The Amityville Horror, the tall tale that gave birth to a horror cottage industry, turns 40.
controversial. For whatever reason, people want, desperately, to believe in spirits. That, more than the effects or the performances, is what lured audiences to theaters in 1979, a couple years after the words “based on a true story” had helped copies of Jay Anson’s ostensibly nonfiction bookis not nonfiction because it is about a family surviving a haunted house, and, again, ghosts are not real.
The spooky incidents get increasingly violent and unpredictable, though they don’t have a strong or coherent through-line either: Presumably, they areBecause they’re so closely based on the incidents in Anson’s book, a lot of the individual scares are never really contextualized or explained. In one instance, Kathy just randomly appears to her husband as if she’s some wrinkled hag, and then the fit passes.
It worked nonetheless, though. Raking in a for-the-time sizable $86 million when it debuted. The whole draw was that it was a true story, something repeated even by Melissa George in the run up to her performance as Kathy Lutz for the 2005 remake starring. So it’s important to remember that it’s basically been a revealed and acknowledged hoax almost since the very beginning. A variety of factual errors and inconsistencies have been pointed out.
One of the major subplots of the movie is the Catholic priest who makes several abortive attempts to bless the house. Interviews with the priest who purportedly did so reveal that he never saw anything out of the ordinary there, and mentions of police response to the hauntings were apparently not important enough to make it into any police reports.
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