Is this really the type of thing the History Channel should be wasting its time with? Wouldn't a show about the Amityville Horror be more at home on Chiller*? Or better yet, how about the Moron Channel? For those of you who don't know, the whole "Amityville Horror" craze started when the Lutz (rhymes with "klutz") family abandoned the house they just bought because they said it was haunted by a goddamned killer pig or something. They wrote a book about it, then some more, then there were a bunch of movies, and then everyone involved sued everyone else and that was pretty much the end of it. So what really happened? Rest assured this DVD won't tell you. It does talk a little bit about these murders that happened in the house (this part is totally true, but apparently the History's Mysteries research department couldn't be bothered because they just copied all their "reenactments" of it from the movie Amityville II), but mostly it's just a bunch of rambling horseshit about Indian burial grounds, devil worshippers, and "power spots" (fucking power spots- my girl always gives me shit because I can't find hers). The Lutzeses were over it by this point, but they actually came on this show, which gave the History Channel the perfect chance to ask them a few hard-hitting questions, like:

"Did you make it all up?"
"No, seriously, did you make it all up?"
"Who do you think you're kidding? Ha ha ha! Duh."

They don't do that though. In fact, they don't say one thing to make us think the Amityville Horror was anything but 100% fact. I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned this puts a pretty big dent in their credibility. Next time I see a History Channel program about Hitler I'm not sure I'll know what to believe. Maybe he didn't kill all those Jews.

* It would be a nice change from their regular lineup: old TV shows no one watched in the first place and horror movies with all the good parts cut out. Chiller sucks cock.