The Amityville Horror Review

In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz and their three children moved into 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house in Amityville, a suburban neighborhood located on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Thirteen months before the Lutzes moved in, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had shot and killed six members of his family at the house. After 28 days, the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there.

As much as this book was interesting, it was a little too flat —at least with the way the writing moves— for me.

Okay-ish, the book started relatively nice. It was curious as it lays out its foundation with the relationships between the family. This relationship slowly changed, of course, in assistance with the negative energy foreboding the house they moved into, But after a while, it all seems to be nothing but a boring tale with less atmospheric pressure to it than saturn.

I wanted to enjoy this book; to pursue finishing it despite not fully understanding the real purpose why, but I’ve got better books waiting for me on the sides. The thing is, you are better off just watching the film than wasting your time with the book. The book lacks that eerie vibe that we may or may not be looking for in a haunted house book. It has its moments but these moments as Loren Allred says were, “never enough!”

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