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The Amityville HorrorThe Amityville Horror was a bestselling 1977 novel by Jay Anson, and a 1979 film , about a family that moves into a house in the New York village of Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island where a murder was committed, and finds that the house exerts a paranormal influence on them. The house described in The Amityville Horror and portrayed on the book's cover is a real home on Ocean Avenue in an upscale neighborhood in Amityville. Some sources claim that after the Lutz family moved out, a second family bought the house and also claimed paranormal events, but others dispute that there was any such family between the Lutzes and the family that currently owns the house. The family that currently owns the house have never reported experiencing any paranormal phenomena at all and have lived there quietly without any complaints from them or their neighbors except for tourists parking to view the house. The new family made modifications in the house, especially by changing the distinctive quarter-round windows that made it recognizable from other nearby homes, after which the tourism problem declined. The house's original address was also changed. The home was the scene of the murder of six members of the DeFeo family by Ronald DeFeo, Jr., who is still imprisoned for the crime. Part of the appeal of the story was that the book was subtitled "a true story," and the movie also claimed to be the true story of the Lutz family's experiences in the Amityville house. However, many of the claims they made were discovered to be false or distorted, including the fact that descriptions of alleged psychic events did not match either the method or details of the actual murders. The movie had no fewer than seven sequels and a new version of the original movie is to be released in 2005. External links *Amityville: Horror or Hoax?
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