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			The Amityville Horror 1979  (5/10)
 
 I don't like assessing films based on second viewings, as I think the 1st viewing is part of the quality.  But I saw this last as a child, and a lot of films don't stand up well to a re-review as an adult.  Amityville was not an exception.
 
 It was quite slow moving until the last 30 mins. Up until that point, I didn't find the story that interesting, and the characters seemed rather flat.  This time around, the last 30 mins, and the ending was a bit anticlimactic, especially in the sense the going-ons appeared rather disjointed and arbitrary from what had happened through the first 2/3rds. It didn't retain the creepiness and scariness I remembered as a kid.
 
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