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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorThe results are a disturbing mixture of paranormal ghost story and psychological unease.
- 70Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerWhether it was all a haunting or a hoax is left unanswered, but the film leaves little doubt that Amityville's greatest source of evil was, fundamentally, parental in nature.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film is a tender character portrait rooted in deep curiosity and sympathy for its subject.
- 60Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenThe blurring of fact and fiction has been a part of the Amityville saga since it became public, but for Lutz there's no gray area in his memories, whose power is undiminished.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasWalter has the case down cold and arrives at suitably ambiguous conclusions about terrors both real and suggested, but he gets there through a mix of dimly lit interviews and ominous underscoring that wouldn’t be out of place on an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries."
- 50VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonThis documentary plays like an extended episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” deficient as it is in stylistic zeal, investigative spirit and plain old scares.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierLutz, who was a boy when his family fled the Long Island home, is full of belligerence in this chronicle of his family’s alleged run-in with a ghoulish home where a murder had occurred.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThese days, when paranormal-themed shows are all over television, Mr. Lutz sounds like just another guy peddling an unverifiable spooky story.