The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson releasedThe Amityville Horrorin 1977 , which was establish on the alleged paranormal experiences of the Lutz family after they moved into a home that had latterly have a real - humanity tragedy when Ronald " Butch " DeFeo Jr. shoot and killed his parents and four sibling after he claimed to have find out demonic voices from the business firm .
The book led to a hugely successful movie adaptation that plain off a surprising amount of movie sequel set in the possessed home ( or sometimes not anywhere near it ) that have further explore the unequalled kinfolk habitation on Ocean Avenue on Long Island . However , the name has been used for so many less than stellar films over the class that fans might have to determine for the good of the worst .
Best: The Amityville Murders (2018)
Daniel Farrands 2018 filmThe Amityville Murdersexplored the original mass murder of the Long Island house before the Lutz family move in , though the cinema drive a heavy supernatural approach to the veridical - world crime .
The film feature a diabolical influence that manipulated the eldest DeFeo son to down his family and included some actual accounts in the film , though largely failed to lend much to previously build aspect of the tale .
Worst: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)
1989’sAmityville 4 : The Evil Escapeswas a made - for - telly movie that took place after the events of the original cinematic trilogy , Though it was onlyloosely connected to the eventsof the Amityville theatre in the form of a haunted particular from within the house .
The Evil Escapesbegins in the house as an exorcism seems to trap a demon within one of the DeFeo class ’s odd - shaped lamps that were left in the Amityville house . That lamp is then sold at an the three estates sale and sent away to a new home in California that before long start to have extrasensory issue and even tragic murders that leads the phratry to battle their new haunted lamp .
Best: Amityville: It’s About Time (1992)
Haunted items from the Amityville sign of the zodiac would keep to spread supernatural evilness to other crime syndicate and households forover two - XII sequels and related to films , though 1992’sAmityville : It ’s About Timetook a alone glide slope after an old-fashioned clock was discovered in the demolished Amityville house .
Once the clock is place on the mantlepiece of a new home , strange metre - refer events commence to hap that threatened the entire household in a amazingly enjoyable and now and again comedic twist on the sometimes trite premiss .
Worst: The Amityville Legacy (2016)
2016’sThe Amityville Legacy(later re - released asAmityville Toybox ) followed a cursed antique toy dog monkey from the DeFeo house in Amityville that is given to a new crime syndicate in Nebraska as a giving , and while the film is n’t a direct continuation it follows in other entries stalk item stride .
The cursed monkey toy ends up have the father of the family unit leading to a phone number of red incidents that even lead to a sequel that followed the cursed toy with 2017’sAmityville : Evil Never Dies(which was later on re - released asAmityville Clownhouse ) .
Best: The Conjuring 2 (2016)
While the highly successfulThe Conjuringfranchise did n’t devote a lot of clip to the Amityville slaying , though 2016’sThe Conjuring 2did characteristic a abbreviated look at the DeFeo slaying through one of Lorraine Warren ’s psychic vision .
Warren stalks taciturnly through the DeFeo house as she inhabits the organic structure of the oldest Logos while he murdered his family one by one . The DeFeo execution were used to introduce the demonic conical buoy as the evil influencer of DeFeo that would go on to torment the family in Enfield and later champion in the 2018 spin - offThe Nun .
Worst: Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
1993’sAmityville : A New Generationused the familiar obsess item from Amityville assumption as a young man accepts a mirror as a gift that is before long revealed to be have , though it featured an interesting callback to the original DeFeo murders .
The mirror was possessed by his don Frank Bronner , who dispatch his entire family with a shotgun in the Amityville house much like the original murders . The mirror soon became to possess and kill people in very forgettable ways , quickly becoming one of the bad of the franchise despite its use of the real murders .
Best: The Amityville Horror (1979/2005)
The most recognized pic is without a doubt the original1979 adaptation of Anson’sThe Amityville Horror , which only boast a brief explanation of the DeFeo slaying before jumping into the arriver of the Lutz family and the following paranormal events .
The2005 remaking of the same nameintroduced more of the DeFeo murder into the Lutz ' story , though it have a turn of liberties . The remake altered the DeFeo kinsfolk slenderly to add new haunt elements for the Lutz kin while also innovate the idea of a supernatural burial ground sitting below the house .
Worst: Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
One of the more recent films to explore the Amityville murders was 2017’sAmityville : The Awakening , though the modern meta - horror postdate a family in the " material - world " who is even look watchingThe Amityville Horrorduring the film .
Amityville : The Awakeningbriefly mentions the DeFeo murdersthat come about years earlier in the business firm , though it largely focalise on the demonic will power of the family ’s comatose child and their reasons for move to a house with such a morose chronicle . The film was shelved after being filmed and leave concisely after release .
Best: Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
1982’sAmityville II : The Possessionis a prequel to the original picture that was found on Hanz Holzer’sMurder in Amityvillewhich concenter on the DeFeo execution themselves , though the film used a novelize variation of the family name Montelli .
The movie introduced a few uncomfortable and controversial element that included an incestuous human relationship and anunsanctioned demonic dispossession . Amityville II : The Possessionisn’t needfully the safe picture in a series full of bad unity , but it did showcase the original Amityville murders instead of the common have house .
Worst: Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
While the Amityville house provided a turn of haunted gifts over the years like the aforementioned lamps , toy , and mirrors , 1996’sAmityville Dollhousetruly push the limits of credibleness when a miniature model of the original house is randomly discovered in the shed of a family line ’s raw family .
The syndicate make up one’s mind to use it as a doll’s house , though it quickly becomes lost alongside a telephone number of supernatural element that admit giant fauna , haunted fetich dolls , and magic congener that resulted in a rightful hot mess of a motion picture .
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