The Amityville house at 108 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, N.Y., is one of the most famous haunted houses in history, but both its backstory and its current paranormal status have been hotly contested. The ...

The Amityville Horror, a horror movie based on the infamous real-life story, has become a franchise and an influence on modern horror greats (and not-so-greats). But it has left a strange legacy.

The full story of the Amityville Horror House is featured in season three of House Beautiful’s haunted house podcast, Dark House. Listen to the episode here. The three-story home was originally built ...

Question: When is a movie franchise not really a franchise? Answer: when it’s the “Amityville” franchise. Almost 50 years after the headline-grabbing DeFeo murders at 112 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, the ...