10 films inspired by real-life ghost stories😮😲 “Real-life” doesn’t necessarily mean “true,” especially when the context is ghost stories but spooky legends have a way of influencing pop culture 1) The Amityville Horror Though the 1977 book that launched the Lutz family and their Dutch Colonial home into supernatural stardom was billed as “a true story,” it was later established that the slime-oozing walls, ghost pigs, and basement portals to hell were kinda, sorta, totally made-up. Still, the place did have an authentically awful past; before the Lutz family moved in, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo methodically gunned down his parents and four siblings. So whether or not demons dwell there, or just the remnants of a terrible family tragedy, is left to the imagination. And The Amityville Horror certainly captured a lot of imaginations, enough for nearly two dozen movies. It also made sure that anyone else who moved into the house on Ocean Avenue would indeed be curs
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