The Amityville Horror - Watch Order: Story Timeline
This watch order follows the chronological events surrounding the infamous house at 112 Ocean Avenue. The timeline begins with the DeFeo family murders that preceded the famous Lutz haunting, then moves through the investigation that followed their departure.
While these three films have some continuity contradictions, they form the most coherent narrative arc in the franchise, focusing specifically on the house itself rather than the scattered cursed objects of later sequels.
Amityville II: The Possession
Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on their children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.
The Amityville Horror
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Amityville 3-D
To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
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