Famously Haunted: Amityville

I have to say, most things like this tend to lean heavily in one direction or the other, but this was a well-balanced presentation. The "experts" were level-headed and respected the beliefs of others, acknowledging areas where they could be wrong or interpreting things differently. I could live without the effort to reel in the TikTok crowd, but maybe that's just me showing my age. As the meme says, I watch TikToks as IG reels two weeks later like a grownup... Otherwise, I rather enjoyed it.

There's nothing amazing or unique here, but if you're a fan of the Amityville legend, then it makes a harmless little watch.

It's one of those tv style documentaries that loves to recap, so you can nip off to the kitchen and grab a snack and not really miss anything.

It delves just deep enough into each aspect to keep it moving along without dragging to much over one section. The actual events and phenomena surrounding it make it pretty easy to keep it interesting.

I get the TikTok cross over was to highlight the generational interest, but they didn't blend that well, a small montage would have done.

There's a nice amount of archive footage, maybe a bit to intrusive modern footage and a good variety of vox poppers, so overall it does what it's supposed to do and mildly entertain with a recap of a story you probably already know.

Not much new here. The Tik-Tok stuff was very out of place and detracted from the overall vibe of the story. There are other Amityville docs available that are more interesting.

Coming from someone who is used to seeing only "haunted" supernatural perspectives on this house, this one takes the cake. Pleasantly surprised by the depth of the information, congrats Tubi tv.

Makes complete sense from a supernatural point -inside joke

Well I have nothing more to add, just taking up space for this rediculous characters limit. I don't want to give any further spoilers and anymore input as I'd like to go back to getting stoned now and enjoying the rest of this documentary from Tubi tv, that was T U B I like the app and T V like that thing on the wall with all the moving pictures. PCE.

As most viewers are probably aware, on November 13, 1974, a troubled young man by the name of Ronald DeFeo Jr. Grabbed a shotgun in his house and killed both of his parents and 4 of his siblings in the middle of the night while they slept in their beds The story then picks up a year later with a married couple by the name of George & Kathy Lutz moving into the house with their three children. Slightly less than a month later, they hurriedly abandoned the house in the middle of the night due to what they described as an evil presence which had been tormenting them since the very first day. At least, that is what they maintained in a book published about two years after that--and that is when the mystique actually begins with countless movies being released to capitalize on it. Likewise, there have also been a couple of documentaries produced on this subject, with one released in 2005 under the title of "The Real Amityville Horror" being more detailed than this particular version. At least, that is my opinion. That being the case, while I don't consider this to be a terribly bad documentary necessarily, I don't believe it was nearly as effective as its 2005 predecessor, and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.