Amityville Horror Fanatic
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Chiller about a family who is terrorized by supernatural forces
when they move into a new house in New York State which was the scene of
a recent mass killing and the home of an 18th-century satanist. When
swarms of flies appear from nowhere and the pipes and walls begin to
ooze slime and blood, they call on a local priest to exorcise the evil spirits.
Horror or Hoax?
Did a priest really bless the house when the Lutz family was moving in?
Did a swarm of flies appear in the home?
Did the toilets overflow with a black sludge?
Left: Missy Lutz's drawing of Jodie running through the snow. Right: George (James Brolin) sees Jodie the pig in an upstairs window in the 1979 movie.
Did a priest really bless the house when the Lutz family was moving in?
On
December 18, 1975, the day that the real Lutz family was moving into
their new Ocean Avenue home in Amityville, a Catholic priest allegedly
came by to bless the house, supposedly at the request of Kathy Lutz. On
October 4, 1979, a little more than two months after the release of the
movie, the investigative television program In Search of
featured an episode that included an interview with who they claim is
the real Amityville priest. He wanted to remain anonymous, so his face
was kept hidden. Watch the Amityville Priest Interview
"I was blessing the sewing room," says the priest. "It was cold. It was
really cold in there. I'm like, 'Well, gee, this is peculiar,' because
it was a lovely day out, and it was winter, yes, but it didn't account
for that kind of coldness. I was also sprinkling holy water, and I heard
a rather deep voice behind me saying, 'Get out!' It seemed so directed
toward me that I was really quite startled. I felt a slap at one point
on the face. I felt somebody slap me, and there was nobody there."Did a swarm of flies appear in the home?
Yes. During an interview with Inside Edition
in 2005, Chris explained that, "There was definitely a lot of flies but
nothing again like Hollywood is portraying it." His brother Daniel also
mentioned issues with flies in his documentary My Amityville Horror, although he claims there were many more.
Did flies really swarm the priest who blessed the home?
No.
"They [the filmmakers] could have just as easily had done the flies the
way they really happened," says George Lutz, who laughed at the movie's
portrayal of flies attacking the priest (Rod Steiger). -The Real Amityville Horror
Did the priest really get static on the phone when he tried to call and warn the Lutzes?
Yes, at least according to the TV program In Search of and their 1979 interview with who they state is the real Amityville priest. Noise interference prevented any phone communication and he could never get through to warn the family.
Were there cold spots in the real Amityville Horror house?
Yes,
at least according to most of the people involved in the story. This
includes son Daniel Lutz and Father Ralph Pecoraro, the priest who
allegedly blessed the home. The strange coldness is why the movie
depicts George Lutz constantly chopping wood and burning the home's
fireplace.
Did the toilets overflow with a black sludge?
No. At least not according to what George Lutz said during the 1979 Good Morning America interview. He states that it was the porcelain toilet bowls themselves that turned black, not the water.
Did Missy have an imaginary friend named Jodie?
Our exploration into The Amityville Horror
true story revealed that according to George Lutz, Missy did have an
imaginary/paranormal friend named Jodie (spelled "Jody" in the film).
The entity would present itself to his daughter in different forms,
including as an angel and as a large pig. In the movie, George (James
Brolin) sees Jodie in pig form in an upstairs window. Earlier, his wife
Kathy (Margot Kidder) sees Jodie's glowing red eyes through a window in
the darkness. A drawing that the real Missy Lutz allegedly did of Jodie
is featured in Jay Anson's novel. The creature in the drawing looks more
like a cat than a pig. However, the book describes it as a drawing of a
pig walking through the snow.
Left: Missy Lutz's drawing of Jodie running through the snow. Right: George (James Brolin) sees Jodie the pig in an upstairs window in the 1979 movie.
Did Daniel get his hand smashed in a window?
Was there really a secret red room in the basement?
A former friend of Allison DeFeo sits in the real Amityville house's red room (left). Right: Actor James Brolin sees a familiar face in the movie's secret Amityville basement room.
For the Amityville movie scene pictured above on the right, the filmmakers recruited the real-life brother of actor James Brolin to portray the face/entity that Brolin's character sees in the secret basement room. They needed someone who looked like Brolin and when given a beard and mustache, his brother easily fit the part.
Did the window in the Amityville house really break?
Did the front door really get ripped off?
Did blood drip down the walls?
Did George Lutz really fall through the basement stairs into a hole filled with black sludge?
Did anything paranormal happen on The Amityville Horror set?
Yes,
according to Daniel Lutz, he did get his hand smashed by the window. In
real life, Daniel says that the window smashed his hand "skin on skin",
emphasizing the initial severity of his injury. In his documentary My Amityville Horror,
he holds his hand up in front of the camera to demonstrate that his
little finger is still bent from the injury. Moments later, he
contradicts himself somewhat by saying that his hand had magically
healed just minutes after the injury. In the movie, the parents take
their son to the hospital and are eerily amazed that there are no broken
bones in his hand.
Was there really a secret red room in the basement?
Yes,
but the red room was exaggerated in the movie and book. In reality, the
red room wasn't all that secret. It was part of a storage space under
the basement stairs. Patty Commarato, a former friend of the murdered
DeFeo daughter Allison, revisits the real Amityville red room (pictured
below) during a 1980 episode of That's Incredible (See Video of the Red Room). She says that the DeFeos used to store toys in the small red space.
A former friend of Allison DeFeo sits in the real Amityville house's red room (left). Right: Actor James Brolin sees a familiar face in the movie's secret Amityville basement room.
For the Amityville movie scene pictured above on the right, the filmmakers recruited the real-life brother of actor James Brolin to portray the face/entity that Brolin's character sees in the secret basement room. They needed someone who looked like Brolin and when given a beard and mustache, his brother easily fit the part.
Did the window in the Amityville house really break?
No.
Not only was there never any physical evidence of a window breaking, in
a 2011 interview, son Christopher Lutz confirmed that no Amityville
house windows broke. -Spooky Southcoast
During a 1980 Amityville episode of the TV show That's Incredible, Barbara Cromarty, who purchased the home with her husband Jim after the Lutzes moved out, allowed the cameras inside the home to demonstrate that the upstairs eye window had never shattered like in the movie, noting that the window frame still showed the old paint and putty from when the house was built in 1927.
In a 2011 interview with 30 Odd Minutes, Christopher Lutz clarified that even though one of the Amityville home's infamous eye windows never shattered, this element of the movie was in fact inspired by the windows having opened on their own. "That was my bedroom...Those two windows are one bedroom and that used to be Ronald DeFeo's bedroom, and when we moved in the house my brother and I shared that room. That window opened many times, but rather than display it like it happened, they showed it absolutely shattering. It didn't shatter the glass. The window opened. The thing swung open."
During a 1980 Amityville episode of the TV show That's Incredible, Barbara Cromarty, who purchased the home with her husband Jim after the Lutzes moved out, allowed the cameras inside the home to demonstrate that the upstairs eye window had never shattered like in the movie, noting that the window frame still showed the old paint and putty from when the house was built in 1927.
In a 2011 interview with 30 Odd Minutes, Christopher Lutz clarified that even though one of the Amityville home's infamous eye windows never shattered, this element of the movie was in fact inspired by the windows having opened on their own. "That was my bedroom...Those two windows are one bedroom and that used to be Ronald DeFeo's bedroom, and when we moved in the house my brother and I shared that room. That window opened many times, but rather than display it like it happened, they showed it absolutely shattering. It didn't shatter the glass. The window opened. The thing swung open."
Did the front door really get ripped off?
No. In The Amityville Horror
movie, demonic forces cause the wooden front door to explode outward.
"It did not get ripped off," said son Christopher Lutz during a 2011
interview (Spooky Southcoast). It should be noted that mother
Kathy Lutz had previously stated that the door did blow outward, leaving
police and repairmen dumbfounded. However, no physical evidence has
ever surfaced to validate Kathy's claim.
Did blood drip down the walls?
No. In the 2005 documentary The Real Amityville Horror, the real George Lutz said that blood never dripped down the walls.
Did George Lutz really fall through the basement stairs into a hole filled with black sludge?
No. During the 2005 Christopher Lutz Inside Edition interview,
he says that the exciting scene at the end of the film when James
Brolin's character falls through the basement stairs into the
sludge-filled hole never happened in real life.
Did anything paranormal happen on The Amityville Horror set?
No,
at least not according to the movie's two main stars. "I watched with
great amusement as the studio's publicity machine went into action
concocting these terrible things that were happening on our set, which
weren't really," says Margot Kidder, who portrays Kathy Lutz in The Amityville Horror movie.
Actor James Brolin recalls with amusement, "We're being asked, 'Is there weird stuff goin' on?' and we're goin', we're lookin' for stuff now, you know, cause we'd like to tell 'em, 'Awe, yeah, you wouldn't believe what happened yesterday.'"
Actor James Brolin recalls with amusement, "We're being asked, 'Is there weird stuff goin' on?' and we're goin', we're lookin' for stuff now, you know, cause we'd like to tell 'em, 'Awe, yeah, you wouldn't believe what happened yesterday.'"
-http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/amityvillehorror1979.php
The Lutz family:
George Lutz Kathy Lutz Daniel Lutz Christopher Lutz Missy Lutz
George Lutz Kathy Lutz Daniel Lutz Christopher Lutz Missy Lutz
When George and Kathy Lutz moved into the three-story colonial in
Amityville on New York's Long Island in December 1975, they were
thrilled.
The sprawling house at 112 Ocean Ave. had cost them just $80,000, and
they loved it. "It was a dream come true," George Lutz remembers.
True, the house had been the scene of a horrible multiple murder a
little over a year before, when 23-year-old Ronnie DeFeo went from room
to room methodically shooting his parents and his four brothers and
sisters in their beds. But the Lutzes sat down with their three young
children and agreed the family could handle it.
Just in case though, the day they moved in they had a priest, Father Ray
Pecoraro, bless the house. According to Lutz, the priest said he felt
an unseen hand slap him in the sewing room and heard a voice say "Get
out." Then, Lutz says, Pecoraro became ill with flu-like symptoms and
his hands began to bleed.
The family moved in anyway, but within days they began to notice strange phenomena.
"There were ... odors in the house that came and went," Lutz says.
"There were sounds. The front door would slam shut in the middle of the
night.... I couldn't get warm in the house for many days."
Lutz says the family kept the fireplace burning day and night in a
futile attempt to stay warm, and found strange gelatinous drops on the
carpet when they woke up in the morning. At times, he claims, his wife
was physically transformed into an old woman, with the face, hair and
wrinkles of a 90-year-old.
Lutz claims that he mysteriously woke at 3:15 a.m. almost every day —
around the same time the DeFeo murders were believed to have happened.
One night, he says, he heard his children's beds "slamming up and down
on the floor" above him but he was unable to do anything because he was
immobilized in bed by an unseen force. Later that night, he woke to see
his wife levitating and moving across the bed, he says.
The next morning, just 28 days after they moved in, the Lutz family fled
the house, leaving their clothes in the closets and food in the
refrigerator. If the family had not left, Lutz says, he believes
something horrible would have happened. "I try not to think about it,"
he says.
-http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132035&page=1
-http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132035&page=1
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Amityville Murders Documentary
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The real Amityville Horror is the strange story of the brutal DeFeo murders that took place 13 months earlier.
This A&E documentary explores the true story behind the Amityville Horror: the bizarre circumstance
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Published on Sep 5, 2014
This A&E documentary explores the true story behind the Amityville Horror: the bizarre circumstance
Did Robert Jr. have help?
The parents were attacked while they lay in
bed. Mr. DeFeo, however, was able to struggle to his feet to attempt a
counterattack on his assassins. A second bullet struck him dead before
he was able to reach his target. Louise DeFeo lay in bed, moaning for
help, as she slowly bled to death. A second bullet would silence the
woman for good.
Although the original plan called
for the
younger children to be taken to the grandparents' house in
Brooklyn,
Dawn, according to Butch, killed them to eliminate the children
as witnesses
and potential threats. Butch claimed he was not in the house at
the time
of the children's murders, but giving pursuit to one his
friends, who had fled the
scene, in order to lure him back to assist with the cleanup.
Even while feigning insanity at trial, Butch DeFeo never admitted
shooting the children.
One can only imagine the horror on Marc's
and John's faces when their big sister entered their room with a rifle.
Dawn callously ordered the boys face down. A clue that the DeFeos were
awake at the time of the murders rested in the final position of Marc
DeFeo's body. Because Marc had suffered a debilitating injury from
football, he was forced to sleep on his back. Yet, he was shot face down
in bed. The prosecutor confirmed this fact at the DeFeo trial.
The next room Dawn entered was Allison's.
Standing at the doorway, Dawn raised the rifle, taking aim as Allison
slightly raised her head before looking into the muzzle flash. Death was
instantaneous, as the bullet impacted Allison's left cheek and exited
her right ear. Allison's wounds were meant to disfigure the beautiful
girl.
Butch, upon his return and enraged at the
senseless murder, confronted Dawn DeFeo in her third-floor bedroom.
After briefly wrestling for the gun, Butch got the upper hand and
slammed Dawn against the bed knocking her out. As she lie unconscious on
her bed, Butch placed the back of the rifle to Dawn's head and fired.
http://www.amityvillemurders.com/murders.html
The Murders:
The bodies of Ronald and Louise DeFeo as they were discovered on the night of November 13, 1974
The body of Louise DeFeo neatly tucked under the covers.
The bodies of Ronald and Louise DeFeo as they were discovered on the night of November 13, 1974
The body of Louise DeFeo neatly tucked under the covers.
The uncovered body of John Matthew DeFeo,9
as it was discovered by John Altieri on the evening of November 13,
1974. In the bed on the opposite side of the room lay his 11-year old
brother, Marc. Both boys had been shot at extremely close range with a
.35 Marlin rifle.
Standing at the threshold between the second floor hallway and Allison
DeFeo's bedroom, this is precisely what Officers Greguski and Tyndall
discovered. Thirteen-year-old Allison DeFeo was clearly beyond help. The
blood from her massive head wound had run down the mattress and
boxsprings to the carpeting below.
The body of Dawn Theresa DeFeo, 18.
Meet Allison, John, and Mark DeFeo:
Allison
DeFeo was a quiet girl. Every time that Ronald DeFeo Jr. raised his
voice in the house, she closed her bedroom door to block the discussions
that Ron Sr. and Ron Jr. had. She spent her summer in the pool with his
friends. She was aged 13 at his assassination.
John DeFeo was seven years old when he died. It has been described as a nice little boy by the friends of Allison. The day before the murders, John DeFeo and his friend were sitting on the steps of his basement and secretly watched Ronald Sr. and Jr. Ronald argue. Ronald Jr. was left with a bloody lip
There is not much information about Mark DeFeo, except that the day of his murder, Mr. DeFeo was supposed to take Mark to the doctor for an injury in football. During the football season, Mark DeFeo had a serious injury and has required the temporary use of crutches and a wheelchair. He died at the age of 12. There was a theory that claimed he was awake when he was murdered because he was found on his stomach, but due to his football injury he was only able to sleep on his back.
John DeFeo was seven years old when he died. It has been described as a nice little boy by the friends of Allison. The day before the murders, John DeFeo and his friend were sitting on the steps of his basement and secretly watched Ronald Sr. and Jr. Ronald argue. Ronald Jr. was left with a bloody lip
There is not much information about Mark DeFeo, except that the day of his murder, Mr. DeFeo was supposed to take Mark to the doctor for an injury in football. During the football season, Mark DeFeo had a serious injury and has required the temporary use of crutches and a wheelchair. He died at the age of 12. There was a theory that claimed he was awake when he was murdered because he was found on his stomach, but due to his football injury he was only able to sleep on his back.
-http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f237/real-amityville-horror-crime-scene-pictures-29401/
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