The Amityville Horror 2005

[MrMan]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/the_amityville_horror/large.html

http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/the_amityville_horror/trailer_2/large.html

I reckon it looks good, even though Micheal Bay is behind it, but i actually quite like his films. The new Texas Chainsaw was pretty cool, and the trailers and early word on this one suggest this might be too...I'd also be interested to see if Ryan Reynolds can be plausable as a serious character

 

[Korgoth]

Yeah, liked the original, and as boring as my life is, I'm sure i'll end up watching this one too

On a side note, is anyone disgusted at the sheer number of movie remakes coming out in the next two years?

 

[xLostx]

It has Ryan Reynolds in it, I like it already

 

[Killing2Live]

I like the song so the movie must be good

(For you guys wondering Amityville-Eminem)

 

[Fishlore]

Like the remake of TCM, I'm sure this remake will be absolute trash too. It's Hollywood afterall, what do you expect?

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Has anyone in the general public ever said to themselves "You know would be great? If they remade that 'meh' ghost movie that had too many sequels!" ?

Edit: and didn't the story end up being a hoax, thus making it not true?

 

[Sparta]

Has anyone in the general public ever said to themselves "You know would be great? If they remade that 'meh' ghost movie that had too many sequels!" ?

Edit: and didn't the story end up being a hoax, thus making it not true?

Lemme see if i can find that link.... hang on

Here ya go

http://www.warrens.net/amityvill.htm

I read the 2nd book of it, very good, scared the crap outta me.

Background: The problems at the Amityville house seemed to stem from the Ronald DeFeo murders on November 13, 1974. Mr. DeFeo hated his father and had plotted to kill him--he’d even worked out a scheme by which he could do so. Mr. DeFeo was on drugs, and his father knew about it. Later he said that there was a shadow ghost alongside of him during the killings which compelled him to shoot his two brothers and his sister at 3:15 am on November 13, 1974. Although the houses in this quiet Amityville neighborhood were only 40 feet apart, no neighbors awoke during the shootings. All of the victims were found on their stomachs. The Warrens believe that the victims were in a state of phantomania, which in effect paralyzed them, making them unable to cry out for help.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I know the original murder spree was true.

All the stuff afterwards wasn't though.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/amityville.html

"Kaplan had discovered that the “Amityville Horror” was pure invention. In 1979, a lawyer named William Weber confessed to his part in the hoax during a paranormal radio show hosted by author Joel Martin. Weber had been the lawyer for convicted killer Ronald DeFeo and he admitted that he and George Lutz had concocted the story of the haunting over a few bottles of wine. Weber’s motive was to get a new trial for DeFeo, using a “Devil made him do it” defense. According to Weber, Lutz merely wanted to get out from under a mortgage that he couldn’t afford. His business was in trouble and he needed a scheme to bail him out.

Kaplan found ample proof, outside of the glaring confession, that the story was a hoax. He gained access to the house on many occasions and found that the so-called “Red Room”, where the book claimed occult ceremonies took place, was nothing more than a small pipe well that gave access to them if they needed to be repaired. No “demonic face” had ever appeared on the bricks inside of the fireplace. He also noted that the original front door of the house (blown off its hinges in the book) was still in place and intact. In addition, he found a writer for the local newspaper that had also been suspicious of the story. After some searching, the columnist discovered that the Lutz’s had returned the day after “fleeing” from the house to hold a garage sale. He also charged that during their “28-day nightmare” that never once called the police for assistance, something that would have been commonly done under the circumstances. The list of things that did not happen in the house went on and on and to Kaplan (and to most everyone who listened to his rational arguments), the evidence for an “Amityville Hoax” was overwhelming.

Jim and Barbara Cromarty, who later moved into the house, also maintained that it was not haunted. Because of the problems they had experienced with the curiosity-seekers, they sued the hardcover and paperback publishers of the “Amityville Horror”, as well as Jay Anson and George and Kathy Lutz. They stated that the entire case had been a put-on from the beginning and it had “blighted their lives”. The suit was later settled with the new occupants for an undisclosed amount."

 

[SimonomiS]

Guess your not going to watch it Mecha?

 

[Doppelgofer]

the original was awful in my opinion and after the car wreck remake of texas chainsaw massacre of which the original is infact a masterpiece and a true sense of the genre 'horror film', that bay produced, i'm staying away from this attrocity to mankind unless someone i trust informs me its a little better than someone ass being split open by channel 4 news