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'Amityville' remake takes gore to the top
By Times Staff
Published April 18, 2005
The Amityville Horror returned from the dead with a vengeance, with the gory update of the 1970s fright flick taking in $23.3-million to top the weekend box office.
The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, the African desert adventure Sahara, slipped to second place with $13.1-million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Amityville Horror stars Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George as a couple tormented by visions and voices in their new home, the scene of a grisly mass murder a year earlier.
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