Amityville: An Origin Story

If anything, this documentary debunks the entire "haunting" aspect of the Amityville fable. I post "fable" because that's what it's become.

CLEARLY, this documentary exposes what a goldmine George Lutz found in a normal house with a terrible history. They made up a story and raked in income year after year after year because of it. The Lutz family was clearly used to perpetuate the fable and thus the income. THere's NO METION of how George or Kathy Lutz ever made any income OTHER than due to the conjured fable of the haunted house.

More power to them.... after all.. there's one born every minute, right.

I find it rather interesting how so many think the original move was factual.. I mean do they believe other films in that era were factual?? Was Star Wars a biography??? Alien a factual account of another planet?? Life of Brian a true tale of mistaken identity?? The Amityville Horror was a work of fiction.. designed to generate money. It was not a factual telling of real life occurrences.

This documentary is rather boring. One keeps waiting for some revelation that never comes. Basically if you believe the "hokum" of the haunting, you can read into enough pieces to perhaps support that belief - but you have to dismiss a great deal as well. If one is of a critical mind, this merely exposes everything which was done to proliferate the profits.

Meh.. it's only 4 episodes.. I certainly would never go seeking this out and pay to see it.. but if you've got MGM+ anyway.....

This was one of the most interesting documentary films I've ever seen . I'm a huge horror fan and am very interested in Real life cases . After watching this it sort of gets you to believe the haunting. What's sad though is the real crime that happened prior to the family moving in . Its amazing how many photos and film they produced for the documentary, which makes it even more compelling . Remember watching The Amitiville horror as a kid but never did I ever think it could be true . Anyway I don't know what else I can say apart from give it a watch for yourselves , preferably late at night .

This is a very informative, well researched series. My only complaint is the lighting of the interviews. Maybe the color scheme of the interviews are meant to be reminiscent of the mid '70's. OK, fine but turn the lights on so we can see who is talking! The camera movement and compositions are great but you can't see the people talking. It makes no sense. There is a good balance of interviews with people who knew the families and archival information. I was unaware of several details in the story. Such as the father-in-law connection to the mob. Curious if the filmmakers have done other stuff and if they lit the interviews.