Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

koffskeyj The makers of this film should be ashamed of enabling and exploiting a man with obvious mental illness. But after watching, it seems they themselves are likely too out of touch to even realize their mistake. In reality this is a documentary about a man with countless unresolved issues from childhood that he has carried into his 50s; issues that have only compounded as he has aged.

jdabbott51-318-439916 I'm giving this movie five stars. For the first forty five minutes of the film I was thinking it was more like a one star movie. My respect for the film grew as I continued to watch it. At one point in the film, Lorraine Warren said about George Lutz, that one needed "a lot of padding to deal with him." Funnily enough, I thought this was a great description of Daniel Lutz of whom is the main subject in this documentary. Throughout the film, Daniel Lutz, kind've dishes the goods on his now deceased stepfather. However, he also seems to embody all of the brooding, dark, narcissistic qualities he hated about his step father. More than anything, there's this sense of a damaged man. He's super macho, shifty, evasive and seems to be having this self pity party. He's clearly putting on a very cool guy image for the film. It's hard to connect with him let alone believe him. He flips out over being asked to take something as simple as a lie detector test. He's obviously exaggerating his experiences and he lays on this thick level of intensity in everything he says to the point that you fear for anyone that dare question him. He seems to be doing okay in his life, and yet he acts as if he's completely been screwed over.By the end of the movie, one kind've walks away to see that behind all of the sensationalism of one of the biggest mass media tales of the 1980's, there was a very real family tied up in it all. Tragically, all of the hoopla from the mass media frenzy even seems to have implanted this major confusion and identity crisis on the people who were involved. Throughout the film, you realize that Danny Lutz, is both trying to reveal himself to be a real person, and at the same time, almost acting out some anti-hero protagonist character in the very movies he proclaims to hate. You can't help but sense a real lack of authenticity from him. He doesn't want to be the Amityvill kid. But when you put the camera's on him, he's very much the amityville kid on hyper overdrive. They interview and tape discussions with all of these paranormal investigators, some of whom don't even seem to believe the events at Amityville occurred.Then there's all of these weird scenes with Danny dropping all of these crazy guitar solos. Did Danny agree to do this movie to launch his music career? Admittedly they're pretty good licks, but it's for a genre of metalhead music that hit it's peak in the early nineties and has declined ever since. This only furthers the understanding that this poor guy is doomed to always be stuck in the past.

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.

abanahasky73 I went into this movie open minded and whatever the protagonist objective was it surely wasn't what i expected.When making a documentary about the odd and unusual events that happened to you growing up i would expect that in some way you tried to persuade me that the events and paranormal happenings...Well..actually happened.However the more i watched, the more i was convinced that the documentary was a therapy session that revolved around him challenging people to call B_llsh*t on the whole thing.I can only conclude that Danny believed in his mind that the events actually transpired the way he told the story to viewers but buyer beware....You will be left feeling more skeptical than believing in my opinion.