I'm giving this movie five stars. For the first forty five minutes of the film I was thinking it was more like a one star movie. My respect for the film grew as I continued to watch it. At one point in the film, Lorraine Warren said about George Lutz, that one needed "a lot of padding to deal with him." Funnily enough, I thought this was a great description of Daniel Lutz of whom is the main subject in this documentary. Throughout the film, Daniel Lutz, kind've dishes the goods on his now deceased stepfather. However, he also seems to embody all of the brooding, dark, narcissistic qualities he hated about his step father. More than anything, there's this sense of a damaged man. He's super macho, shifty, evasive and seems to be having this self pity party. He's clearly putting on a very cool guy image for the film. It's hard to connect with him let alone believe him. He flips out over being asked to take something as simple as a lie detector test. He's obviously exaggerating his experiences and he lays on this thick level of intensity in everything he says to the point that you fear for anyone that dare question him. He seems to be doing okay in his life, and yet he acts as if he's completely been screwed over.By the end of the movie, one kind've walks away to see that behind all of the sensationalism of one of the biggest mass media tales of the 1980's, there was a very real family tied up in it all. Tragically, all of the hoopla from the mass media frenzy even seems to have implanted this major confusion and identity crisis on the people who were involved. Throughout the film, you realize that Danny Lutz, is both trying to reveal himself to be a real person, and at the same time, almost acting out some anti-hero protagonist character in the very movies he proclaims to hate. You can't help but sense a real lack of authenticity from him. He doesn't want to be the Amityvill kid. But when you put the camera's on him, he's very much the amityville kid on hyper overdrive. They interview and tape discussions with all of these paranormal investigators, some of whom don't even seem to believe the events at Amityville occurred.Then there's all of these weird scenes with Danny dropping all of these crazy guitar solos. Did Danny agree to do this movie to launch his music career? Admittedly they're pretty good licks, but it's for a genre of metalhead music that hit it's peak in the early nineties and has declined ever since. This only furthers the understanding that this poor guy is doomed to always be stuck in the past.

Watching this movie gave me a headache, so I am going to keep this short and uncomplicated. Danny Lutz is an obnoxious man-boy desperate to finally get HIMSELF a little attention out of the whole Amityville ordeal. He whines about his relationship to his step-dad (and implies that he was abusive, though I think it more likely he just didn't like him and wants to throw him under the bus at any opportunity), suffers the most ridiculous mood- swings, and even tries to claim a ghostly voice in the house once basically told him that he was either the cause or the center of the haunting. Attention whoring much? If his words and stories throughout the video aren't enough to convince you that he is completely full of it and probably just angry at having a blended family and a media circus around him during his childhood, his irate refusal of a lie detector test at the end definitely drives the point home. I appreciate what the creators were trying to do, but I can't imagine why they continued with filming after seeing how clearly dishonest and attention-hungry this man is. They really made a joke of themselves with this one.

Was interesting for the first 25 mins but then ran off track, needed more back story, and then the end just ruined the whole movie... After the movie I promise you will say what a waist of my time. usually I rate movies higher than the IMDb average but this definitely deserves less than 5/10. The Director should've asked if the main Character would submit to a polygraph (lie detector test) before they even started filming this documentary, and should've stopped the project there.This would be a good documentary if they focused on the back story (the murders) and should've had more witness testimonies, without which this film is dead in the water.

The documentary itself addressed some good points about the Lutz family. Is it possible they were experiencing financial trouble? Was George Lutz into sadistic occults? Danny Lutz was the main focus of the documentary, which was the mistake of the producers. The emotions seemed WAY too exaggerated and forced, which made me skeptical of his words. It wouldn't have been as bad if they would have taken bits and pieces of what he said to paint a picture of what happened, but don't let him keep talking in front of a camera. Towards the end, a producer/camera man asked if we was willing to take a lie detector test. Danny Lutz became very abrasive and defensive. It was to the point that the producer was defending himself over the question he asked, but it was mainly that Danny Lutz was avoiding an answer to the question. Simple as that.If the film's purpose was to make me even more of a skeptic, it worked.