My Amityville Horror

Name: My Amityville Horror
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 15, 2013
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 48

2013

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: March 15, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975.

Director: Eric Walter

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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The Playlist Drew Taylor

Mar 15, 2013

The results are a disturbing mixture of paranormal ghost story and psychological unease. Read full review

Nick Schager

Mar 12, 2013

Whether it was all a haunting or a hoax is left unanswered, but the film leaves little doubt that Amityville's greatest source of evil was, fundamentally, parental in nature. Read full review

Drew Hunt

Mar 12, 2013

The film is a tender character portrait rooted in deep curiosity and sympathy for its subject. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Mar 13, 2013

Walter has the case down cold and arrives at suitably ambiguous conclusions about terrors both real and suggested, but he gets there through a mix of dimly lit interviews and ominous underscoring that wouldn’t be out of place on an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries." Read full review

Rob Nelson

Mar 18, 2013

This documentary plays like an extended episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” deficient as it is in stylistic zeal, investigative spirit and plain old scares. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Mar 14, 2013

Lutz, who was a boy when his family fled the Long Island home, is full of belligerence in this chronicle of his family’s alleged run-in with a ghoulish home where a murder had occurred. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Mar 14, 2013

These days, when paranormal-themed shows are all over television, Mr. Lutz sounds like just another guy peddling an unverifiable spooky story. Read full review

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OneSamTwoCups

Jun 19, 2013

My Amityville Horror starts off strong but soon after Daniel starts pouring it all out, much of the tales seem unbelievable and ridiculous to the point of no return, making Danny a very unreliable source of information on the hauntings. Much more time is spent on trying to prove evil existsMy Amityville Horror starts off strong but soon after Daniel starts pouring it all out, much of the tales seem unbelievable and ridiculous to the point of no return, making Danny a very unreliable source of information on the hauntings. Much more time is spent on trying to prove evil exists than the hauntings themselves, that is this documentary's biggest downfall.… Expand

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Stubie6

Apr 24, 2013

The producers of this interview/documentary hybrid try very hard to empathise with the subject Daniel Lutz. Unfortunately he and the other characters interviewed appear superficial and self-indulgent, all the while painting bigger demons of Daniel's family, atheists and agnostics than theyThe producers of this interview/documentary hybrid try very hard to empathise with the subject Daniel Lutz. Unfortunately he and the other characters interviewed appear superficial and self-indulgent, all the while painting bigger demons of Daniel's family, atheists and agnostics than they do the supposed demons they claim haunted the Lutz family at the Amityville house.… Expand

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