The Amityville Curse - From Tubi

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Originally Posted by UFAlien

The original movie was, in fact, radically different to the novel. That was for the better because the novel is one of the absolute worst things I've ever tried to read. I'm a diehard, I slogged through all the "official" books and The Nightmare Continues, and I couldn't even get halfway through Holzer's The Amityville Curse. So my hopes are not high (pun intended).

The Jay Anson book only remotely works if you are willing (or gullible enough) to humor the hoaxers and accept the "It's True" B.S. on their terms. When I was a wee lad and didn't know any better I thought it was scary but now, yeah, it's pretty terrible. Read outside of its time and place (late 70s "Da Debil's Comin' Ta Getcha!!!!!!! supernatural hysteria zeitgeist) it's simply garbage. Worse, it's badly-written garbage. The John G. Jones sequel novels (which can barely even maintain a straight face while continuing to claim "no, really, seriously, this sh*t is fo realz!!!!") are even worse.

Also: Hans Holzer, much like the Warren hucksters shamefully lionized in the Conjuring movies, was a straight-up conman and bullsh*t peddler.