It is one of horror’s most classic premises: “George and Kathy Lutz moved into 112 Ocean Avenue on December 18. Twenty-eight days later, they fled in terror.” We speak, of course, of Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror. If there’s one good thing about the less-than-successful film remake starring Ryan Reynolds, it’s that its 2005 release … Continue reading The Amityville Horror / The Amityville Curse: Fact & Fiction
Fact or fiction or somewhere in between, the box-office smash The Amityville Horror and the Jay Anson best-seller from which it came are responsible for our nation’s collective consciousness surrounding the multiple murders in one Long Island home on Nov. 13, 1974, and the lingering phenomena reported to haunt it ever since. Among that “ever … Continue reading My Amityville Horror (2012)
Hard to believe, but until the iPhone opened the floodgates for anyone to make a movie, we had the spread of Amityville Horror sequels pretty well contained. Of those pre-remake efforts, none is widely considered great, but none is worse than The Amityville Curse. Made in Canada and supposedly based on Hans Holzer’s book of … Continue reading The Amityville Curse (1990)
Which is harder to swallow: a dollhouse being haunted or a man moving his wife into a home she’s never seen? Either would be unthinkable, yet Amityville Dollhouse gives you both, God love it. (Look, after a lamp, a clock and a mirror, a dollhouse isn’t much of a stretch, but surprising your spouse with … Continue reading Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
Amityville: A New Generation, the seventh in the Amityville Horror series, takes the original film’s tagline of “For God’s sake, get out!” to heart, transferring the devilish deeds from the suburbs to the streets — to be specific, the seediest Los Angeles has to offer. There, an ornately (and garishly) framed mirror has found its … Continue reading Amityville: A New Generation (1993)