I've been telling ghost stories to my daughter and her friend for the last hour, spawned by the ads for this recent remake. We looked up the story on the net and I was unpleasantly shocked to find that it was deemed a hoax. I desperately want to believe this story so I kept looking until I came up with the responses to the debunkers. Apparently the public's desire to believe this tale is the only thing that has kept if from being officially labeled a hoax.
I am definately going to see the film, though I'll probably wait for it on pay-per-view. It draws crowds like the Titanic.
Amityville Horror/Hoax
Amityville Horror/Hoax
koan wrote: I've been telling ghost stories to my daughter and her friend for the last hour, spawned by the ads for this recent remake. We looked up the story on the net and I was unpleasantly shocked to find that it was deemed a hoax. I desperately want to believe this story so I kept looking until I came up with the responses to the debunkers. Apparently the public's desire to believe this tale is the only thing that has kept if from being officially labeled a hoax.
I am definately going to see the film, though I'll probably wait for it on pay-per-view. It draws crowds like the Titanic.
GET OUT! Whadduya mean a hoax, Dafoe was not real and did not kill his family?? Really??? I am so dense.
I am definately going to see the film, though I'll probably wait for it on pay-per-view. It draws crowds like the Titanic.
GET OUT! Whadduya mean a hoax, Dafoe was not real and did not kill his family?? Really??? I am so dense.
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Amityville Horror/Hoax
I remember when the first movie came out they said it was real-what changed? I saw this one-some parts are similar to old one and others they took a lot of liberties and changed a bit. Major thing I did not like was the actress that plays the mom was not very good-drove me nuts. Guess i had better look up on internet about the reality of the story.
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I checked online and all kinds of sites. I did read the interview from Movieweb talking with George Lutz which George says many liberties were taken with both movies-actually all of them. He says to B.Alan Orange of movieweb that half the stuff in both movies was nothing close to the truth as far as his wood cutting, the basement room, lots of other stuff. This new movie exploits thing more-they have a law suit pending so he could not comment too much.I thought it very odd of many of the changes in the new film-much scarier in parts which makes me think "Hollywood" has done it again-we show it-people think it is fact! The denials from that city and from Hollywood are just that-denials-if they didn't do that would lose $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on the film. I myself think the city loves the attention-brings in Lookie Loos that bring in money in hotels, eating places even gas pumps! Just my opinion tho!
Amityville Horror/Hoax
I too remember when it first came out and although it seemed totally unbelievable, I thought `Well, stranger things have occured...it could be true`. Then I heard that the family had been totally broke till they sold their story and made zillions to clear all their debts and become rich so I was less inclined to believe it (then again, just because they were in debt and have since become rich doesn`t necessarily and absolutely mean that it DIDN`T actually happen!
Amityville Horror/Hoax
Ex-resident of house debunks much of Amityville "horror"
By Jennifer Smith
As a child living in the house made famous by "The Amityville Horror," he saw a menacing, shadowy figure approach him, and he remembers the night his bedroom window kept banging open and shut.
But forget the green slime dripping from the walls: Many of the events in "The Amityville Horror" books and movies were exaggerated to the point of fiction, said Christopher Quaratino, the only one of three children who lived in the allegedly haunted house to speak publicly about it.
"So far there's been three representations of what happened in that house," Quaratino said. "And not one of them" †not the book, not the movie, nor a remake released last month †"is accurate."
Quaratino was 7 when his mother, Kathy Lutz, and her new husband moved the family into the Amityville, N.Y., house where Ronald DeFeo had killed six family members with a rifle the previous fall. The family moved out after 28 days.
Now 37 and living in Scottsdale, Ariz., Quaratino maintains the haunting was not a hoax. But he insists his stepfather at the time, George Lutz, brought the troubles on himself by dabbling in the occult and then amplified what paranormal incidents did occur to profit off books and movies about the house.
"He's a professional showman, in my opinion," Quaratino said of Lutz, whom he said he clashed with many times before leaving home at 16. "I just feel as though we're being exploited."
Lutz sued his former stepson in Nevada district court in 2003 over what Quaratino said are allegations of trademark infringement and fraud relating to a future Amityville movie planned by Lutz. The case is open; a counterclaim filed by Quaratino was dismissed in January.
Lutz, 58, who lives in Las Vegas, did not return calls seeking comment. He and Kathy Lutz, who died last year, divorced in 1988.
Quaratino's brother, Daniel Lutz, did not return a call seeking comment. His sister, Melissa, could not be located.
According to Quaratino, when the family moved into the house in 1975, George Lutz was "extremely curious of everything paranormal" and tried to summon supernatural beings by chanting.
"I don't know that I'd call it black magic, but it was ... a way to call up spirits," he said.
Some of the alleged incidents detailed in "The Amityville Horror" book †such as unseen forces ripping the front door from its hinges †never occurred, Quaratino said.
But he insists he did have run-ins with the paranormal, including the time he saw a presence "as definite as a shadow" in the shape of a man that moved toward him and then dissipated.
Quaratino said he wants to set the record straight from Lutz's version. "He points his finger at the house and says there's something evil there," he said. "Fingers should be pointed at what he had done. ... He's a perpetrator and an instigator."
By Jennifer Smith
As a child living in the house made famous by "The Amityville Horror," he saw a menacing, shadowy figure approach him, and he remembers the night his bedroom window kept banging open and shut.
But forget the green slime dripping from the walls: Many of the events in "The Amityville Horror" books and movies were exaggerated to the point of fiction, said Christopher Quaratino, the only one of three children who lived in the allegedly haunted house to speak publicly about it.
"So far there's been three representations of what happened in that house," Quaratino said. "And not one of them" †not the book, not the movie, nor a remake released last month †"is accurate."
Quaratino was 7 when his mother, Kathy Lutz, and her new husband moved the family into the Amityville, N.Y., house where Ronald DeFeo had killed six family members with a rifle the previous fall. The family moved out after 28 days.
Now 37 and living in Scottsdale, Ariz., Quaratino maintains the haunting was not a hoax. But he insists his stepfather at the time, George Lutz, brought the troubles on himself by dabbling in the occult and then amplified what paranormal incidents did occur to profit off books and movies about the house.
"He's a professional showman, in my opinion," Quaratino said of Lutz, whom he said he clashed with many times before leaving home at 16. "I just feel as though we're being exploited."
Lutz sued his former stepson in Nevada district court in 2003 over what Quaratino said are allegations of trademark infringement and fraud relating to a future Amityville movie planned by Lutz. The case is open; a counterclaim filed by Quaratino was dismissed in January.
Lutz, 58, who lives in Las Vegas, did not return calls seeking comment. He and Kathy Lutz, who died last year, divorced in 1988.
Quaratino's brother, Daniel Lutz, did not return a call seeking comment. His sister, Melissa, could not be located.
According to Quaratino, when the family moved into the house in 1975, George Lutz was "extremely curious of everything paranormal" and tried to summon supernatural beings by chanting.
"I don't know that I'd call it black magic, but it was ... a way to call up spirits," he said.
Some of the alleged incidents detailed in "The Amityville Horror" book †such as unseen forces ripping the front door from its hinges †never occurred, Quaratino said.
But he insists he did have run-ins with the paranormal, including the time he saw a presence "as definite as a shadow" in the shape of a man that moved toward him and then dissipated.
Quaratino said he wants to set the record straight from Lutz's version. "He points his finger at the house and says there's something evil there," he said. "Fingers should be pointed at what he had done. ... He's a perpetrator and an instigator."