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'Jaws'? 'Amityville Horror'? This Is Best Scary Film Set In NY, Report Says (Poll) 'Jaws'? 'Amityville Horror'? This Is Best Scary Film Set In NY, Report Says (Poll)
'Jaws'? 'Amityville Horror'? This Is Best Scary Film Set In NY, Report Says (Poll) You’re gonna need a bigger TV. As another spooky season dawns, eyeballs are once again focused on the cavalcade of ghosts and goblins parading across our screens. One frightful flick in particular seems to have endeared itself to viewers in the Empire State: “Jaws” is considered the best horror movie set in New York, according to Buzzfeed. The 1975 thriller, directed by Steven Spielberg, stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, along with a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a homicidal shark terrorizing beachgoers in the …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Fright Night? Here's Best Horror Film Set In New York, Report Says (Poll) Fright Night? Here's Best Horror Film Set In New York, Report Says (Poll)
Fright Night? Here's Best Horror Film Set In New York, Report Says (Poll) If you’re tired of the same old slasher flicks this spooky season, why not find some horror-spiration right in your own backyard? A good starting place might be the 1968 psychological horror film Rosemary’s Baby, hailed as “the best horror movie set in New York” by The Hard Times. The award-winning film, based on Ira Levin’s 1967 novel of the same, stars Mia Farrow as an expectant wife living in Manhattan who begins to suspect that her neighbors are members of a Satanic cult who have sinister plans for her baby. It was directed by Roman Polanski, whose pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, …

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by Michael Mashburn
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'Amityville Horror' Ghost Hunter To Be Buried In ‘Haunted’ Cemetery 'Amityville Horror' Ghost Hunter To Be Buried In ‘Haunted’ Cemetery
'Amityville Horror' Ghost Hunter To Be Buried In ‘Haunted’ Cemetery Lorraine Rita Moran Warren, renowned ghost hunter and paranormal researcher of "Amityville Horror" fame, will be buried in the "haunted" Fairfield County cemetery at Stepney Village in Monroe, where people have claimed to see a White Lady roaming the grounds. Warren, who died on Thursday, April 18, at her Monroe home at the age of 92, was half of the husband and wife team of Ed and Lorraine Warren, known as the “ Seekers of the Supernatural”. The Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952. Called “ America’s top Ghost hunters” the team was often asked to assis…

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by Kathy Reakes