"The Amityville Horror" is a true remake, sticking closely to the characters and story of the 1979 horror film about the ultimate real-estate nightmare. Despite a lack of major names, the modestly budgeted film should enjoy a decent theatrical payoff and perhaps even greater success in ancillary markets. The book purports to tell the true-life story of the Lutz family that moved into a large Dutch Colonial home in Amityville, Long Island, in 1975, a year after a young man went berserk there and killed his entire family with a rifle.

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