I think I'm seeing it this weekend....I'll be so scared ...who's gonna hold my hand?

I think I'm seeing it this weekend....I'll be so scared ...who's gonna hold my hand?

Ocean said:

I am SO the man for that job!

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Did anyone see it this weekend?

I just did and thought it rocked. It wasn't a masterpiece by any means, but for a thrill ride horror flick it was pretty effective. My girlfriend was screaming threw the entire movie (as was most of the audience). Forget the "True Story" shit and just go to see a fun haunted house movie.

One thing...we saw a lot families in the audience...some with little kids (like 5 years old). The poor kids were crying...its definitely NOT for kids. You gotta wonder what people are thinking sometimes.

I went this weekend and I found it to be quite disturbing for some reason. Johnny Knoxville was perfect for the part and I thought it was a good remake of the original.

I really enjoyed the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

But all in all a nice movie for kids (there's nothing gory or shocking in it...)

AzureStarr said:

Saw it lat night, it was crap of course, but I didn't see Johnny Knoxville in it...
Only thing rather funny was when the guy was watching his homemade movies and the face of that annoying little sack of shit changed...
But all in all a nice movie for kids (there's nothing gory or shocking in it...)

Neversin.

Neversin said:

I agree. The movie was a steaming pile of turds. There are scarier things on Saturday morning cartoons.

Not only did they decide to remake The Amityville Horror, they also decided to remake Poltergeist, Poltergeist II and The Shining (with a stolen scene from A Nightmare On Elm Street

To.

JediMaster said:

what did they steal from NOTS?

purplegypsy said:

The bathtub scene! Other than the hand not having the Freddy glove on it, and it being a male instead of female, the scene was virtually identical.

Possessed?I am absolutely livid! (Sunday Star April 24th page 42)

The former owner of The Amityville Horror house is to sue the makers- for making him too horrific.
George Lutz, whose family fled their infamous haunted home, says hes been defamed by MGM.
In the grisly remake, which topped the us box office last week, his character terrorises his wife and stepchildren and hacks the family dog to death with an axe.
It has left Lutz raging over the scenes he says never happened.
"Theyve made me look like a bloodthirsty maniac and im fuming"he raged.
"Its appalling they could do this to anyone. They have turned fact, which was horific enough, into part-fiction"
Lutz, now 66 , insists he and his family saw green slime oozing from the walls of the notorious house in Ocean Avenue, Amityville after they bought it for £42,000 in 1975.
He says they were plagued by the sound of an invisible marching band, swarms of flies and foul odours which drifted through the house.
"I guess stuff like that, which was actually terrifying, doesnt rank as spooky enough these days"he rapped.
A year before the Lutzs moved in, Ronald Defeo Jr, then 23, shot dead his whole family in the house as they slept.
Defeo, who was jailed for 150 years, claimed he was ordered to commit the murders by evil spirits in the house which was supposedly built on an indian burial ground.

A best selling book on the DeFeo killings and the Lutzs plight was published in 1977 spawning the 1979 film and six sequels.

Actor Ryan Reynolds who plays George in the new version said "I d never worked with rage before and this guy Lutz is rageful"

But Lutz, a former US marine, stormed "I wasn't full of rage then but I am now, and I'm consulting my lawyer. I think what MGM have done is beyond brutal. They have added fictitious scenes on to what was supposed to be based on factual happenings"
The Lutzs say they suffered 28 days and nights of terror before packing their bags and leavind.
A spokesman for MGM refused to comment.

Haven't seen remake yet

purplegypsy said:

Go see it! I think it's even better than the original

JediMaster said:

Haven't seen remake yet...don't recall bathtub scene in original amityville

This movie was fucking horrible.

LAALALALALALALALALALA I lived in AMITYVILLE half my life I've been to the house walked by it and we use to visit an elderly woman who lived across the street every week tuesday nights....and the house was never NEVER scary it was just like sad looking.....nobiggie NEXT THREAD

AcutenPetiteGrl said:

Okay. So your take is that it never was haunted? Share some of your knowledge of the case, since you're a local. I'm pretty undecided on this one.

JediMaster said:

creepy stuff did happen in the house...but its been blown out of proportion saying that at night you can see the windows light up in diff colors sillys tuff like that. The guy who lives there now says that nothing has happened there in the time he has been there and hes lived there for many years now. The town of amityville thinks its just another house like any other. Yet! An old friend of my mothers...(shes an elderly woman now) lived in Amityville all her life and she use to be a school bus driver. She took the young man who killed the family on the bus to school when he was younger. She told us that he was never okay up here *taps head-* he was very strange and that it didnt surprise her when she found out what he did a few years later. What happened in the late seventies with the second family that moved in, did occur. They were very spooked and never looked back again. As of now tho the house is just there and nothing has really happened. People just like tom ake things up. But at night time I do admit its pretty cool drving by cause around that area it gets foggy a lot since its by the beach...But nothing major. Sorry didnt post earlier.