My Amityville Horror

Released Mar 15, 2013

1 hr. 29 min.

Documentary

Horror

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73%

26 Reviews

Tomatometer

39%

1,000+ Ratings

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Daniel Lutz, who was a child when the events recounted in Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror" occurred, tells his side of the story.

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Critics Consensus

My Amityville Horror offers an unsettlingly ambiguous personal perspective on the true story that spawned a horror franchise.

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Sadie M

The trauma that Daniel Lutz suffered in his youth has had a very obvious effect on him. If he were an actor I would call his performance just about Oscar-worthy............but he isn't - he's a man with permanently damaged hands and probably PTSD. By now, most adults know that the Warrens were not always truthful people and that George Lutz and Jay Anson (the author of The Amityville Horror) made up parts of the story for the book, but Daniel Lutz's emotional scars are palpable, the ghost photograph taken during the Warrens' investigation is real (I personally compared it to the photo of the investigator people claim it's really of and their faces and clothing are different), and truth is scarier than fiction.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/17/23

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Jason S

The man was not believable and looked and acted very irrational and mean it just seems to many from the past that we’re involved in it from the origin said it’s a hoax. That little boy in the house was not a ghost he was part of the crew

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/07/23

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David N

Well, if there are three ways of looking at this. 1. It's a true story, just like the original Amityville Horror. 2. It's all made up. 3. Wait. Huh? That was supposed to be real? Really? Holy crap!!! If you are in group 2, you probably don't want to watch this. Unless you've got an open mind, you will hate this. If you are group 1 or 3 and think there may be something real here, you will love this. It's actually probably more scary than any of the 28 or so Amityville movies. You can decide which group I'm in.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Ryan R

Very interesting story on childhood trauma and abuse and how deeply memory can be influenced. Seems very relevant to conspiracy theorists, religious and spiritual people, and paranormalists who truly believe in their own otherworldly experiences.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

This movie would've played out better as a 30 minute special for Reelz TV, but instead it seems like the filmmakers padded it out into a 90 min runtime just so they could say they had a 'feature length' film. The main character comes across as your typical burned out loser that you avoid at the local bar unless you want to be subjected to listening to the same drunk, nonsensical trash every time. Lorrain Warren is equally, if not more, mentally unhinged, even trying to convince viewers she has a piece of wood from Jesus's cross. Yeah, we believe the lady with roosters in her basement who continues to make money off other people stupid enough to believe her "career" as a "paranormal investigator". It's frustrating to watch the filmmakers try to convince the audience there's more here than meets the eye, when in fact, everyone involved are just more people continuing to make money off George Lutz' piece of fiction about a 'haunted house'. I guess it's better than the newer Amityville movies that the big movie studios keep churning out, but no one seems to care about those either.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

LOL, so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Eric Walter

Director

Daniel Lutz

Actor

Laura DiDio

Actor

Marvin Scott

Actor

Joel Martin

Actor

Lorraine Warren

Actor

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Rob Nelson

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Where Walter's film succeeds is in rendering Lutz, onscreen throughout, as an indelibly prickly and unsettling figure.

Apr 2, 2013

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John DeFore

Hollywood Reporter

Unusual doc should please both believers and die-hard skeptics.

Apr 2, 2013

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Neil Genzlinger

New York Times

Mr. Lutz prattles on endlessly about the paranormal activity he says he witnessed, the unpleasant family dynamics he grew up with and more.

Rated: 1.5/5

Mar 14, 2013

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

The resulting documentary is, at times, unnerving, but more often a subjective exercise that reveals one of America's most famous hauntings to be an overblown façade.

Aug 8, 2019

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Amie Simon

Three Imaginary Girls

Whatever the truth is, the story of that house in Amityville and the boy who spent time in it is FASCINATING, even though we might ever know what really happened.

Mar 2, 2019

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Sarah Gopaul

Digital Journal

There's a sense that this isn't the film Walter expected to make, but given the footage he had he pieced together a movie. Yet in the end, the question remains: Amityville hoax or horror?

Oct 22, 2018

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Synopsis

Daniel Lutz, who was a child when the events recounted in Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror" occurred, tells his side of the story.

Director: Eric Walter
Executive Producer: Ronald Puleio, Michael S. Russo
Screenwriter: Eric Walter
Distributor: IFC Films
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 27, 2016

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