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  • Summary: For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Drew Taylor
    Mar 15, 2013
    91
    The results are a disturbing mixture of paranormal ghost story and psychological unease.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Mar 12, 2013
    70
    Whether it was all a haunting or a hoax is left unanswered, but the film leaves little doubt that Amityville's greatest source of evil was, fundamentally, parental in nature.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Mar 14, 2013
    60
    The blurring of fact and fiction has been a part of the Amityville saga since it became public, but for Lutz there's no gray area in his memories, whose power is undiminished.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Mar 14, 2013
    30
    These days, when paranormal-themed shows are all over television, Mr. Lutz sounds like just another guy peddling an unverifiable spooky story.

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  1. Stubie6
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    The producers of this interview/documentary hybrid try very hard to empathise with the subject Daniel Lutz. Unfortunately he and the other characters interviewed appear superficial and self-indulgent, all the while painting bigger demons of Daniel's family, atheists and agnostics than they do the supposed demons they claim haunted the Lutz family at the Amityville house.… Expand

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