AMITYVILLE HORROR Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

AMITYVILLE HORROR, THE

(1979, USA)

DIRECTED BY: Stuart Rosenberg

STARRING: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murry Hamilton, John Larch, Natasha Ryan, K. C. Martel, Meeno Peluce, Michael Sacks, Helen Shaver, Amy Wright, Val Avery, Irene Dailey, Marc Vahanian.

What I thought would be a superb haunted house horror tale turns out to be a total bore which is tough to watch and very slow moving. Even with the nice eerie music and menacing presence of the house the movie falls flat. It just doesn't work at all for some reason.

The story concerns a couple played by James Brolin and Margot Kidder who buy a house where the previous family were shotgun executed in. When Brolin and Kidder move into the house with their two children strange occurrences begin to happen. Brolin slowly turns into a madman who likes cutting up firewood with an axe.

A priest played by Rod Steiger seems to encounter endless physical problems with the house that plague him after he enters it only once. From then on he is cursed with different problems. After a lot of awry goings on the family decide to hit the road and leave their belongings behind. What can I say, it's a bore to have to watch this. I didn't enjoy it.

Rating: 1 Skull

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

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