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Released
1979 · FILM

The Amityville Horror

A newlywed couple moves into an affordable Victorian home hoping to start fresh, only to battle a malevolent presence that turns their dream house into a deadly nightmare.

“For God's sake, get out!”

Directed by
Stuart Rosenberg
Written by
Sandor Stern, Jay Anson
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
118 min
Horror
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

The Lutz family—George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children—moves into a Victorian mansion in Amityville, Long Island, a quiet coastal town. The house, unexpectedly affordable and seemingly ideal, harbors a dark history. Soon after their arrival, each family member begins experiencing strange and increasingly violent visions and impulses.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert BrownShot by Fred J KoenekampScored by Lalo Schifrin

Box Office

1979 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 18× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$86.4M

Budget$4.7M
Worldwide gross$86.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $86.4M — 100% of worldwide · International: $488 (0%)

Opening weekend: $7.8M — 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 748 theaters

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Also known as

  • Amityville Horrorde
  • Amityville : La Maison du diablefr

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