The Amityville Horror - Eternal Allegiance

Dracko · 01-06-2005, 07:01 PM

Another remake, yes. Personally, I LOVE remakes so I cant wait. I loved the original, scared the shit out of me when I was a kid so Im deing to see what they add to the remake. The house was changed, they still kept the roof and the two windows that made the original house iconic. So obviously, they will change things. Im ok with that. For those of you who dont know what the story is about...

On November 14, 1974, police received a frantic phone call that led them to a nightmarish crime scene at the Defeo residence in Amityville, Long Island - an entire family had been slaughtered in their beds. In the days that followed, Ronald Defeo confessed to methodically shooting his parents and four siblings while they slept, claiming "voices" in the house drove him to commit the grisly murders. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into the house thinking it would be their dream home. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur to the family as George was plagued by nightmarish visions and haunting voices from the evil presence still lurking within the residence. 28 days after moving in, the Lutzes abandoned the home - lucky to escape with their lives.

It stars the VERY HOT Ryan Reynolds (this man is GORGEOUS), fresh from "Blade: Trinity", Melissa George, Jimmy Bennett, Rachel Nichols, Philip Baker-Hall, Jesse James, Chloe Moretz. Directed by Andrew Douglas and Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller. Written by Scott Kosar.

Distributor: MGM
Release Date: April 15th, 2005
Official Site: www.AmityvilleHorrorMovie.com

FantaOrSprite · 01-06-2005, 07:49 PM

Allright first I'm humping your signature. Love it <33

Second RYAN REYNOLDS!! I adore him. I never saw the first movie because its the type to keep me up all night. But I watched some A&E biography thing on the boy who shot and killed his parents and siblings. Boy that was creepy.

They've been doing some GREAT horror movie remakes latley (The Ring, The Grudge, Texas Chainsaw Massacure, and especially Dawn of the Dead) so I hope they do a good job on this one.

Heather_ea · 01-06-2005, 08:42 PM

Being a EXTREME Horror Movie Buff, I'm automatically skeptical about this. The original can be classified by some as a classic. And I'm not much for remakes.

MoonBerry · 01-07-2005, 10:07 AM

Omg that movie scarred me for life. I won't be seeing this remake lol.

Nanny · 01-07-2005, 01:28 PM

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS. The original, back when I was nine years old, scared me so much I couldn't watch all of it. (It's laughable now, but back then... holy shit)

What gets me is that they're still advertising it as a true story, but it wasn't. It was later found to be lies from the Lutz family.

Lenghthen · 01-07-2005, 03:22 PM

Which part are you referring to as being lies, Swany?

Nanny · 01-07-2005, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by Ashleigh
Which part are you referring to as being lies, Swany?

I'm going to go ahead and put this post in spoiler tags for everybody. It's not really a spoiler, but you might enjoy the movie better if you waited to read it.

Spoiler!

The whole story was a lie. The Lutz' and the author of the book were sued for it, too. I did a book report on it in 9th Grade and I found article after article about it being fake.

Here's just part of one of the articles I've found:

Kaplan had discovered that the “Amityville Horror” was pure invention. In 1979, a lawyer named William Weber confessed to his part in the hoax during a paranormal radio show hosted by author Joel Martin. Weber had been the lawyer for convicted killer Ronald DeFeo and he admitted that he and George Lutz had concocted the story of the haunting over a few bottles of wine. Weber’s motive was to get a new trial for DeFeo, using a “Devil made him do it” defense. According to Weber, Lutz merely wanted to get out from under a mortgage that he couldn’t afford. His business was in trouble and he needed a scheme to bail him out.

Kaplan found ample proof, outside of the glaring confession, that the story was a hoax. He gained access to the house on many occasions and found that the so-called “Red Room”, where the book claimed occult ceremonies took place, was nothing more than a small pipe well that gave access to them if they needed to be repaired. No “demonic face” had ever appeared on the bricks inside of the fireplace. He also noted that the original front door of the house (blown off its hinges in the book) was still in place and intact. In addition, he found a writer for the local newspaper that had also been suspicious of the story. After some searching, the columnist discovered that the Lutz’s had returned the day after “fleeing” from the house to hold a garage sale. He also charged that during their “28-day nightmare” that never once called the police for assistance, something that would have been commonly done under the circumstances. The list of things that did not happen in the house went on and on and to Kaplan (and to most everyone who listened to his rational arguments), the evidence for an “Amityville Hoax” was overwhelming.

Jim and Barbara Cromarty, who later moved into the house, also maintained that it was not haunted. Because of the problems they had experienced with the curiosity-seekers, they sued the hardcover and paperback publishers of the “Amityville Horror”, as well as Jay Anson and George and Kathy Lutz. They stated that the entire case had been a put-on from the beginning and it had “blighted their lives”. The suit was later settled with the new occupants for an undisclosed amount.

Full story: http://www.prairieghosts.com/amityville.html

So the basis behind the story (the murder case that occured prior to the Lutz's moving in) was true, but anything else was all hogwash.

Lenghthen · 01-07-2005, 07:40 PM

Ohhhh. Thanks for explaining that to me and for the link.

<3

Dracko · 01-07-2005, 09:36 PM

True or false, it still made a good fucking scary movie. Thanks for the info Swany, I had no idea.

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Originally posted by RaInBoW_bRiTe
Allright first I'm humping your signature. Love it <33

Second RYAN REYNOLDS!! I adore him. I never saw the first movie because its the type to keep me up all night. But I watched some A&E biography thing on the boy who shot and killed his parents and siblings. Boy that was creepy.

They've been doing some GREAT horror movie remakes latley (The Ring, The Grudge, Texas Chainsaw Massacure, and especially Dawn of the Dead) so I hope they do a good job on this one.

I agree, all those remakes were fantastic. I almost love the remakes more than the originals. lol They did a really good job. Im praying they do a good job on this one. Just from watching the trailor, it looks promising.

You stay back whore, Ryan is mine... lol. You should really see the original, its pretty good. When I was a kid, it scared the bejesus out of me but I saw it not to long ago on TNT I think, which sorta sucks. All the good parts were edited out. Im thinking about buying the special edition gift set DVD coming out in 3 months. Which brings the original "Amityville Horror", the sequel "Amityville II: The Possession" and "Amityville 3-D" (I havent seen those). But Im not big on sequels so I might hold off and just get the original by itself.

As to my sigg, Thank you! I made this blend almost a month ago but now that I look at it, it might be a bit blurry.

Nanny · 01-07-2005, 10:01 PM

Ugh, scary as hell. After I'd seen it for the first time... well, the first half (I ran away when the babysitter got locked in the closet) when I went to bed, I stared at my bedroom window and kept imagining it morphing into one of the attic windows from the Amityville house, like my house was the Amityville house in disguise. Creeped me right the eff out.