The Amityville series

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Originally posted by ShankS
this mans sober and he still types worse than me after a night on the beer.

but is he as snazzy a dresser as you

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The original Amityville perhaps needs to be first encountered as a child to make it memorably scary, though it still has some very effective scenes and is at least played straight with no post-modern nonsense ruining the effect of the haunted house.

The sequel (or prequel to be more precise) is underrated, though this again claims to be based on true events but really leaves only a snippet of truth in the story.

Amityville 3D was the first entirely fictional film in the series and periodically scary, The Evil Escapes was a rather dull affair about a possessed lamp (!), Amityville Curse was reasonable, Amityville '92: It's About Time allowed the evil to shift about again, this time inside a clock (!!), Amityville: A New Generation is a kind of spin-off from the second movie (posessed mirrors now), and Amityville Dollhouse is watchable as the evil is now channeled though... you guessed it!

So there are 8 movies, and there are also various documentaries such as Murder in Amityville, Amityville: The Haunting, and Amityville: Horror or Hoax?