THE AMITYVILLE HAUNTING

     Overall, The Amityville Horror is somewhat accurate to the true story. Though there are several events that never actually happened, the movie remains consistant with the characters' personalities and the setting. The movie takes a majority of the original events as described by the real Lutz family and portrays them very well, such as George Lutz slowly becoming more and more abusive to his family. Unfortunately, many unnecessary events and characters are added in an attempt to amp the "creepy" factor. The Lutz family did stay in the Amityville house for 28 days and then left shortly after because of the ghastly hauntings, but the 2005 remake overexaggerated many elements said by the real Lutz family and by the author of the original book.