Review of My Amityville Horror (2013) by Cameron K — 13 Aug 2013

This as by far been one of the worst documentaries I've ever seen. It's boring, it's farfetched, and worst of all, the integral central character in which the entirety of the documentary is based around is an insufferable prick.

He gets angry, sarcastic, and even threatens the director from simply being asked questions regarding his legitimacy. He curses, he argues, and all-around acts like a tough guy. The director clearly unable to control his subject chooses instead to skirt around the probing questions of whether Daniel Lutz- a child who only spent 28 days in the house and lives with those demons as if he was still there, really saw these phantoms or if we simply imagined them.

What's worse is the director never brings in any challengers with any merit, instead interviewing "parapsychologists" and "demonologists" as if they have any sort of academic merit.

But again, all those things aside, this movie might have been watchable had the director grown a pair and rebuffed his subject when he got boisterous and disrespectful (on camera-why they left that in the finished film I'll never know) and had challenged the man's story to find out where the overall story would go.

Maybe he breaks down and admits all his life's problems were because of his own anger issues and unstable upbringing, maybe when confronted with cold hard facts he realizes some things didn't happen as they seemed (he was a child at the time), or maybe the director takes him back into the house to confront what terrified him so much as a child to reveal the safety and lack of paranormal activity in the current house today.

All roads lead to a better story and a better film, one that might lead to a better expenditure of your time.