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.
I love it when the tagline for a movie doubles as hidden instructions to the unassuming crowd about to view it. It's almost like a disclaimer that you only understand after, in this case, eighty-seven minutes of life draining stupidity that you can't get back without a time machine and a flux capacitor. Yes, dear friends, 2005's The Amityville Horror is truly that awful.
