The Amityville Horror - in which a true life horror story gets actually nicer when made into a Hollywood movie. Before the movie starts, George Lutz married a nice Margot Kidder, named Kathy, and she already had a bunch of kids, but they seem to get along okay. Then, at the beginning of the movie, this young guy goes crazy and shoots his entire family in their beds, spookily, none of them are awakened or disturbed by the gunshots (ghosts!) and the scene is over. Back to the Lutzes... They move into a new, huge house, and the realtor has disclosed the gruesome history of the house to the Lutzes, we saw it, but they didn't care, and they moved their children into an affordable home, tainted with murder! And evil. So, this is the haunting movie of all hauntings. And I'll try not to mix it up with the Conjuring. So, George Lutz is always chilly, and things the solution is more firewood. The daughter makes a ghost friend, and no one thinks anything of it. While the family is outside, a priest comes by, per Kathy's Catholic request, to bless the house. They are all out back playing, so he just lets himself in, and gets to work. First, he gets swarmed by some bloat flies, and he can't open a window. And then an evil fucking voice tells him to Get Out! So, he dips, but he doesn't give up, and he keeps trying to get in touch with the Lutzes to warn them. So, that's like, one of the best parts of the movie, is the reach of the evil to Father Delaney, how he never gives up, and keeps hope ongoing. The other smart thing the movie does, is to keep the evil hidden from Kathy Lutz, so George thinks he's going insane, and they don't have enough reason to move out. Also, people in town keep doing double takes when they meet George, because he looks JUST like the guy who killed his family.
The evil won't let up, and soon George is obsessed with chopping wood and never letting the fire in the fireplace go out. While the parents are out one night, the ghost who befriended the daughter locks the babysitter in the closet, like, for hours, and her hands are all bloody from banging on the closet door. The creepiness keeps escalating, until the final night, when the walls start bleeding, and the evil in the basement tries to eat them. They finally get out of the house, but George goes back for the dog! Everyone lives, and no one is emotionally abused, or tricked into living in a house known in the Satanic community for its evil powers.
PS The re-make sucks.
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