Humax TV Tonight: Amityville: An Origin Story comes to BBC Two

Amityville: An Origin Story starts tonight at 9pm on BBC Two and iPlayer.

If you’re a true crime enthusiast, chances are you’re familiar with the enigmatic Amityville horror house murders—and you shouldn’t overlook this intriguing new series.

Amityville, a quaint town on Long Island, New York, gained notoriety in 1974 when Ronald DeFeo Jr. brutally killed six family members at 112 Ocean Avenue. Merely a year later, the Lutz family acquired the same house and moved in. Within a month, they hastily departed, claiming to be forced out by disturbing episodes of alleged paranormal phenomena.

The true story behind Amityville

While this captivating narrative has spawned numerous supernatural theories, books, and movies, including the 1979 hit film “The Amityville Horror,” Amityville: An Origin Story delves deeper, seeking to address lingering questions that have remained unexplored.

Jack Riccobono, the director and executive producer of Amityville: An Origin Story previously spoke to Amazon, where the show was first available to stream via MGM. Describing the series, he said: “Amityville: An Origin Story twists everything you think you know about the Amityville horror. We unravel what makes the Amityville horror tick and look at the story through all of its different layers. There’s a horror film that came out in 1979, the paranormal experiences the horror film was based on, and the terrible mass murder tragedy. The series tries to look at how the haunting of the Lutzes and the murder of the DeFeo family combined in the 1970s to give rise to the Amityville horror story, which continues to this day with more than 40 films based on these events”.

He added: “We’re really proud of the fact that we got people who had never before sat for interviews to participate. We have several people who have never spoken on camera. The most important interview is with Christopher Quaratino, aka Christopher Lutz, who is the middle son in the Lutz family. He was seven years old when the family was haunted out of the house in 1976. He sat for his first longform interview to tell us in detail what he remembers as a seven-year-old living through those 28 days in the Amityville horror house, and also the impact of the book and the film and all the attention his family received in the years after the hauntings and how that impacted their family”.

In the first episode, airing tonight, it’s 1975, when George and Kathy Lutz move into their suburban dream home, a cascade of terrifying, unexplainable events drive them out in just 28 days. Those closest to the terror share their stories.

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