The Amityville Horror (2005) on Netflix
George and Kathy Lutz move into a Long Island house with Kathy's three children, unaware that six murders happened there a year earlier. Chelsea says she has befriended a girl named Jodie.
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On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his parents and four siblings in their home on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, later saying that voices in the house had told him to do it. A year on, George and Kathy Lutz move in with Kathy's three children from an earlier marriage, Billy, Michael and Chelsea. Strange things begin happening to the family in the house. Chelsea says she has made a friend named Jodie, which was the name of one of the murdered DeFeo children. The babysitter Lisa, who had worked for the DeFeos in the past, tells the Lutzes about the killings that happened in their home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Amityville Horror (2005)
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- The real George Lutz later said nobody ever spoke to him or his family about the project, although MGM claimed the remake was based on new information uncovered while researching the original events; his attorney contacted the studio to say Lutz believed they had no right to proceed without his input.
- The real George Lutz denounced the finished film as "drivel" and was still suing the filmmakers at the time of his death in May 2006.
- In 2017 an estate sale was held at the filming house and the quarter-moon windows, which had been sitting in the attic since filming, were sold; the buyer lives in the same neighborhood and has the windows on display.
- The house's address was changed to 412 Ocean Avenue as opposed to 112, likely to deter anyone from attempting to visit the real house.
- The home used in the film, 27618 Silver Lake Road in Salem, is a real 1800s home that was temporarily converted to add the famous quarter-moon "evil eye" windows, and the movie facade installed on it cost $60,000.
- The Amityville Horror opened on 3,323 screens in the United States on April 15, 2005 and earned $23,507,007 on its opening weekend, ranking first in the domestic box office.
