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  • Bile Fascination: Nowadays, the franchise is known more for its seemingly neverending sequels (nearly all of which are no budget and unofficial) than it is for its claims of being Very Loosely Based on a True Story. A lot of websites even hold Amityville marathons in which people try to get through as many of the films as they can until they can no longer take it, and give up.
  • Sequelitis: Only a handful (if that) of the sequels are well-regarded, with most of them being dismissed as mediocre at best, and downright awful at worst.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Jr. Graphic Ghost Stories is a line of child-oriented graphic novels about famous hauntings and ghosts, both real and fictional; one of the novels was about the Amityville haunting, and it was unsurprisingly pulled from various schools due to being a smidge more terrifying and realistically violent (it covers the DeFeo murders, for starters) than any of the other books, which were all about far more fantastical specters like the Headless Horseman and the Flying Dutchman.

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