The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror (1979)
AIP Production #7904 

Jeff and Cheryl watch the housing market rise and fall thanks to a pesky demon incursion in The Amityville Horror. 

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg 
Screenplay by Sandor Stern 
Based on the book The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson 
Produced by Elliot Geisinger and Ronald Saland for American International Pictures 

Starring: 
James Brolin as George Lutz 
Margot Kidder as Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Lutz 
Rod Steiger as Father Francis ‘Frank’ Delaney 
Don Stroud as Father Bolen 
Murray Hamilton as Father Ryan 
John Larch as Father Nuncio 
Natasha Ryan as Amy Lutz 
K. C. Martel as Greg Lutz 
Meeno Peluce as Matt Lutz 
Michael Sacks as Jeff 
Helen Shaver as Carolyn 
Amy Wright as Jackie, The Babysitter 
Val Avery as Sergeant Gionfriddo 
Elsa Raven as Mrs. Townsend 
Irene Dailey as Aunt Helena 
Marc Vahanian as Jimmy 
Ellen Saland as Jimmy’s Wife 
Eddie Barth as Agucci 
James Tolkan as Coroner 

Produced and released under American International Pictures

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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)