Amityville: The Horror Returns

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Summary: Trashy and fun like a bad B-movie is fun.
Review: Have you ever watched a bad movie just for the fun of it? You know, a movie like "The Legend of Boggy Creek" or any old 70's horror movie, for that matter?

Well, reading this book is kind of like watching a movie so bad, it's good.

Oddly, the writer is actually technically rather skilled, so the book itself is an easy, unjarring read. It's the wacky, zany, zaftig plotline that causes the raspberries.

I don't know for sure what I think about Amityville -- it scared the dickens out of me as a kid, but as an adult I have to wonder if it was just a lucrative hoax. Yet, reputable researchers like Ed and Lorraine Warren claim it was real. Maybe the whole Amityville phenomenon was true to begin with, then became exaggerated as time went on.

But never mind about the truth or falsity of the phenomenon. This book is worth picking up used. It will give some chills, some laughs, and a big dose of nostalgia for the 70's and early 80's.