1. was one of the murder victims really named Jodie? UPDATE: NO
2. did reverand Jeremiah really torture indians in that basement? UPDATE: DOUBTFUL
3. did DeFeo really commit the murders only 28 days of being in the house? i thought it was longer after. UPDATE: NO
june262004
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1. I believe one of the sisters was jodie Maybe?
2. dont know I read somewhere that it was an ancient indian burial ground.
3. No I don't think so Thats how long the Lutez family lived there.
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omg jess, not ANOTHER thread about the amityville house!!!???
j/k...
seriously though, I don't know much about the history behind the whole thing...all I know is from what I remember about the original movie....and what i remember from that is the blood coming out of the walls...and something with the windows.... sorry couldn't help ya with your ??'s
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lol all the threads made me wonder some things. (as did seeing the movie)
kris... yeah i know.. the NEW movie ( ) said that on the 28th day Robert DeFeo murdered his family... and trying not to give too much away they were implying in the NEW movie ( ) that George Lutz was going to commit murder on his 28th day there.
god, the more i think about it the more mad i get at how fake the remake was. if i can even call it a remake!
the Lutz' in real life are gonna be soooooo pissed when they see this.
eta: i read an article in PEOPLE with George Lutz. They did not ask the family if they could do this movie. Cant the Lutz' sue them for using their names? and basically making them look like idiots?
Also I was reading on the MTV website that during the tapings The lights went on in the house and no one was there. And that George Lutz' wife Just dropped dead!
Also I was reading on the MTV website that during the tapings The lights went on in the house and no one was there. And that George Lutz' wife Just dropped dead!
Also I was reading on the MTV website that during the tapings The lights went on in the house and no one was there. And that George Lutz' wife Just dropped dead!
the REAL wife died?!?! huh?! lol
Ya that the REAL wife just dropped dead!
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did she? but she wasnt aroudn during filming! damn i wish i didnt through that mag out
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omg kristin you have to see the new movie! youll die!
june262004
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Thats what was strange! They live(d) in Las Vegas know. And during the filming she just died.
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oooh. hmm. strange. i hate the not knowing if anything really DID happen to the Lutz' in that house or not. i thought they admitted to it as a hoax, but in PEOPLE mag he was saying how 'people call my family story a hoax' ... so im sooo confused. i thought i knew alot more about it than i do!
eta: one of my teachers lives right behind teh house... (or something like that. i know theres a lake) and he says it was all fake. who knows. (not that he would really know concrete facts)
eta: it also says in the new film that Butch murdered their dog before murdernig the family... in the link you sent me it says that the dog was barking but didnt distract him. he didnt even kill the dog
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Well the murders definetly happened! BUT anything else who knows! I googled it and some cool things came up.
A family lives there now So it couldn't be to bad? I know my friends parents lived across the street for 2 weeks and moved out because 'strange things' happened. Who Knows.
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yeah i remember you saying that! thats so creepy! and to only give it 2 weeks! yikes!
was alot of Long Island indian burial ground? my uncle told me my old house (where my grandma lives) was built on it. and her house has creepy stuff always happening. i dont know if he was lieing to me or not. i was a kid.
im gonna google it in a minute too. gotta finish cleanign b4 dh gets home!
In the true story (at least, some believe it to be true) that inspired 'The Amityville Horror,' George Lutz woke up demonized every night at 3:15 a.m., the exact time a boy living in his house a year earlier killed his family.
After the first night of shooting the 2005 version, inspired by the same 1977 book that spawned 1979's first 'Amityville' movie, actress Melissa George ('Alias') woke up in the middle of the night and glanced at her clock. It was 3:15.
'That was scary for me, but I laughed,' George said on the Buffalo Grove, Illinois, set of the movie in October. 'I thought it was quite funny.'
George laughed less a few weeks later when security guards on the set called the director one night to report that all of the lights in the 'Amityville' house had been turned on and nobody was found inside. And it was certainly not funny when the real George Lutz's wife passed away suddenly during filming.
Slightly freaked, the cast went on and finished the movie, but those experiences never left their minds.
From: George Lutz Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 1:20 pm To: Chris Cashman Subject: 'Amityville'
Dear Chris Cashman,
My name is George Lutz and I am the subject of various statements and I assume quotes of the article reprinted below. These statements that were attributed to me are not true. I was not interviewed or contacted by anyone associated with your organization.
Furthermore, I did NOT sign an agreement with Dimension films to remake the first movie...... the agreement does not reflect any such language as MGM has historically maintained that they have those specific rights. When I questioned through my attorney their intent to do a remake they sued me.
I do not ever recall using the words that 'I hated the first movie'...... I wish I had at times when asked about it, but I have certainly expressed my family's concern about it's inaccuracies and embellishments.
This statement/quote: 'Lutz, who has said that the remake will be more truthful to his family's experience in the home.'... this is fabrication in the extreme. The people making this movie have chosen once again ( as they did when they made the first version) not to involve me or my family. I have no idea what kind of a movie they are making and they do not want us to know. They spent many months earlier this year promising to invite me to their offices for discussions, and cited 'scheduling problems' with the writer and Mr. Bay as the reasons for the delays that continued month after month in these proposed 'discussions'.
There did come a point when I expressed my concern about issues that I had hoped to discuss with them and that the delays meeting with them were forcing me to contact MGM directly (which we did)... but my only take on their intentions at this point is the one they created... they have chosen to deal with the story my family lived through with complete disregard for the whatever effect this may have upon us. They could have made a truthful, factual and accurate movie.... We as a family have always believed that is what should be done. I should add here that they 'may' say they are trying to do just that, but I have to ask 'HOW?' do you do that without any involvement personally by those who lived it.
When you are dealing with 'life rights' in any forum there will always be distortions and we have spent 25 years living with and trying to undo the first movies effects caused by these kinds of acts of indifference and intellectual dishonesty... even taken further, the movie going public has the .... right.... to see this portrayal accurately, not with the outrageous events that writers and directors create because they want to.
I have no reason to believe that a faithful reflection of Jay Anson's book is the path they have chosen and I wonder why anyone with a true story would ever deal with MGM or Michael Bay productions if this is how they conduct business. Until such a time as I am shown otherwise by these people, the success they created for themselves here with this production will be a shallow excuse for the public trust they disregard and the damage that they do. In the future, I can only hope that the true story will be done by someone that cares enough to with integrity less the artistic license employed by others.
I do request you retract the following in your next publication.
'Last year George Lutz signed an agreement with Dimension Films to remake the first movie. Lutz, who reportedly hated the first film that starred James Brolin, has said that the remake will be more truthful to his family's experience in the home'.
I would and do further request that the source for this statement be clearly referred to in the retraction.
