Amityville Murders, The

The Amityville Murders

Credits
Title:	The Amityville Murders
Director:	Daniel Farrands
Writers:	Daniel Farrands
Producers:	Jim Jacobsen; Lucas Jarach; Daniel Farrands; Eric Brenner
Composer:	Dana Kaproff
Cinematography:	Carlo Rinaldi
Editors:	Dan Riddle
Production
Distributed by:	ETA Films Cinetel Films Green Light Pictures Skyline Entertainment
Released:	October 9th, 2018
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	97 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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The Amityville Murders is an American independent feature film of the horror and true crime genres. It was written and directed by Daniel Farrands. It was produced by Skyline Entertainment, Cinetel Films, Green Light Pictures and ETA Films. It was first screened at the Screamfest Film Festival in the United States on October 9th, 2018. It was released to the home video market on February 8th, 2019.

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Cast[]

Actor	Role
John Robinson	Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, Jr.
Chelsea Ricketts	Dawn DeFeo
Paul Ben-Victor	Ronald DeFeo, Sr.
Diane Franklin	Louise DeFeo
Lainie Kazan	Angela "Nonna" Brigante
Burt Young	Michael Brigante
Zane Austin	Marc DeFeo
Noa Brenner	Allison DeFeo
Kue Lawrence	John "Jody" DeFeo
Rebekah Graf	Donna Benedettio
Sky Patterson	Steve Pelskie
Steve Trzaska	Randy "Beak" Buechler
Eddie Alfano	Officer Aiello
Andrew Colin Allen	Officer 2/Shadow demon
Jon Mack	Real estate agent
Scottie Gee Gerardi	George Lutz
Rachel McLaughlan	Kathy Lutz
Steven Barton	Thug
Lani Duncan	Shadow demon
Giselle Fernandez	Shadow demon

Notes & Trivia[]

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The tagline to this film is "On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his entire family in this house... He said he heard voices. The voices told him to KILL."
There are a total of thirty-five credited cast members in this film.
As this film was not released theatrically, it has not been rated by the MPAA. On streaming platforms it carries a rating of MA 15+.
On the Internet Movie Database, The Amityville Murders has a Starmeter rating of 4.7 out of 10 based on more than 2,300 user votes. It has an unweighted mean of 4.9 out of 10. The highest ranking amongst users is 5 out of 10, which makes up 22.7% of the total voting pool and consists of 527 votes. 148 users gave the film a score of 10, making up 6.4% of the total voting pool, while 207 users gave the film a score of 1, making up 8.9% of the total voting pool.
On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The Amityville Murders has a 0% score on the Tomatometer based on fifteen critic reviews, all of whom gave the movie a negative review. It has a user score of 42% based on more than 100 verified user ratings, averaging 2.9 out of 5.
On Letterboxd, The Amityville Murders has a weighted average of 2.09 out of 5 based on 1,635 user votes.
Actor Sky Liam, who plays Steve Pelskie, is credited as Sky Patterson in this film.
The 1982 film Amityville II: The Possession provided a fictionalized account of the events that took place in 1974 involving the DeFeo family. However, the DeFeo name was not allowed to be used, so the filmmakers changed the family name to Montelli. Actor Burt Young played Anthony Montelli in the film (an analog of Ronald DeFeo, Sr.) and Diane Franklin played Patricia Montelli (an analog of Dawn DeFeo). In The Amityville Murders, Burt Young plays Butch DeFeo's maternal grandfather Michael Brigante while Diane Franklin plays Butch DeFeo's mother, Louise DeFeo.
The "T" in Amityville on the movie poster is rendered upside down to make it resemble an inverted cross.
When Ronald DeFeo, Jr. is getting dressed at night, a war movie is playing on the small television in his room. The Wilhelm scream can be heard at the 70 minute mark when a tank explodes in the film.
In one scene in the film, John and Marc are fighting over a Stretch Armstrong toy. Stretch Armstrong was not released until 1976, two years after the events of this film.
This movie premiered a the Screamfest Film Festival on the same day that Amityville Prison was released on DVD.

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