Just yesterday we first told you that CineTel Films is heading to Cannes with a new take on the Amityville tragedy entitled The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders.
On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. took a high-powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that “voices” in the house commanded him to kill. Thirteen months later, the Lutz family bought the house and stayed only 28 days before fleeing in terror.
Their nightmarish ordeal shocked the world in The Amityville Horror. The Lutzes may have escaped from Amityville with their lives … but the DeFeo’s weren’t so lucky.
The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders is going to tell the DeFeo’s story. And now we know that Daniel Farrands is directing, according to THR. Farrands not only penned Havenhurst but he’s the producer on Dimension’s long-delayed Amityville: The Awakening, as well as The Haunting in Connecticut.
Farrands directs from his own screenplay, with production set to start this summer.