The Amityville Horror
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
A family moves into a new house in Amityville, N.Y.. They soon discover that the house is already inhabited by evil spirits. After 28 days of terror, the family must flee their home. Adaptation of Jay Anson's bestseller based on a disputed true story.
Stuart Rosenberg
Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director. He studied Irish literature at New York University, and began working as an apprentice film editor while in graduate school.whose motion pictures include Cool Hand Luke (1967), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). He was noted for his work with actor Paul Newman.
