★★★★★RELEASED OUT NOW! 1979 | 15 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD Director Stuart Rosenberg Cast James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud
BLU-RAY DEBUT In 1979 The Amityville Horror arrived in cinemas pre-loaded with its own legend: an allegedly true tale of a Long Island family compelled to flee a demonically infested fixer-upper.
If the passing decades have exposed the grifting BS behind that cultural phenomenon, then this new 4K remaster reveals a film that still has the power to unsettle, despite bland, TV-level visuals and a tendency to tip into schlock. For all the malevolent sash windows and Satanic plumbing on display, it’s the image of the house itself that endures, gable windows glowing like the eyes of a Halloween pumpkin as it presides over an all-out assault on the American family unit.