The Amityville Horror

Corrected entry: When Kathy goes to her daughter's window to shut it, the red eyes that appear outside during the dramatic horror effects are too wide apart to be a small child's eyes.

eaglegrad16

Correction: It's the demonic pig-like entity outside (you even lightly hear the sound of a boar snorting), not a little girl's ghost. Hence, the eyes are further apart. But even beyond that, given it's a supernatural, potentially demonic being, real-world logic (such as having a consistent head shape) doesn't necessarily apply anyway.

TedStixon

Correction: What Kathy saw in the window was Jody the pig. (I know it's stupid).

Corrected entry: When Father Bohlen leaves the detective and walks to his car, a crew member in a checked shirt appears behind a bush, attempting to get out of the shot.

Correction: The man in the checked shirt looks to be an extra, a maintenance man working and what he's gathering is an hose pipe. He isn't trying to get out of shot, he is taking his time gathering the hose.

Corrected entry: When there is the shot of the basement door straining on its hinges to open, it is visible that there is no latch on the edge of the door to break out the jamb, or to even hold the door shut.

Correction: While it looks like you're seeing the door straining against a latch that isn't there, what you're actually seeing is the door frame being separated from the wall by the latch. The door is closed and latched and it's the latch that's causing the frame to bulge out like that. Thus, you wouldn't be able to see the latch, since it's "buried" in the frame. Later, after the door has burst open and the cop has arrived and is investigating, the door frame is splintered and loose from the wall.

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, during "the last night", we see that the tree smashes through one of the windows in the attic. Later, when George returns to the house to get the dog, there's an outside shot where both windows are intact. (The famous windows are not on both sides of the house. Only the side facing the water).

Correction: Windows are on both sides. It can be hard to tell though. It just mostly shows the one facing the lake.

Correction: The infamous windows are on one side of the house. Historical fact.

Amy Emerick Tice

Continuity mistake: When the dog is pulling George out of the black muck at the end, he's pulling on a piece of George's shirt. But when it cuts to another angle, the dog turns to run away and the piece of shirt is suddenly gone.

Krista

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Trivia: When James Brolin was offered the role of George Lutz, he was informed that they didn't have a script to give him. James bought a copy of the novel and began to read it. At two o'clock in the morning, while reading a very intense part of the book, a pair of pants that he had hung up earlier fell to the ground causing him to jump in fright. After that, James agreed to do the film.

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Question: What is up with that pig thing in the window? Does it have anything do to do with anything?

Answer: That's Jodie. In the book and the supposed "true" story, the Lutz' daughter said Jodie could appear to her in any form he wanted, but usually looked like a pig.

Answer: According to the book (and you can take that for what it is worth), one of the characters saw a pair of glowing red eyes in a window. Later they went outside and found pig tracks in the snow. That is what this scene is trying to convey.

Guy

Answer: The answer that mentions that the pig thing in the window is supposed to be Jodie is correct. However, in the broader spectrum of things, the appearance or the sounds of animals (squeals, growls, etc.) during a haunting is supposed to mean that the haunting is demonic in nature, which the haunting in this story obviously was.

dewinela

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