While we await official news on Dimension Films’ Amityville: The Awakening, Daniel Farrands prequel story The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders quietly begun filming for CineTel Films.
Facebook posts have revealed some of the cast, which includes John Robinson, Paul Ben-Victor, Lainie Kazan, Chelsea Ricketts, and Diane Franklin.
Franklin, of course, starred in the original sequel, Amityville Horror II: The Possession!
In the new film:
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. 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.