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    My Amityville Horror

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    What I reveal initially until I state otherwise has nothing to do with the present documentary itself, MY AMITYVILLE HORROR. It is mere background to help anyone understand one individual's state of mind in light of the horror that eventually took place in a Long Island house. Before the Lutz family moves into the house...

    For starters, The house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Long Island was a huge home with pool and other amenities in which one member of a particular family shot to death every member of that household... Sometime after that the LUTZ family purchased the property at a reduction price of $80,000.00+ which in 1974 was still a huge amount and moved in. Thus began the horrors that would be portrayed first in a book and then in a series of movies of what made the Lutz Family flee the home only a month after taking possession of the house.

    For anyone unsure of The Amityville Horror, it was perhaps the biggest case ever in America of demonic possession of a family home. Apparently, once the Lutz family moved out, no more occurrences manifested themselves. NONE OF THIS IS PORTRAYED IN THE DOC BUT SOME REFERENCES ARE MADE so we can follow the chain of events.

    MY AMITYVILLE HORROR deals with the lifetime horror of one of the LUTZ boys, Danny, now 50, who has never been able to shake the events that took place in that house though the family lived there but one month. It is very obvious we are dealing with a man in full use of his faculties who has finally decided to speak out in order to start the final healing process of so many years ago.

    You as the viewer must make a huge leap of faith as to the authenticity of it all. I remember reading the novel and other material years after the incident and as far as I'm concerned, I have come to the conclusion that Danny LUTZ was physically and mentally possessed by an evil spirit in that Amityville house. ****THE DOC really begins at this juncture as that once young boy of 10, now 50 recounts and relives those memories. It's all a harrowing, eerie and very chilling account. Each has to listen to the evidence and conclude for himself/herself as to the truth. Personally, I view Danny Lutz, according to the documentary, as a man who has suffered; a man who has never been able to lead a normal life; but with the revelation of ancient events, one sees a man who wants closure and full recovery from a life that has brought him only horror.

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    pietroantoni@  7.1.2015 age: 36-49 14,551 reviews

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