Now, I’m a huge fan of paranormal anything, but something just didn’t sit right with me in this. For me, this film’s high note was around the moment they accused Daniel of lying. That’s when he became less boisterous and kind of bottled up, but then they moved on as it is was all factual. What? Why?
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I don't really know what to think because there are a number of possibilities.I think it's possible that things did happen to him of a paranormal nature but it's also possible there have been false memories that were planted too that he accepted as fact so he can no longer distinguish fact from fiction.I think his rough treatment by George affected him too in some way.
shareOh hell yes, I definitely think the money train has run out and he is grasping at any and all straws to chase that next high. All those pictures he had sprawled out on the table are nothing new. I have a facebook page with all of those same pic posted.
He is just a middle aged man that needs to come to grips with his biological parents divorce. He also seems jealous of the year he was placed in a catholic school. During this time his mother and George were at the height of this elaborate money making story and it seems as though Kathy had no time to be a mother and he is still holding her accountable with George being the ring leader stealing all his mothers attention. Now that they have passed he perhaps feels a bit of guilt?
I took his words with a grain of salt and felt as if I was "protecting George" while he spewed hatred.
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He clearly has emotional issues. I think the end of the film clearly illustrates the dilemma. When talking to the therapist, he touches on just wanting to be believed. Wanting anyone to believe his story, and he mentions several times he never got to say his part as a child. What this indicates to me is that George Lutz was possibly a very abusive person, and Danny is trying to tell people George is not the nice guy people think. So Danny himself is now twisted into the paranormal stuff when what he really wants/needs is closure on the neglect and abuse from both his parents and possibly the boarding school he was left at while his parents went on tour. And since all anyone asks him about is the paranormal story, he's now resentful and angry and doesn't know how to separate the stories himself. So when Danny is speaking of supernatural stuff, deep down he's trying to say George.
shareNice copy and paste response. Don't you have anything new to say?
shareWhat is with people saying that very thing you just did - that Danny feeling he didn't get enough interviews as a kid means George Lutz was abusive? So sick of this wicked step-parent nonsense. I have met plenty of kids who had perfectly decent step-parents and just couldn't get over not having their REAL parent around, so they blamed everything that ever went wrong in their lives on the step-parent and dragged that person's name unfairly through the mud at every opportunity. Danny Lutz is clearly STILL an obnoxious brat, so I don't find it hard to believe he was just that obnoxious back then. Blended families are a reality, and plenty of them provide a better life for a kid than the genetic parent would have- but kids can be selfish little jerks, can't they? And they can grow up into attention-hungry pricks, too, if no one sets them straight in time.
It is hard to believe his stories of abuse when he was so clearly lying about everything else.
To everyone saying Danny not getting interviewed at the age of 10 means George Lutz was a wicked stepfather, please seek counseling. I promise, your real daddy loved you very much and he probably just knew he couldn't take proper care of you.
I believe his story. From the way he made it sound, he lived in a very unhappy household mostly due to George's abusive nature. Because of this, it would've been filled with negative energy which is something malevolent entities are known to feed off of. I didn't get the impression that he was lying at all. He told the story with emotion and detail that I don't think anyone who was acting would possess. Also, if the whole thing were just a scheme to make George money, I don't think Danny would've corroborated his story whatsoever and would've done anything possible to contradict his story because they obviously didn't like each other.
I've been waiting for you, Ben.
Full of crap.
I think he honestly believes his story but I also think he doubts himself (why he got so defensive when asked to take a lie detector test.) I don't think the children were involved in the lie that the Lutz's orchestrated and probably really believed at the time that the house was being haunted. That, compiled with false memories caused by all the hoopla, the media, book and film - this dude is seriously messed up.
shareI don't think he can differentiate between what's real and what's fiction. That was my takeaway.
The Amityville haunting didn't happen, OK? George Lutz didn't summon a demon. There were no spirits. No exorcism was necessary.
I expected this movie to be yet another cash-in on a genuinely creepy work of fiction/performance art. And I think that's what the documentary was intended to be. Instead, I found it to be a very sad portrait of a shattered adult psyche... a victim of paranormal profiteering. Everyone who came out of the woodwork to appear in this film is a douchebag: from the reporters to Lorraine Warren.
Houdini despised psychics, fortune tellers, and ghost hunters because he believed they were destructive, and that's why he invested so much effort into exposing them as frauds. This film unintentionally presents the ugliest aspects of "paranormal research," and proves out Houdini's contempt for this sort of thing.
He's a lair.
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