The Amityville Horror, a horror movie based on the infamous real-life story, has become a franchise and an influence on modern horror greats (and not-so-greats). But it has left a strange legacy.

Question: When is a movie franchise not really a franchise? Answer: when it’s the “Amityville” franchise. Almost 50 years after the headline-grabbing DeFeo murders at 112 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, the ...

LOS ANGELES — Lalo Schifrin, the six-time Oscar nominee and prolific composer best known for his Grammy-winning “Mission: Impossible” theme, has died. He was 93. Schifrin died Thursday morning at a ...

The recent news of The Amityville Horrorfranchise being rebooted via Amazon and MGM Studios has had a somewhat mixed reaction. The announcement of director David F. Sandberg (Shazam!, Lights Out, ...

Now considered one of the most compelling and atmospheric horror films of the 1970s, "The Amityville Horror" tells the allegedly true (although how true is up for debate) story of a family that moves ...

Have you ever wondered why there are so many different horror movies out there with the word "Amityville" in the title? Of course, they're all a callback to the original 1979 film, The Amityville ...