Housing experts call them “stigmatized properties.

The differences are minor, but nagging. Hoffman has “trickles of red” running from the keyholes. The book has “greenish black slime” that flows up the stairs and oozes out of the walls.


There are several versions of exactly what did happen, mainly a Good Housekeeping article


“The Amityville Horror” was the second-highest-grossing movie of 1979, behind “Kramer vs. Kramer,


“The house has been trouble in and out for a while,” she said.