AAmityville is a village along the south shore of Long Island in the state of New York. Its location on a U.S. map can be seen here. The Lutzes' Amityville house was located at 112 Ocean Avenue. It has since been renovated, and it's said that the address has been changed to keep away the curious. The house that was used for the exterior shots is located in Toms River, New Jersey. It, too, has since been renovated. The barn-shaped roof and those "evil-eyed" windows were simply fitted to the house for the movie to make it look more like the house described in the book.
QIs "The Amityville Horror" a true story?
AWhen the book first came out in 1977, it was marketed as a true story. Since then, there has been much controversy, many inconsistencies, questionable evidence, and numerous lawsuits by the many people involved. The Lutzes maintain that the events really happened, while other witnesses claim otherwise. Other than the DeFeo murders, the house has no history of violence or paranormal activity prior to the Lutzes moving in, and the families who have lived in the house after the Lutzes moved out have reported no paranormal activity. Father Ray has gone on record saying his experiences in the house were real. Kathy and George also successfully passed a polygraph test, and George stood by his accounts until the day he died, maintaining that comments to the contrary are rumour only. Since the truthfulness of the story is still being hotly debated, it cannot be decided on an IMDb faq page whether or not the story is true or a hoax.
AThe red room was a hidden room in the basement, discovered by the psychic. When George breaks down the wall and looks inside, he can see that the room is painted red. The psychic then screams, "Find the well! It's the passage to HELL! Cover it!" She explains that the red room was once used for devil worship and sacrifices and that the site where the house sits was where the Shinnecock Indians used to bury their dead and abandon their mentally ill. In the book, Kathy discovers the red room while putting canned goods against a closet wall. She found a paneling behind some shelving and pushed against it and found the red room. You can find a diagram of where the red room was in the book, and there are some photos of it in a book by Dr. Stephan Kaplan called The Amityville Horror Conspiracy.
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