I prefer the remake of this film to be honest. Although I do enjoy this classic version too. The acting seems somewhat better in the remake and obviously so do the effects.

Yes, classic but oh my... Bad acting galore and just not scary. After someone said something I usually felt like asking, what? That made no sense. So I watched it because it is a classic but glad it is over.

A divisive classic. And I get it. It gets very silly (the big pig with red eyes, lol) but I love 70s horror. What can I say.

"The Amityville Horror" was one of the movies that I avoided watching through my teenage years. After being damned near scarred for life by seeing "The Exorcist" as a pre-teener, I personally avoided Horror movies until climbing into my early twenties. As I started facing the scary, never-to-be-seen Horror movies of my juvenile years, I somehow missed this one, which was avoided because it was gasp!!!...TRUE!!! Turns out, I didn't miss anything. This was very disappointing. On the subject of "if you can't say anything nice...", I did like Margo Kidder as Kathleen Lutz. Other than that, I found the whole movie to be disjointed and remarkably NOT scary. Its look is dated and it gets extremely slow in spots. It is not a Horror classic and its legend lives only due to its close proximity to "The Exorcist", "The Omen" and "The Shining".

Based off of a book of questionable thing if it genuine or not, it’s the original of what latter would spawn many Amityville horror adaptation. It’s your average haunted house movie with horror tropes you could think of. Rod Steiger is quite over the top acting and James Brolin and Margot Kidder are fine in their acting. It does have some unsettling moments such as that Jodie scene and later near end but yeah rest of the movie is ehh meh but bit enjoyable at times.