I watched the original documentary and it scared the crap out of me. i got excited when i saw that they were making a movie so when it came out i went and watched it and was very disapointed. They changed the story in the movie. i recommend the documentary to everyone.
shareJudging by the mom's web site, www.carmenreed.com, I suspect that the whole story was concocted as a money-making scheme, like the Amityville Horror. I also suspect the Discovery Channel didn't "discover" anything like that.
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@OP . I like discovery channel's documentry much better too. And the guy in the basement scared the hell out of me.
@paul-tait. No it was only for this movie. There were no hundred corps on the wall in the real story.
Doubtful. Many of the details were made up by Ray Garton, author of In a Dark Place:The Story of a True Haunting. Garton approached Ed Warren about the discrepancies of the tale and Warren, reportedly, told him "Who Cares? Just make make stuff up, and make it scary."
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I don't believe a word of that. My grandparents were good friends of the Warrens. Ed was a well, respected, religious man. I met Ed and Lorraine as a child just once but I remember them well. My dad said at times would mention Amityville to my grandparents and if it was a hoax. My grandma firmly defended them. She said they would never do such a thing and refused to speak of their work. I actually didn't know what they did till I was much older. I just knew them as grandmas friends.
Ed and Lorraine believed in their work and devoted much of their lives to helping others.
Maybe In A Dark Place has fillers to fill in details like the movie. I don't know but I would not say Ed and Lorraine made this up.
Whether it's true or not, I think the documentary was more believable than the movie. The movie seemed way more poofed up. And like I said, whether ghosts exist or not, I think if they did, the doc's version seemed more believable. Maybe because it felt more simple and less "Let's make it totally convoluted with all these stupid ghost movie cliches, like mediums, ectoplasm, disturbed cemeteries and corpses buried in the walls". The doc kept it straight and simple and didn't BS. It was also, LOL, creepier. A low budget, made for tv movie/documentary managed to be more creepy than a frilled up, larger budget Hollywood movie.
shareYes, the documentary was a lot more intriguing and fascinating to me. I was surprised at how much the movie version changed from the documentary, actually. The documentary was interesting and scary enough, so I don't see why they felt the need for so many changes. Don't get me wrong, the movie was entertaining enough to keep me interested for the two hours it was on, but it didn't have as powerful of an effect on me as the documentary (which was extremely creepy) did.
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Didn't Geraldo Rivera or someone interview the 'real' family? I swear I saw a snippet of the interview around the time this movie came out.
Whatever I saw, I thought it sounded a little fake.
However I thought the Discovery Channel version was creeeeeeeepy!
Sally Jessy Raphael had the Mother and Father on her show in 1991. The eldest son(Phil Schedecker) was supposedly away at college. He would die in Jan. 2012 as his cancer returned. Oddly the Mother seemed too composed in the re-enactment that same year on Paranormal Witness. To me that seemed sadder than the "paranormal activity" they allegedly experinced
shareSally Jessy Raphael had the Mother and Father on her show in 1991. The eldest son(Phil Schedecker) was supposedly away at college. He would die in Jan. 2012 as his cancer returned. Oddly the Mother seemed too composed in the re-enactment that same year on Paranormal Witness. To me that seemed sadder than the "paranormal activity" they allegedly experinced
shareWhat is the name of the documentary? I'd like too see it!
shareI know this is a bit late but the documentary is also entitled a Haunting in Connecticut and I agree it is much scarier. It scared the hell out of me especially those guys in the basement with the weird eyes. I felt so sorry for the children that had to sleep down there and the parents didn't believe them. Check it out on the imdb site for upcoming showings. It often plays with A Haunting in Georgia which is also scary but nothing compared to the Connecticut tale.
shareThe entire story was made up by the parents a scheme to make money.
I can't believe anybody still believes it really happened.
WHATS THE NAME OF THE DAMN DOCO????
google is your friend guy.
the doc is called "A Haunting in Connecticut"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439602/
And your proof is???? There is difference between opinion and hard evidence.
Only the family who lived there knows what happened.
Yes, the documentary version from the Discovery Channel was creepy. It had quite a chilling vibe. The kid, named Paul, and his little brother, i forgot his name, were scared being down in that basement and being haunted by the demons. The funny part was when the father unscrewed the lightbulbs in the room and just left that one light on the nightstand for them to get some sort of comfort from. That didn't stop the demons from appearing, especially the ones with the weird, pupilless eyes. The rosary hanging around Paul's cousin's neck was eerie as it moved. I haven't saw this movie, but i probably won't watch it as people say that it's not as good as the documentary.
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u piece of shyts whats the name of the documentary already stop saying i need to c SHARE THE *beep* NAME