SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

horsegoggles Mom and dad get divorced. Mom finds a new hubby. Daniel starts having trouble with all the changes. Mom and new dad have leanings toward the supernatural, probably what brought them together. New dad has some financial issues that he hasn't disclosed. Soon after moving into the new home mom and dad come to the realization that they are in over their heads, need to get out of the predicament they have created for themselves. Hey, there were people killed in this house, I'll bet spooks could help us out of this predicament. They may have picked this particular house specifically because people were killed in it, their plans may have had deeper roots. We haven't been given enough info to know for sure. Dad sets up an already disturbed Daniel by feeding him ghost stories, Daniel finds them a great release for his unresolved anger. It's working out for everyone. Mom and dad start making some bucks off of the notoriety and ghosts have gotten them off the hot seat. Daniels anger builds and after a while he has started believing his own stuff. Bring in someone who wants to make a documentary, lets squeeze some more cash out of this if we can. Daniel picks up a few bucks by embarrassing himself in front of the camera and his inability to separate fact from fiction becomes known to the world. The siblings are tired of the fiasco and would probably like to get as far from this mess as possible. It's about disturbances, but not the supernatural kind. Actually a pretty sad affair.

tennisplaya3283 The documentary itself addressed some good points about the Lutz family. Is it possible they were experiencing financial trouble? Was George Lutz into sadistic occults? Danny Lutz was the main focus of the documentary, which was the mistake of the producers. The emotions seemed WAY too exaggerated and forced, which made me skeptical of his words. It wouldn't have been as bad if they would have taken bits and pieces of what he said to paint a picture of what happened, but don't let him keep talking in front of a camera. Towards the end, a producer/camera man asked if we was willing to take a lie detector test. Danny Lutz became very abrasive and defensive. It was to the point that the producer was defending himself over the question he asked, but it was mainly that Danny Lutz was avoiding an answer to the question. Simple as that.If the film's purpose was to make me even more of a skeptic, it worked.

Joe Nevermind the reviews that say this documentary is boring, making up stories for attention, nonsense, etc. It's a story straight from the source, not just another documentary. It's not a Hollywood movie or scripted story. What you see is what you get. For those who don't know, the Lutz family was the family who came after the murder family known as Defeo family. The movies were even focused on the Lutz family. Just look at the character names in the movie. Furthermore, Daniel Lutz's story in this documentary is a big deal if your fascinated with the Amityville hauntings. Like the guy or not, believe in his story or not, he is the real deal. He may be an adult now, but it took him many many years to tell his childhood traumatic story. If he was out for attention, why did it take him so long? I'm not one to believe in ghosts and such as I'm a skeptic, however I believed that this guy believed in his story. You can just tell by the way he's in tears and takes pauses before continuing. Is it possible he's a lunatic and that's why he believed it? Sure. That doesn't mean he's lying though.

C.H Newell Just a short review, but I did enjoy this documentary for the most part. It's shot like most documentaries between talking heads, interviews with Daniel Lutz and others, as well as Lutz playing many styles of guitar in little shots to fill spaces. The man tells his story of being a young boy at the time of the supposed hauntings his family, the Lutz', experienced while living in Amityville after the DeFeo murders. He has obviously been haunted in one way or another, and depending on your views of the supernatural, you might lean more to one side. Daniel was clearly damaged, but significantly more so by the way his mother and his stepfather George Lutz took the chance to go national with their stories of hauntings in the Amityville home, and no matter how much he claims there were supernatural going ons while they lived there it is very evident the family drama going on surrounding everything that had supposedly happened was the most crippling dilemma in Daniel's young life.All in all, I give this documentary an 7 out of 10 stars. It's well shot, and interesting. The only thing which holds me back from giving any more stars to this review is subject matter itself: Daniel is a bit of a jerk, and I understand these events he perceives as having happened are certainly what constitute having a traumatic deal with life, but he agreed to do the documentary, and spends moments snarling at crew members. One particularly off-putting moment was when they visited an older lady (Lorraine Warren) who was close with Daniel, and she asked them if anyone on the crew did not believe in God because her intentions were to unveil a supposed holy relic (a piece of the cross Jesus was crucified on, I believe) to everyone present; Daniel gets a bit unruly about how everyone reacts to being questioned about this, and says if they don't say so now he'll "call them out on it later", which struck me as a bit of a tough guy move. His personality can be awfully rotten at times, and for a guy who acts like he wants to be a part of the documentary, he simultaneously tries to embody an attitude of a guy who wants to tell everyone to get lost, hiding from the media; overall, he is a confused man, or perhaps he also is trying to get his 15 minutes. Either way, objectively it's a decent to good documentary, and highly recommended for anyone interested in the Amityville hauntings, as I have been for some years now.