June 20, 2013

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My Amityville Horror: The Creepiest Yet

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Just when you thought that the Amityville case was dead, Fantasia Film Festival revived it once again. There have been a variety of Hollywood films made about the 1973 case (1979 and 2005′s The Amityville Horror, 1989′s The Amityville Curse, etc.), in which Ronald DeFeo, 23, killed his entire family in their Amityville, NY home. The films’ primarily focuses have been the paranormal occurrences which allegedly influenced DeFeo and tormented the family which subsequently inhabited the house. It may seem uninspired to continually revisit the tale, but filmmaker Eric Walter has given this staple of American mythology a new spin….