Sometimes all it takes is to cut out a few minutes of run time to allow a remake to compete with an original. The 2005 remake of the spirited 1979 horror hit “The Amityville Horror” fits perfectly into this category. Running only 90 minutes rather than the original 117, this remake is able to maintain its suspense and appeal to the new, more desensitized, viewer. Main character George Lutz (Ryan Reynolds) is more intense and more believable than the originator of the role as a man who is being driven into homicidal insanity by the evil spirits that dwell from within the house his family has recently purchased. Why was this house so inexpensive? Because it is a horror-haven for the ages, complete with suspenseful twists and turns and horrifying walled-in secrets. The remake more than does the original justice; it rebuilds the legacy of the Amityville house and treats viewers with a continuous voyage into the pits of hell, which are conveniently located within the house’s basement.