The Amityville Horror (1979)
There’s some 1970s-era cheese in The Amityville Horror, but it’s still one of the OG haunted house movies and a must-see. Based on a true story, the Lutz family moves into a New York home where Ronald DeFeo Jr. slaughtered his entire family. The famous arched windows truly look like eyes, as if the house is sizing up its next victims.
Satanic occurrences plague the new residents, such as being swarmed by flies, waking up at the same early hour that the DeFeos were murdered, and seeing the piercing eyes of a pig outside the second-story window. The Amityville Horror makes the menacing assertion that the dark events tied to the land where our homes are built, as well as the history within a house’s walls, can manifest in evil ways.
