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THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

What You Need To Know:

In the new AMITYVILLE HORROR remake, a remarried widow named Kathy, her three children from her previous marriage, and her new husband, George Lutz, move into an old rustic house on Long Island. A year earlier, however, six family members were brutally murdered in that very same house. George begins to act strangely and violently as the ghost of the little girl murdered in the house starts appearing to Kathy’s own little girl, Chelsea. What Kathy and her children don’t realize is that both George and the little girl ghost are under the influence of a malevolent adult ghost in the house, who turns out to be an evil Christian reverend who once tortured American Indians and committed suicide in colonial times.

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR is filled with lots of extreme and scary violence and gore. For example, viewers get the “privilege” of seeing one character splattered with blood from multiple angles. Just as bad is the supernatural confusion in the movie’s occult worldview and the movie’s fictionalized revisionist history about a Christian leader being the source of sinful acts against American Indians. Such violence, spiritual confusion and revisionist, politically correct history is truly abhorrent.

Content:

(OOO, AbAbAb, RHRH, PCPC, C, B, LL, VVV, SS, NN, DD, M) Very strong occult worldview, with very strong anti-religious and anti-Christian content where an evil Christian reverend who has become a demonic ghost is the villain and a Catholic priest is scared and overcome by this demonic ghost, and revisionist, politically correct history where an evil Christian reverend (who may be possessed by a demon or has turned to the “dark side”) in colonial times in New York is responsible for torturing American Indians, as well as some light positive Christian and moral content where people try to do positive things, such as mention prayer in one scene, appeal to God for help at one point and go to a Christian leader for help, but it is mostly ineffectual and ultimately they just run away from evil rather than fight evil with good or by preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as the New Testament tells us to do; 11 obscenities, including some “f” words, seven uses of GD, two light profanities, brief image of maggots behind a wall, boy urinates into toilet, and father starts vomiting often as he comes under the influence of a demonic ghost in a house where terrible evil has occurred; lots of extreme and scary violence and gore includes flashes of blood splattering as man murders a family of six with a shotgun (which inexplicably causes a single hole in the head of the ghost of the little girl he slaughtered) and as another man sees a flashback of an evil reverend slitting his own throat so that his evil spirit can haunt a place forever (this splattering is shown from multiple angles), father threatens family with hatchet, father threatens boy with hatchet while chopping wood, ghosts haunt people and malevolent ghost haunts the ghost of a little girl, bloody ghost faces appear, brief flashes of torture ripping skin, possessed father kills family dog with hatchet, woman hit in stomach with hatchet (but this turns out to be just an evil vision), walls and light switches drip blood, hordes of flies attack Catholic priest and scare him away, teenage girl haunted in closet, ghost lures little girl onto dangerous rooftop, and malevolent ghost grabs ghost of little girl twice; one scene of depicted sex where wife writhes slightly on top of husband, teenage girl teases 12-year-old boy about French kissing, and married couple hints about engaging in sex privately; upper male nudity naturalistically shown, woman’s bare back shown during sex and obscured nudity when naked couple embraces; brief alcohol use; teenage girl smokes marijuana; and, a father goes berserk and parents hire a clearly irresponsible babysitter.

More Detail:

Many modern atheist philosophers believe that talking about the supernatural is an absurd, meaningless “language game” because the supernatural cannot be tested by science or their own narrow, allegedly empirical method of testing truth claims. This is true, however, only if you are an irrational, narrow-minded atheist like them or if you display the kind of supernatural and moral confusion that occurs in the new remake of the 1979 horror movie, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.

In this remake, Kathy Lutz’s three children from her previous marriage are haunted by the death of their father. Her new husband, George, gets along with her two younger kids, Chelsea and Michael, but 12-year-old Billy is still resentful about the new marriage.

A year after six family members are murdered in an old rustic house on Long Island, the Lutz’s move into the house. George begins to act strangely and violently as the ghost of the little girl murdered previously in the house starts appearing to little Chelsea. What Kathy and her children don’t realize is that both George and the little girl ghost are under the influence of a malevolent adult ghost in the house, who turns out to be an evil Christian reverend who once tortured American Indians and committed suicide in colonial times.

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR is filled with lots of extreme and scary violence and gore. For example, in one scene, viewers get the “privilege” of seeing one character splattered with blood from multiple angles.

Just as bad is the movie’s supernatural confusion, occult worldview and politically correct revisionist history. Although the evil Christian reverend haunting the house may or may not be possessed by Satanic forces, the movie does not make clear that the only way that can possibly happen is if the Reverend renounced his faith and became fascinated with the occult or with evil. Surely, however, although very few, if any Christians are perfect, the historical record shows that it was not a belief in Christianity that killed so many American Indians in the New World when the Europeans came. It was disease, human sinfulness and the immorality of the evil paganism and theological syncretism infecting many Indian tribes as well as many European settlers. Therefore, to make a Christian reverend from colonial times the source of the evil in this movie is historically offensive. It is prejudiced and abhorrent.

The movie’s strong occult worldview also shows a Catholic priest being scared and overcome by the occult force controlling the evil house. Furthermore, the Lutz family never really tries confronting the evil in the house with good or with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as the New Testament tells us to do. Eventually, they just run away from the evil, to escape it. This does not make for a very satisfying ending.

Now, about those atheists and their narrow-minded philosophies.

Supernatural truth claims, like “God exists” or “Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose from the dead,” can be tested by using the basic laws of logic that God has instilled in our minds, including the most simple minded and mentally handicapped among us, and by the historical testimony of real miracles and real historical encounters with God that are depicted in the Bible. Thus, we can know that God exists and that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead, because we can use the divine logic in our minds and spirits to read about and study the hundreds of historical, eyewitness testimonies in the Bible about people talking to God and about God and Jesus Christ performing miracles and acting in history. We can also use the divine logic in our minds and spirits to learn and study God’s revelation about Himself in the Bible and Jesus Christ’s revelation about Himself to the people of His day and to the writers of the New Testament in the Bible. The narrow-minded, nonsensical philosophies about logic, history, evidence, nature, theology, and Jesus Christ of the atheists are no match for God’s revelation about logic, history, evidence, nature, theology, and Jesus Christ in His Word.

Thus, we can know for sure what Julius Caesar taught and did by reading and studying ancient texts and we can know for sure what Jesus Christ taught and did by reading and studying the ancient texts of the New Testament documents. In fact, it’s probably true that we can be more certain about the truth of what Jesus taught and did than we can about what Julius Caesar taught and did. The evidence in your New Testament Bibles is that much stronger, as is the evidence of external sources that mention ancient historical facts about Jesus Christ and his followers.

In other words, atheist philosophers are just as confused about the supernatural as THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. It is up to us to help them overcome their confusion by lovingly, but firmly, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and also by patiently overcoming their objections and answering their questions.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.