Tag: The Amityville Horror
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The True Story Behind ‘Hereditary’s Occult Themes
Ari Aster’s 2018 Hereditary is a powerful and affecting horror movie with a solid, albeit terrifying foundation in supernatural realism, demonology, and the occult. In this film, Aster uses horror tropes as a tool to examine fears about motherhood, mental health, and the impact of grief. Many horror movies have drawn on real-life cases to…
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‘The Nun 2’ Trailer Teases Taissa Farmiga’s Return to ‘The Conjuring’ Universe
New Line Cinema has released the trailer for its latest “Conjuring” project, “The Nun 2.” The sequel, starring Taissa Farmiga, is set to premiere in theaters on Sept. 8.The film begins in 1956 after a priest is viciously murdered in France. According to the film’s official logline, “‘The Nun 2’ follows Sister Irene (Farmiga) as…
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The True Story Behind The Amityville Murders To Be Explored In Epix Docuseries
Jay Anson’s 1977 book “The Amityville Horror” has yielded over 30 theatrical and direct-to-video films since it was first published, starting with the original 1979 feature starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, and Rod Steiger. That’s not even counting “The Conjuring” movie series, which centers on fictionalized versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real-life paranormal…
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‘The Grudge’: Film Review
Twenty years ago, a new wave of Japanese supernatural gothic thrillers brought fresh tropes of dread to a genre that was sorely in need of them. The sinister intersection of technology and the afterlife; the presence of ghosts that looked like rotting versions of demons out of Japanese folklore; the assertion of a feminine rage…
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Time For Yet Another ‘Amityville Horror’ Movie, Because People Love Stories About Long Island
To paraphrase the original film, for god’s sake, stop making Amityville Horror movies. When you include direct-to-video titles, there have been 23 films based on The Amityville Horror. And if you add documentaries to the mix, that number gets even higher. The story has been told, and told again, and again, since the 1970s. Surely,…
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Margot Kidder Dies: ‘Superman’s Lois Lane & ‘Amityville Horror’ Star Was 69
Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the 1970s and ’80s Superman movies and starred in many other films including The Amityville Horror before struggling with mental illness in her later years, has died. She was 69. The Franzen-Davis Funeral Home in Livingston, MT, said she died Sunday but did not give…
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Amityville Rights Holders Look To “Get Out” Of The Weinstein Co. Bankruptcy Sale
The Lutz family, whose experiences in the haunted house inspired The Amityville Horror book and motion pictures, is looking to get out of The Weinstein Company’s bankruptcy sale. The family’s Amityville Enterprises says Dimension Films’ option to develop motion pictures or TV shows based their encounters with paranormal activity in the Long Island home expired…