As DeFeo was being sentenced, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the Amityville house with their three kids at a bargain price ...

at the infamous house on 112 Ocean Avenue portrayed in The Amityville Horror (1979), the eldest son of Ronald and Louise DeFeo--the troubled twenty-three-year-old, Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr ...

Convinced that the horrible rumours about the bloody DeFeo murders and the evil Amityville House are nothing but an elaborate hoax, the inquisitive Reveal Magazine journalist, John Baxter ...

The Amityville Horror, a horror movie based on the infamous real-life story, has become a franchise and an influence on modern horror greats (and not-so-greats). But it has left a strange legacy.