Amityville 3-D

Amityville 3-D (1983)

Inside these walls, nothing is impossible... except survival.

To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.

Date of release
1983-11-18
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (261)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror
Director
Richard Fleischer
Collection
The Amityville Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Jersey

Amityville 3-D is a 1983 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark, Lori Loughlin, and Meg Ryan. It’s an international co-production between Mexico and the United States. The third film based in the Amityville Horror series, it was written by William Wales, a pseudonym for David Ambrose. It was one of a spate of 3D films released in the early 1980s, and was the only Orion Pictures film shot in the format.

Production

Due to a lawsuit filed against Orion Pictures by George and Kathy Lutz, whose claims of supernatural occurrences served as the basis for the book The Amityville Horror and its 1979 film adaptation, Amityville 3-D was not initially billed as a sequel to the previous installment, Amityville II: The Possession (1982), and the name Lutz is not mentioned in the film.

The court ultimately sided with Orion Pictures in the case, declaring that the Lutz family could not claim the word Amityville, the name of the Long Island town in which the alleged supernatural occurrences took place. Despite this, the film was still not promoted as a sequel to the previous two films.

Director Richard Fleischer, known for the films Fantastic Voyage (1966), 10 Rillington Place (1971), and Soylent Green (1973), was hired to direct. Screenwriter David Ambrose wrote the film under the pseudonym William Wales. The character of John Baxter was based on Stephen Kaplan, a paranormal investigator who was attempting to disprove the Lutz's story as a hoax.

Amityville 3-D was an international co-production between the United States and Mexico, like the previous installment Amityville II: The Possession. Exterior scenes were shot at the same house in Toms River, New Jersey where the first two films in the Amityville series where filmed, which closely resembled the infamous house in Amityville, New York. A house nearby was employed for the exterior of Nancy Baxter's house.

Amityville 3-D was filmed using ArriVision, a camera operating system used for several other 3D films of the period, including Friday the 13th Part III (1982) and Jaws 3-D (1983).

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