Amityville Horror

[Luv2DriveTT]

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I haven't seen the original, although my understanding is that the two plots are very similar.

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Should be, its based on a true story. I lived 20 mins from that house in real life growing up.

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[whiskeytown]

sorry man....afraid that has fallen by the wayside in recent yrs.

from the Trivia section in the IMDB entry -

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Despite still being promoted as a true story, it is in fact a hoax. Convicted killer Ronald DeFao Jr's attorney William Weber concocted the story with the Lutzes. Weber wanted to use the publicity to get his client a new trial, while George Lutz needed a way to get out of the mortgage due to his failing business. Weber confessed this on a radio show in 1979 and the Lutzes fessed up in 1992.


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and

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In 1995 George and Kathy Lutz admitted, under oath, that their story is a fabrication.


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RB

[mosta]

but there is a real killer, a son into various kinds of trouble who murdered his family, I believe, in that house (I saw it on A&E ther other night).

[Blarg]

Still makes good movie fodder though.

[Eihli]

it has a 5.8 on imdb.... hmmm?