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Mom Louise is the ineffectual abused spouse who will never step in to help her equally battered family. Son Butch is a sad and emotional young man with a serious drug problem, who seems already poised to do something terrible - with or without the help of a supernatural entity. Paul Ben-Victor is perfect for this role and gives us the stand-out performance of the film. is an abusive man who rules over his family with a literal iron fist. The story moves on, very similar to all the other films, to recount the infamous murders. I never woke up any demons, but I have to admit I did try to contact the dead.

I would laugh out loud at that, IF I hadn’t been a Ouija board-playing teen myself. Things get out of control, and it seems they woke up something very sinister. The film begins at a birthday party when Butch (John Robinson) and sister Dawn (Chelsea Ricketts) take a group of friends into a secret red room to show off a ghost they can conjure up and get to levitate coins. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that “voices” in the house commanded him to kill. (known as Butch) took a high-powered rifle and murdered his entire family (mother, father and 4 siblings) as they slept. Official Synopsis: On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. I held my breath when I got this one to watch…but I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked it! Other than the original The Amityville Horror back in 1979 (which I liked, even though I think the haunted part is a story concocted by the Lutzs for financial gain), The Amityville Murders is hands down my favorite film of the collection. They seemed silly and made to go straight to video. I was not a fan of most of the other films, the ones I was able to get through anyway. Writer/Director Daniel Farrands’ The Amityville Murders is the closest to the true story as far as I can tell, and it also happens to be a really good film. As a result, there are few people (in the United States, anyway) who don’t know at least part of the home’s dark history.

While most of the 20 odd films made about the estate went straight to video obscurity, some did reach theaters and received widespread exposure. The beautiful Long Island estate has a sordid and well-documented past. Whether because of the purported haunted history tied to the Lutz family accounts, or the real-life tragedy of the DeFeo family murders that occurred there, the house on Ocean Ave is infamous and fascinating - and it always will be. I grew up seeing a lot of different depictions about the famous house in Amityville, New York. With strong acting from the entire cast, this film does a great job telling the true story of the infamous house’s blood-soaked past. The Amityville Murders is the newest addition to the Amityville house universe. “The Amityville Murders” could be one of the best adaptations about the tragic DeFeo family story to ever grace the big screen.