BoulderLight Pictures (Barbarian) and Divide/Conquer (Heart Eyes) are teaming up for a radical new take on Amityville, and they’ve enlisted Deadstream duo Joseph and Vanessa Winter.
Joseph and Vanessa Winter will helm the feature from their own script.
The original 1979 Amityville Horror film followed a newlywed couple and their children as they battled a demonic presence in their new home. It was based on the 1977 novel by Jay Anson and inspired no shortage of sequels and offshoots.
This new Amityville won’t be based on that IP. Per Deadline, “Its roots are instead in the famed real-life paranormal story behind those stories, with the film offering a fresh look at the notorious Amityville house itself on 112 Ocean Avenue itself, and a legend situated in the public domain.”
Interestingly, Anson’s novel drew historical basis from the grisly 1974 murders in which Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his parents and four siblings in their home at 112 Ocean in Amityville, New York. The Amityville Horror tells of the Lutz family after they move into the house a year later.
Don’t expect the DeFeo murders or the Lutz story play a role in this new take on Amityville, though.
What we can expect is a completely different take on the famous haunted house story from a pair of filmmakers with an eye for fun horror. The Winters are fresh off of their debut feature, Deadstream, that premiered in 2022, with Joseph also starring, and was released by Shudder. They are also known for their segment “To Hell and Back” for V/H/S/99, also on Shudder.
If that’s not enough reason to get excited, then the producers’ show of confidence might: producers are looking to fast-track the film, and targeting late 2025 for production.
Raphael Margules & J.D. Lifshitz will produce for BoulderLight, alongside Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath for Divide/Conquer.
Stay tuned.
Joseph Winter in ‘Deadstream’
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