When George and Kathy Lutz bought 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, they couldn’t believe their luck. It was 1975 and ...

It was a story that horrified Long Islanders and later inspired horror films. On Nov. 13, 1974 -- exactly 50 years ago -- Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his entire family inside their Amityville home.

The Amityville franchise is one of horror's strangest, which is really saying something when you look at the whole landscape of the genre. A single, supposedly true story of a haunted house in New ...

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.