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The Amityville Horror (1979) [R]

Release Date:
July 27, 1979

Original Title:
The Amityville Horror

Alternate Titles:
A Cidade do Horror
Horror em Amityville
Terror en Amityville
Ужас Амитивилля

Genres:
Horror

Production Companies:
American International Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16  GB: 15  IE: 15  JP: R18+  US: R 

Runtime: 118

For God's sake, get out!

Overview from TheMovieDB

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Production

Art Direction:
Kim Swados

Director:
Stuart Rosenberg

Director of Photography:
Fred J. Koenekamp

Editor:
Robert Brown

Executive Producer:
Samuel Z. Arkoff

Hair Designer:
Christine Lee

Makeup Artist:
Stephen Abrums

Novel:
Jay Anson

Original Music Composer:
Lalo Schifrin

Producer:
Elliot Geisinger
Ronald Saland

Screenplay:
Sandor Stern

Second Assistant Director:
Benjamin Rosenberg

Set Decoration:
Robert R. Benton

Special Effects:
Dell Rheaume

Stunt Coordinator:
Roger Creed

Stunt Double:
Brian Bruderlin

Stunt Driver:
Conrad E. Palmisano

Visual Effects:
William Cruse

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