A pack of flies swarm all over Father Delaney --- then again, given Rod Steiger's howling performance as the priest, it could just be that the flies like reeking ham.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 12, 2023

The Amityville Horror is a quintessential haunted house film...One of the film’s challenges is the workman-like direction from Stuart Rosenberg and lackadaisical editing by Robert Brown, but Brolin and Kidder deliver truly committed performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The extended climax falls especially flat...

| Feb 28, 2020

There's an excessive accumulation of special effects that are almost always forced in order to scare the audience, but they end up being hilarious. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 12, 2019

A chilling horror wrapped up in a disturbing family drama, in spite of its dubious true crime roots.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2019

[The Amityville Horror] begins with the promising premise of a haunted house in the suburbs (poltergeists in the barbecue pit?) and quickly degenerates into a display of pretentious camera angles.

| Mar 20, 2019

The family sticks around to sample the entire range of demon poltergeist effects, while Rod Steiger, a priest who tries to help, is laid up in bed, perhaps due to a chronic case of overacting.

| Mar 20, 2019

Although bafflingly a box-office hit, director Stuart Rosenberg's tepid chiller never matches the flesh-crawling terror contained in Anson's book.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2019

The film's reputation exceeds its achievements, and the "true story" angle has been vigorously disputed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2019

A scary movie that does not frighten or surprise you is as bad as a comedy that is not funny, and there's nothing here to have even the most mousish ducking under covers.

| Mar 20, 2019

[A] goose-pimply haunted house yarn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2019

The Amityville Horror is just another indication that the trail left by The Exorcist has now become too faint to be worth following.

| Mar 20, 2019

The Amityville Horror is a horror. What is supposed to be the true story of a young couple driven from their dream house by demons turns out to be nothing more than a rip-off, and a tedious one at that.

| Mar 20, 2019

Overall, The Amityville Horror will undoubtedly convince audiences that something did happen in Amityville -- but will leave them wondering what the big fuss was all about.

| Mar 19, 2019

Brolin and Kidder carry the film, their conviction encouraging you to believe even if you don't.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 8, 2018

'70s horror movie hasn't aged well; violence and peril.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2017

It has scattered moments all throughout that acquit themselves well as, if not top-shelf horror, then at least second-from-the-top.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2017

Its pacing is off, there are too many go-nowhere subplots, & it seems just to come to a clunking halt at the end [but] the film's lack of commitment to any single reading of its narrative architecture is precisely what makes it so uncanny.

| Jun 26, 2017

It was popular at the box-office, but was unremarkable as a horror film

| Original Score: C | May 4, 2011

An astonishing number of fumbled frissons

| Aug 28, 2009