2. FILM
The Amityville Horror is a 2005
American biographical horror
film directed by Andrew
Douglas. It is a remake of the
1979 film of the same name which
itself was based on the
1977 novel of the same
name by Jay Anson, which
documents the alleged
experiences of the Lutz family
after they moved into a house
on LonG Island which had been
the scene of a mass murder
committed by Ronald DeFeo,
Jr. who shot six members of his
family there in November 1974.

3. TRAILER

4. PLOT
• On November 13, 1974, at
3:15am, Ronald DeFeo,
Jr. shot and killed his
family at their
home, 112 Ocean
Avenue in Amityville,
New York. He killed
five members of his
family in their beds,
but his youngest
sister, Jodie, had been
killed in her bedroom
closet. He claimed
that he was persuaded
to kill them by voices
he had heard in the
house.

6. Director
ANDREW DOUGLAS
• Was Director Douglas Nervous
About Doing a Remake?: “No.
you know, it’s a generation ago. I
remember it, you may remember
it, but really a lot of people don’t.
It was a good film at the time, but
it’s a great story.
• Does the Director of “The
Amityville Horror” Believe the
Story?: “I sure believe the serial
killing because that’s
documented. And I’m inclined to
believe the other just because if I
doubt the other, that means when
I die, I’m dead. But if I believe
there are ghosts then maybe I’ll
have another go-round.”

7. RYAN REYNOLDS
• “Houses don’t kill people. People kill
people.”
• As far as the acting in this
remake, Ryan Reynolds is decent and
does a good job of hitting the
humorous moments and also
portraying rage as his character
speedily descends into madness.
• What it all ultimately boils down to is
whether or not the movie did its job of
scaring the audience. There were
plenty of jumpy moments, but they
were buttressed by unintentionally
funny scenes. It wasn’t the horror
movie I wanted it to be, but it wasn’t a
complete disaster either.

9. PRODUCTORS
Andrew Form AND Brad Fuller
• The first movie was released in 1979 and did
pretty well at the box office. But the producers
felt that that the original movie, while a good
film, could use an update.
• The Attraction of Remaking “The Amityville
Horror:”=:“We had a big meeting after
‘Chainsaw’ and Michael Bay loves true crime,
so we were thinking of what great true crime
stories were out there and that led us right to
Amityville. I grew up on Long Island so I had
seen the house as a kid.
• Combating Moviegoers Who Are Anti-
Remakes: “We don’t really look to combat it. I
think that’s a real thing and I understand the
response. What we hope to do is kind of do is
to pay tribute to the film that we’re remaking,
and hopefully make it better or more exciting.
And that’s the best way that we can combat it, I
suppose,”

10. REMAKE
• Jodie Transitions from a Demonic Pig to a Little Girl Ghost: I
remember reading the book years ago and watching the
original “The Amityville Horror” film. The image of Jodie the
demonic pig and those beady red eyes staring in at the Lutz
family has stuck with me since then. But in this version of the
Amityville events, the pig’s gone and in its place is the ghost of
'Jodie' DeFeo (the real name of the DeFeo's youngest daughter
was Allison, not Jodie). Allison was one of the six members of the
DeFeo family who were murdered in their beds by Ronald
DeFeo Jr on the night of November 13, 1974.
• The Pig’s Gone and Other Changes – Is This Really
Classified as a Remake?: Fuller believes that even with the
changes from the original movie, this 2005 film is still
considered a remake. “It is in that we used the same source
material and we’re telling the same story. We chose different
things in the book to talk about. And we tried to amp it up. It’s
been 30 years since the original. Horror audiences have seen a
lot of horror movies in the interim and we just wanted to make it
what it would be if they were making it in 2005. “

14. RELIGION
• in the movie there is a
scene where strong
evidence that the
Catholic religion is
crisitana overcome by
evil .. this scene is
referring display a
message that evil
triumphs over good,
that devils have more
power than God. This
scene can be
misinterpreted
religion and leads be
criticized

16. DARK SIDE

17. • •In the house, windows flew up and down and doors were repeatedly ripped off
their hinges in the house even though they were securely locked.
• •Mrs. Lutz levitated a foot above her bed on several occasions and floated toward
an open window. On one of the occasions, when her husband pulled her back, her
30-year-old face had been transformed into the face of a 90-year-old woman - "the
hair wild, a shocking white, the face a mass of wrinkles and ugly lines and saliva
dripping from the toothless mouth."
• •In the dead of winter, hundreds of buzzing flies materialized in one of the upstairs
rooms of the house.
• •A 12-inch crucifix hung in a closet by Mrs. Lutz revolved until it was upside down
and gave off a sour smell.
• •The insides of the toilet bowls in two upstairs bathrooms turned absolutely black,
"as though someone has painted (them) from the bottom to the edge just below
the rim" even though Mrs. Lutz had recently scrubbed both bowls with Clorox.
• •Lutz discovered a small secret room in the basement, a room that appeared in no
blueprints of the house. It was painted solid red - and had the smell of blood. In one
of the red walls, Lutz saw a vision of a face - a face that he would later find from
newspaper photographs was that of Ronald DeFeo.
• •Every time the family priest would attempt to help the Lutz family, bleeding
blisters would erupt on his hands. Telephone calls between the Lutz family and the
priest were continually interrupted or cut off by loud noises and eerie sounds,
making it impossible for them to communicate.

19. 3:15 am
• George would wake up
around 3:15 every morning
and would go out to check
the boathouse. Later he
would learn that this was
the estimated time of the
DeFeo killings.
• Some people say that the
hours of three and four am
no better grasp of the
spiritual life. For my part
this may be because of the
silence and concentration
at that time but this is
relative to spiritual beings
can be negative (demons)

20. SOUNDTRACK
• 1 Amityville Horror (Main Title)
• 2 Father Delaney
• 3 One Year Later
• 4 Screams
• 5 Windshield
• 6 Kathy's Dream
• 7 Staircase
• 8 Babysitter
• 9 At the Park
• 10 Window
• 11 Ghost
• 12 Wall
• 13 Bleeding Walls
• 14 Ax
• 15 Crucifix
• 16 Postludium
• 17 Amityville Horror (End
Credits)