The Amityville Horror taped at crime scene

By tbt* staff report
Published April 13, 2005

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The Amityville Horror The only film opening wide is The Amityville Horror, a remake of the 1979 hit that starred James Brolin and Margot Kidder as a couple creeped out by a haunted house. Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) and Melissa George (TV's Alias) play a recently married couple who move (with her three children from a previous marriage) into a beautiful home on Long Island and start experiencing strange and unsettling phenomena.

Turns out not only was the house the scene of a grisly mass murder, it also is on a site rumored to have been plagued by evil for centuries. The controversial story -- is it true or is it not? -- was directed by first-timer Andrew Douglas. Philip Baker Hall co-stars.