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''Amityville'' franchise is a series of films and books that are about a certain HauntedHouse (and later other objects associated with it) that resides in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville. It began with the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'' by Jay Anson that was made into a [[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 film in 1979]].
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The ''Amityville'' franchise is a series of films and books that are about a certain HauntedHouse (and later other objects associated with it) that resides in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville. It began with the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'' by Jay Anson that was made into a [[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 film in 1979]].
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* ''Amitville: Evil Never Dies'' (2017; sequel to ''The Amityville Legacy'')
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [=DeFeo=]'s lawyer claimed it was a hoax, and few if any outside sources corroborate the Lutzes' version of events. Certainly a lot of the backstory attributed to the house (namely, that it was an IndianBurialGround and claims of deaths among previous owners) is either exaggerated or without any apparent basis in fact. The films and books are ''very'' different from what the Lutz family claimed happened as well.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [=DeFeo=]'s lawyer claimed it was a hoax, and few if any outside sources corroborate the Lutzes' version of events. Certainly a lot of the backstory attributed to the house (namely, that it was an IndianBurialGround and claims of deaths among previous owners) is either exaggerated or without any apparent basis in fact. The In any case, the films and books are ''very'' different from what the Lutz family claimed happened as well.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [=DeFeo=]'s lawyer claimed it was a hoax, and few if any outside sources corroborate the Lutzes' version of events. Certainly a lot of the backstory attributed to the house (namely, that it was an IndianBurialGround and claims of deaths among previous owners) is either exaggerated or without any apparent basis in fact. The films and books are ''very'' different from what the Lutz family claimed happened as well.
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house, nor have any subsequent owners.[[note]]As of 2019 the house is still occupied, having been owned by five different families since the Lutzes left.[[/note]] The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors. Indeed, one of the house's most recent owners repainted the exterior, removed the famous quarter-moon windows and changed the address (from 112 to 108 Ocean Avenue) to discourage tourists.
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house, nor have any subsequent owners.[[note]]As of 2019 the house is still occupied, having been owned by five different families since the Lutzes left.[[/note]] The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors. Indeed, one of the house's most recent owners repainted the house's exterior, removed the famous quarter-moon windows and changed the address (from 112 to 108 Ocean Avenue) to discourage tourists.
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house, nor have any subsequent owners.[note]As of 2019 the house is still occupied, having been owned by five different families since the Lutzes left.[/note] The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors. Indeed, one of the house's most recent owners repainted the home's exterior, removed the famous quarter-moon windows and changed the address (from 112 to 108 Ocean Avenue) to discourage tourists.
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house, nor have any subsequent owners.[note]As [[note]]As of 2019 the house is still occupied, having been owned by five different families since the Lutzes left.[/note] [[/note]] The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors. Indeed, one of the house's most recent owners repainted the home's exterior, removed the famous quarter-moon windows and changed the address (from 112 to 108 Ocean Avenue) to discourage tourists.
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house, nor have any subsequent owners.<note>As [note]As of 2019 the house is still occupied, having been owned by five different families since the Lutzes left.</note> [/note] The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors. Indeed, one of the house's most recent owners repainted the home's exterior, removed the famous quarter-moon windows and changed the address (from 112 to 108 Ocean Avenue) to discourage tourists.
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house, nor have any subsequent owners. <note>As of 2019 the house is still occupied, having been owned by five different families since the Lutzes left.</note> The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors.neighbors. Indeed, one of the house's most recent owners repainted the home's exterior, removed the famous quarter-moon windows and changed the address (from 112 to 108 Ocean Avenue) to discourage tourists.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [=DeFeo=]'s lawyer claimed it was a hoax.hoax, and few if any outside sources corroborate the Lutzes' version of events. The films and books are ''very'' different from what the Lutz family claimed happened as well.
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* ''The Amityville Playhouse'' (2015)
* ''Amityville: Vanishing Point'' (2016)
* ''The Amityville Legacy'' (2016)
* ''The Amityville Terror'' (2016)
* ''Amityville: No Escape'' (2016)
* ''Amityville: TheReawakening'' (2016)
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* ''The Amityville Playhouse'' (2015)
* ''Amityville: Vanishing Point'' (2016)
* ''The Amityville Legacy'' (2016)
* ''The Amityville Terror'' (2016)
* ''Amityville: No Escape'' (2016)
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* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with thehouse.house, nor have any subsequent owners. The only "supernatural" issues reported have been curiosity seekers taking pictures, knocking on the door, sitting out front waiting for something spooky to happen, or otherwise bothering the house's owners and their neighbors.
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[[caption-width-right:275:The actual house back in TheSeventies. ]]
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''Amityville'' franchise is a series of films and books that are about a certain HauntedHouse (and later other objects associated with it) that resides in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville. It began with the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'' by Jay Anson that was made into a [[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 film in 1979]].
[[index]]
[[AC:Film]]
* ''[[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 The Amityville Horror]]'' (1979)
* ''Film/AmityvilleIIThePossession'' (1982)
* ''Film/Amityville3D'' (1983)
* ''Film/AmityvilleTheEvilEscapes'' (1989)
* ''Film/TheAmityvilleCurse'' (1990)
* ''Film/AmityvilleItsAboutTime'' (1992)
* ''Film/AmityvilleANewGeneration'' (1993)
* ''Film/AmityvilleDollhouse'' (1996)
* ''[[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror2005 The Amityville Horror]]'' (2005; remake)
* ''The Amityville Haunting'' (2012; by Creator/TheAsylum)
* ''The Amityville Asylum'' (2013)
* ''Amityville: The Reawakening'' (2016)
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'' (1977)
* ''The Amityville Curse'' (1981)
* ''The Amityville Horror Part II'' (1982)
* ''Amityville: The Final Chapter'' (1985)
* ''Amityville: The Evil Escapes'' (1988)
* ''Amityville: The Horror Returns'' (1989)
* ''Amityville: The Nightmare Continues'' (1991)
[[/index]]
!!This movie series contains examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: There was actually an animated 'documentary' made of the original ''Amityville Horror'' movie. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids They even showed it in public schools.]]
* ArtifactsOfDoom: Following the third movie, the house is no longer actually featured as the main setting. Rather, its evil is passed on through certain objects that wind up in new homes, turning them in [[CaptainErsatz ersatz Amityvilles]]. These objects include a clock, a mirror and most ridiculously, a lamp (See Amityville 4 for the last one).
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie:...''maybe''. But the [=DeFeo=] murders really happened though.
* ConsummateLiar: If you believe the whole story is a lie, then the Lutzes are this trope. They took a polygraph, and passed (though it must be noted that polygraphs are [[HollywoodScience less reliable than people think]]).
* FliesEqualsEvil: A recurring theme throughout the books and movies, especially the first movie, ''Amityville 3-D'', and the remake.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Upper windows in the house are portrayed this way.
%%* HauntedHeadquarters
%%* HauntedHouse
* InfantImmortality: Averted and played straight numerous times.
* LovecraftCountry: Although it's Set in Long Island, New York.
* NegativeContinuity: The films. Due to legal issues[[note]]The real-life Lutz family technically owned the sequel rights to the first movie, as a condition of letting it be made[[/note]], none of them are technically allowed to be "real" sequels to the first movie. The filmmakers seem to have run with this and decided not to let any of the sequels have anything to do with each other, either.
** ''Amityville II: The Possession'' is based on the real-life [=DeFeo=] murders, which happened before the events depicted in the first film, but the family is renamed, the movie appears to take place in the 1980s, the layout of the house is different, and the murders happen quite differently than they did in the flashbacks shown in the original.
** ''Amityville 3-D'' includes an explicit disclaimer in the credits stating that it's not a sequel to either of the previous films. The house is slightly different again, especially the basement, and it refers to the [=DeFeos=] by their real name instead of the one used in the previous movie.
** ''Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes'' opens with a scene set in the infamous house, despite the fact that [[spoiler:it blew up at the end of ''Amityville 3-D''.]] Its layout is totally different than in any previous movie.
** ''The Amityville Curse'' is set in a different haunted house entirely that just happens to also be in Amityville.
** ''Amityville 1992: It's About Time'' refers to the iconic house being demolished, as opposed to [[spoiler:blowing itself up.]]
** ''Amityville: A New Generation'' decides that Amityville is now in upstate New York[[note]]It's on Long Island, which all the other films get right[[/note]], and completely re-imagines the [=DeFeo=] murders as something vaguely similar but quite different to suit its own story[[note]]One could possibly argue it's supposed to be a different event, but this still counts as it logically should have been mentioned in a previous film[[/note]].
** ''Amityville Dollhouse'' does not even include a single utterance of the word "Amityville," just a dollhouse that looks like the house from the first three films (for no apparent reason).
* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house.
* NumberedSequels
* {{Premiseville}}
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The hidden room under the house is different between films, but unpleasant and crazy anyhow.
* SupernaturalProofFather
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [=DeFeo=]'s lawyer claimed it was a hoax. The films and books are ''very'' different from what the Lutz family claimed happened as well.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The house doesn't look like the one on the cover. At all.
* FoundFootageFilms
* UndeadChild: John Matthew, the youngest of the [=DeFeo=] children.
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->'''''[-GET OUT-]'''''
''Amityville'' franchise is a series of films and books that are about a certain HauntedHouse (and later other objects associated with it) that resides in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville. It began with the 1977 novel ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'' by Jay Anson that was made into a [[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 film in 1979]].
[[index]]
[[AC:Film]]
* ''[[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror1979 The Amityville Horror]]'' (1979)
* ''Film/AmityvilleIIThePossession'' (1982)
* ''Film/Amityville3D'' (1983)
* ''Film/AmityvilleTheEvilEscapes'' (1989)
* ''Film/TheAmityvilleCurse'' (1990)
* ''Film/AmityvilleItsAboutTime'' (1992)
* ''Film/AmityvilleANewGeneration'' (1993)
* ''Film/AmityvilleDollhouse'' (1996)
* ''[[Film/TheAmityvilleHorror2005 The Amityville Horror]]'' (2005; remake)
* ''The Amityville Haunting'' (2012; by Creator/TheAsylum)
* ''The Amityville Asylum'' (2013)
* ''Amityville: The Reawakening'' (2016)
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'' (1977)
* ''The Amityville Curse'' (1981)
* ''The Amityville Horror Part II'' (1982)
* ''Amityville: The Final Chapter'' (1985)
* ''Amityville: The Evil Escapes'' (1988)
* ''Amityville: The Horror Returns'' (1989)
* ''Amityville: The Nightmare Continues'' (1991)
[[/index]]
!!This movie series contains examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: There was actually an animated 'documentary' made of the original ''Amityville Horror'' movie. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids They even showed it in public schools.]]
* ArtifactsOfDoom: Following the third movie, the house is no longer actually featured as the main setting. Rather, its evil is passed on through certain objects that wind up in new homes, turning them in [[CaptainErsatz ersatz Amityvilles]]. These objects include a clock, a mirror and most ridiculously, a lamp (See Amityville 4 for the last one).
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie:...''maybe''. But the [=DeFeo=] murders really happened though.
* ConsummateLiar: If you believe the whole story is a lie, then the Lutzes are this trope. They took a polygraph, and passed (though it must be noted that polygraphs are [[HollywoodScience less reliable than people think]]).
* FliesEqualsEvil: A recurring theme throughout the books and movies, especially the first movie, ''Amityville 3-D'', and the remake.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Upper windows in the house are portrayed this way.
%%* HauntedHeadquarters
%%* HauntedHouse
* InfantImmortality: Averted and played straight numerous times.
* LovecraftCountry: Although it's Set in Long Island, New York.
* NegativeContinuity: The films. Due to legal issues[[note]]The real-life Lutz family technically owned the sequel rights to the first movie, as a condition of letting it be made[[/note]], none of them are technically allowed to be "real" sequels to the first movie. The filmmakers seem to have run with this and decided not to let any of the sequels have anything to do with each other, either.
** ''Amityville II: The Possession'' is based on the real-life [=DeFeo=] murders, which happened before the events depicted in the first film, but the family is renamed, the movie appears to take place in the 1980s, the layout of the house is different, and the murders happen quite differently than they did in the flashbacks shown in the original.
** ''Amityville 3-D'' includes an explicit disclaimer in the credits stating that it's not a sequel to either of the previous films. The house is slightly different again, especially the basement, and it refers to the [=DeFeos=] by their real name instead of the one used in the previous movie.
** ''Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes'' opens with a scene set in the infamous house, despite the fact that [[spoiler:it blew up at the end of ''Amityville 3-D''.]] Its layout is totally different than in any previous movie.
** ''The Amityville Curse'' is set in a different haunted house entirely that just happens to also be in Amityville.
** ''Amityville 1992: It's About Time'' refers to the iconic house being demolished, as opposed to [[spoiler:blowing itself up.]]
** ''Amityville: A New Generation'' decides that Amityville is now in upstate New York[[note]]It's on Long Island, which all the other films get right[[/note]], and completely re-imagines the [=DeFeo=] murders as something vaguely similar but quite different to suit its own story[[note]]One could possibly argue it's supposed to be a different event, but this still counts as it logically should have been mentioned in a previous film[[/note]].
** ''Amityville Dollhouse'' does not even include a single utterance of the word "Amityville," just a dollhouse that looks like the house from the first three films (for no apparent reason).
* NewHouseNewProblems: As noted in the description. Interestingly, the ''next'' owners after the Lutz reported absolutely no such problems with the house.
* NumberedSequels
* {{Premiseville}}
* RoomFullOfCrazy: The hidden room under the house is different between films, but unpleasant and crazy anyhow.
* SupernaturalProofFather
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [=DeFeo=]'s lawyer claimed it was a hoax. The films and books are ''very'' different from what the Lutz family claimed happened as well.
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!!''The Reawakening'' has examples of:
* CoversAlwaysLie: The house doesn't look like the one on the cover. At all.
* FoundFootageFilms
* UndeadChild: John Matthew, the youngest of the [=DeFeo=] children.
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