My Amityville Horror

Synopsis: For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975. George and Kathleen Lutz's story went on to inspire a best-selling novel and the subsequent films have continued to fascinate audiences today. This documentary reveals the horror behind growing up as part of a world famous haunting and while Daniel's facts may be other's fiction, the psychological scars he carries are indisputable. Documentary filmmaker, Eric Walter, has combined years of independent research into the Amityville case along with the perspectives of past investigative reporters and eyewitnesses, giving way to the most personal testimony of the subject to date.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Eric Walter
Production: IFC Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
88 min
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there are stories about this that

haven't been told

me for be is my prayer that everyone in

this room never goes

by you know someone that

that does the Hardison for those people

who this whose Lawson do you communicate

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fine you collagen help

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arguing it's not

its non-interest

it happens and monitors you

you will become millions

you know what my therapist's not too

long ago

asked to me if

I could in less than a sentence

destroyed

what

board described were label these

experiences

all I can come up with in the first

thing that came up with and have been

able to find anything better than

and is in unfortunate gift in my life

cited tone

this not something I asked for achieved

our

or anything like that so when this was

when I'm going through experiences that

I am now going to coach

priest at church and he's looking at me

like boy what is wrong with you

you know I knew my life was

was turned into something that I had no

control I became

change it's it's not easy to do

tell somebody how you got thrown up that

staircase

it's not easy to tell somebody that

you're dead

was bouncing off the ceilings because

the headboard posts or

jammed into the sheep weekend

stage we've got black toilets and we've

got thousands of lives

this is just like you like a f***ing

karnal

I'm getting a little time

right now

this is not something I'm sorry discuss

I don't look forward because once I

start talking about it even just to

bring you

back to a moment for a moment I B common

stock with

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you know my mom used to tell me that

good things happen to good people and

bad things happen to bad people

and sometimes bad things happen to good

people too

the Amityville house appears to be quite

peaceful now

is that no evidence that any strange

occurrences here

since the lights family fled more than

twenty years ago

house is not wanted it never was

appointed

it was a money making good it is

definitely not folks back home has been

exercised

was it really ahora was a hoax

perpetrated

on the world which still remains

mystified by the tales a bizarre

happenings

in a quiet house in a comparable Long

Island community I've never introduced

myself as that person

the guy from an okay ever you had to be

something completely different

I was somebody completely different then

went for the most part I still am

what who were you before Amityville

who were you I was

analyst wriggle idk you know went to

school

I told mom I was going to when I

was I was enrolled in school okay and

what did you do instead

before revealing get intellectual

happy stuff you okay I don't know you

okay go ahead on your right

and I kinda need to know a couple things

about you that because I'm not want to

just sit in

down and start sharing stories okay i'd

I thought I respect that

alright so good I kinda need to know

like what's the most dramatic thing

that's ever happened to you

the most romantic thing that's ever

happened to me arm

I think the most romantic thing that's

ever happened to me was moving

when I was 13 from one country to

another okay I think that was

for me and I was pretty scary an

overwhelming I moved here

United States i right on

but to for me to sit here knowing that

the most dramatic thing from view was

moved from one comes

to another and readjusting and you want

me to sit here and I'm gonna start

talking about

possessions annexes and bouncing off his

feelings

is not gonna be these thing for me to do

because I know you're only gonna be able

to connect with me

that in in well let me say this to you

and you're absolutely right I'm not

going to ever be able to know what you

did when three that some possibly

understand right are

I'm in what I do for a living as a

psychologist

I have connects with many people in so

many different situations that I'm

much much many enter and I never okay

always respectful

what people's life experiences have been

is there someone that you're hoping to

benefit from

from doing most I would have to say my

children

ok I want you can't 1917 hard tough

have a spoken to you at all about it yes

have and and and they are concerned

that's you know someday I get past

you feel like you have you haven't I'm

ready to

not something that I asked for I didn't

achieve this

it's not an accomplishment in my life so

wish to be associated have anything

this has been following

my entire life I've been running away

from

and it finally caught up to me and I

couldn't hide

ok

i sat down with my mom and I told her I

said I I have to go

I left and

went to go find my own place in the

world I didn't want to

you know be the Amityville Horror kid

everywhere that I know people have

preconceived notions

me I didn't want to deal with it

so I would just Wanderley find places

where nobody you mean

tryin work my way into a community

alright well

I was born Daniel Edward quarantine on

in 1965

in West Balam Long Island New York

my father and my mother were high school

sweethearts

on like one of those from

back see incidences they were married

very young

very family oriented you know the the

family's only lived a couple blocks away

from each other

it was my world and which

what I know and my mom and dad

got divorced I don't know I guess I was

7 and a halfish when

the divorce was actually final and

dad moved out on with his life and and

we're not gonna Grandma and Grandpa's on

Sunday anymore there was this period of

time where I really didn't know where I

fit in anymore

what to do with myself it helped me get

closer with my mother did actually

strengthened our relationship

I had assumed a lot of no

responsibilities

you know I was watchin my brother and my

sister

and was responsible for the house and

then

george was introduced into this yeah I

which

a a there was maybe year

for some you know my mom went out with a

couple guys burnt

she like George george was an ex-marine

recently divorced on a house

had a carry permit had shoppers

and family business and bolts

Corvettes and you know you was very well

to do guy

somewhere along the line after my mother

had met George

between georgian my father there was in

agreements

you would met only marry my mother if

you get it legally adopted three kids

with the name change in the Social

Security and birth certificates and

yeah he was gonna put his name in label

on something that wasn't

ultimately his you know that's when I

just started destroying disguise world

every opportunity that I walked into

just do anything

to get him that we could go back all

let's put it this way

I don't think it was the Brady Bunch I

was somebody

that at the time for a couple of years

they became familiar with

but I actually saw these kids and

interacted with them

in their home I was just I was sorta a

presence

when I was there I certainly wasn't

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Eric Walter

Eric Walter (born March 23, 1950) is a researcher of statistics and parameter estimation in the French laboratory Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (UMR 8506). more…

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