20 Horror Movies That Were Based On Real Life Events

6. The Amityville Horror

Moving into a new home is never easy, but especially when the previous owner, Ronald DeFeo, murdered his entire family there.

I want to go home!

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The story is bad enough as fiction, but it becomes ten times worse when it is apparently based on real life experiences of a real family!

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The Lutz family moved into the house where the DeFeo family had been murdered. And whilst there they claimed to experience a range of supernatural happenings and demonic forces.

Get out!

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Members of the family reported swarms of flies, strange odours, seeing things that later weren’t there, hearing noises and voices and many other haunting experiences.

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Around a month later, the Lutz family moved out – I’m not sure anyone can blame them! I’m only surprised it didn’t take them longer!

Haunted house?

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People who have lived in the house subsequently haven’t reported any supernatural forces.

So was it real? Either way, the story of the real Lutz family has become immortalised in this film.

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