MY AMITYVILLE HORROR (2012)

USA. Direction: Eric Walter. Production: Andrea Adams, John Blythe, Eric Walter / Lost Witness Pictures, Film Regions International. Photography: Charlie Anderson. Music: Herman Witkam. Edition: Eric Walter. Running time: 88 min

We know the address: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York. We know the year: 1975. We know the name of the family that lived in the demonic house: Lutz. We know the name of the ghost-busters: Ed and Lorraine Warren. We’ve watched all ten film episodes that thought we’d seen the whole story. In other words, we thought we knew everything about doors that open and close, strange noises and inhabited nights. But we were missing an essential stone; lydian and scandalous: this incredible document presented at FantAsia, directed by Eric Walter, a moviemaker specialised in unexplored territories. Walter converts Daniel Lutz, who was about ten when all this happened, into one of the biggest, most frightened and terrifying creatures of the Horror world. Delicate of mind, perhaps even more so than abused and maltreated, tormented by hatred, fear, trauma, enclosed with his god in some corner of his mind, no-one at this Festival 2012 will make us shake longer or better.