"Houses don't have memories" Yeah, except those houses where families are brutally murdered in, those ones apparently have memories! Is it weird that after viewing this haunted house fright flick, I wanted to become James Brolin? I mean seriously, if aliens ever came to this planet, and needed a perfect human male specimen to examine, would they need to look much further than him in the late 70's? I feel compelled to wear more flannel, and tirelessly chop wood around the clock.

Having recently read Jay Anson 's allegedly true account of the ordeal the Lutz family faced in the now infamous Long Island home, I thought it was time to revisit the first of 10 -- count 'em 10 -- films based on the subject matter. How does it hold up? Stick with me! Newlyweds move into a house where a murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.  The funny thing about the 1979 version of The Amityville Horror , and even the 2005 remake, is how much it deviates from the story. Anson's book, bullshit or not , has some pretty incredible stuff in it. And there's no doubt all of it would have made for frightening cinema. But good 'ole Hollywood has to put its on stamp on things. Most surprising is how Stuart Rosenberg 's film plays up George Lutz 's descent into insanity, to the point where he's willing to go Jack Nicholson on his family with an axe. This too was played up in the Andrew Douglas's 2005 re...

How about that? I didn't even know it was up for sale. Newsday reported on the weekend that the five bedroom house with one of the most notorious house in North American history was on the market for a  $1.15 million. The Dutch Colonial at 108 Ocean Avenue is where Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and his four siblings in 1974. The shootings became the inspiration for Jay Anson's book The Amityville Horror: A True Story and, of course, the 1979 film "The Amityville Horror, its 2005 remake, and many crappy films/sequels inbetween. The home was only on the market for 70 days.