{"id":131788,"date":"2025-09-10T03:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131788\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:16:06","slug":"david-f-sandberg-will-direct-the-756th-amityville-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131788\/","title":{"rendered":"David F. Sandberg Will Direct the 756th ‘Amityville Horror’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

First came the very real massacre of the DeFeo family<\/a> by one of their own, in 1974. Then, in 1977, came the best-selling book chronicling the ghostly terrors experienced by the Lutzes, the next family to occupy the DeFeo\u2019s Long Island Dutch Colonial Revival<\/a> with those distinctive eye-shaped windows. Then came the 1979 movie based on the book<\/a>\u2014by which time the haunting claims were being called into question. But who cares if The Amityville Horror is a hoax<\/a> if it continues to fascinate audiences?<\/p>\n

Hollywood, for one, has had zero issues with repeatedly rattling around the Red Room and looking for demonic pigs in the night. In the 46 years since that first film starring Margot Kidder and James Brolin, there have been dozens of sequels<\/a>. The original series includes eight films, including a 3D entry, running through 1996\u2019s The Amityville Dollhouse. (You can tell by that title alone that the stories did a fair amount of branching away from the original tale.)<\/p>\n

Then, in 2005, we got the Ryan Reynolds-starring remake of the 1979 film, which sparked a fresh wave of sequels. Since 2011, there have also been dozens of independent releases using the Amityville name, many of which enter more fantastical and\/or parody-based realms, including Amityville in Space and Amityville Christmas Vacation. In 2016, The Conjuring 2 also set a memorable scene in the Amityville house\u2014as did last year\u2019s fourth season of Chucky.<\/p>\n

There are also several documentaries chronicling the house\u2019s history, including the genuinely unsettling My Amityville Horror, focusing on one of the now-grown Lutz kids, who\u2019s battled psychological demons his whole life as a result of his association with the story.<\/p>\n

All of that is to say that we\u2019re not surprised to hear that David F. Sandberg (Until Dawn, Annabelle: Creation, Lights Out, Shazam) will direct yet another take on The Amityville Horror. This is different than, as Deadline also reported, the Amityville project announced a few months back from the producers of Weapons and Heart Eyes. That one hails from Deadstream<\/a> co-writers and co-directors Joseph and Vanessa Winter; it\u2019s said to be \u201cset apart from the film canon, with roots in the public domain folk tale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports Sandberg\u2019s film will be \u201ca reimagining of the original horror classic\u201d but provides no further story details. Considering so much imagination has already been applied to the Amityville case\u2014Amityville Death Toilet is a thing that exists\u2014you have to wonder what avenues are left to explore.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First came the very real massacre of the DeFeo family by one of their own, in 1974. Then,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,91386,134,344,91387],"class_list":["post-131788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-david-s-sandberg","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-amityville-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}