Amityville Movies in Order & How Many Are There
If you love horror movies, you have certainly heard of Amityville movies. That said, with so many of them, it is not always easy to know what is the best way to watch Amityville movies in order.
That is why we have decided to make this article and let you know how many Amityville movies are there and what is the best way to watch them.
How many Amityville movies are there?
There are currently 22 official full-length movies in the Amityville franchise. There are also a few documentaries, some unofficial titles, some horror comedies that are not worth mentioning, and some movies that have Amityville in the title but are not connected to the franchise.
Let’s see what is the best way to watch Amityville movies in order.
Amityville movies in order
As Amityville movies are not directly connected, you can watch them in any order you like. Still, if you want to watch them all, we would suggest you start watching them in order by the release date.
Keep reading to see them all on our list and to find out what is every of these Amityville movies about.
1. Amityville Horror (1979)
George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.
2. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Eager to start afresh, the unsuspecting couple of Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville. However, right from the very first night, strange paranormal experiences shatter the Montellis’ fantasy, as the restless spirits of the dead and the new home’s dark secrets open the unfathomable black portal of hell. Now, the family’s older child, Sonny, has become the perfect vessel of destruction, as the invisible demonic forces claim his soul. Can Father Frank Adamsky cleanse the infernal Amityville House?
3. Amityville 3-D (1983)
To debunk the Amityville house’s infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people who have come into contact with John and the house begin to meet with shocking fates. Is it all just coincidence, or is the house really the gateway to hell?
4. Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)
The demonic force lurking in Amityville for over 300 years escapes to a remote California mansion. It encounters a struggling family living together by uncertain means. The beast manipulates a little girl by manifesting itself in the form of her dead father. Soon it will be able to possess her completely… is it too late for a young priest to defeat the demon and end the curse?
5. The Amityville Curse (1990)
Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, the Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
6. Amityville: It’s About Time (1992)
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house.
7. Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
Photographer Keyes is given an old mirror from a homeless person he photographs on the street, takes it home and gives it to a friend. He doesn’t know yet that people see horrible things happen to themselves in the mirror and later these things come true. Are these really suicides or is there a demonic force behind the mirror?
8. Amityville Dollhouse (1996)
A dollhouse that is a replica of the infamous Amityville haunted house is given to a little girl. Soon after, all sorts of horrible unexplained accidents start to happen. The family must work together to fight off the terrifying evil that has inhabited their lives.
9. Amityville Horror (2005)
This hair-raising remake of the 1979 horror hit depicts the ordeal of the Lutz clan, whose new home has a gory past and a legacy of demons. Before long, the family patriarch is plagued by nightmares and his daughter is seeing phantoms.
10. Amityville: The Final Testament (2010)
An interview with Ronald DeFeo Jr., who was convicted of the infamous Amityville murders in 1974 in which he murdered six members of his family and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Also: comments by psychic Jackie Barrett.
11. The Amityville Haunting (2011)
This movie is a ‘found-footage’ film about the Benson family who moves in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family was murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.
12. Shattered Hopes: The True Story of the Amityville Murders – Part I: From Horror to Homicide (2011)
A docudrama exploring the infamous 1974 mass murder of the DeFeo family by their eldest son and sibling. The case went on to spawn the “Amityville Horror” franchise of films.
13. My Amityville Horror (2012)
For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975.
14. The Amityville Asylum (2013)
Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realizes that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ramblings of the patients, she is further unnerved by apparent supernatural occurrences on the night shift. To preserve her sanity Lisa must uncover the mysterious history of the institution and its inmates. But the truth is far more terrifying than she could ever imagine.
15. Amityville Death House (2015)
A young woman and her friends are threatened by an ancient witch’s curse when they stop in the town of Amityville to check in on her sickly grandmother.
16. The Amityville Playhouse (2015)
Following the tragic death of her parents, Fawn Harriman discovers she has inherited a theatre in the town of Amityville. She, along with 3 friends, decides to spend the weekend there looking the place over. Meanwhile, one of her High School teachers begins an investigation into the village’s past and makes a connection with something that goes back beyond recorded history.
17. The Amityville Legacy (2016)
A cursed antique toy monkey from the original DeFeo home wrecks havoc and possesses a father after being gifted during an annual family reunion.
18. The Amityville Terror (2016)
When a new family moves to an old house in Amityville, they are tormented and tortured by an evil spirit living in the home while trapped by the malicious townspeople who want to keep them there.
19. Amityville: No Escape (2016)
A group of college students goes into the deep woods of the most haunted town in America to better understand fear… and they found it.
20. The Amityville Exorcism (2017)
A single mother of three children, desperate but determent to help cure her son moves into a haunted Amityville house to use its dark powers for doing good. Will she succeed or will things go wrong?
21. Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother’s expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
22. The Amityville Murders (2018)
On the night of November 13th, 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. This is their story.
23. Amityville: Mt. Misery Road (2018)
Charlie and Buzi are ghost enthusiasts fascinated by the legend of the scariest road in America, Mt. Misery Road. The couple venture into the woods, only to get caught in a whirlpool of paranormal activities.
24. Amityville Island (2020)
A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals.
25. Amityville in the Hood (2021)
An Eastside gang uses the Amityville property to grow marijuana when they are attacked by a rival gang and their drugs stolen. Soon, it’s unleashed on the Westside streets of Compton, where anyone who smokes it suffers one KILLER buzz.
Do you need to watch Amityville movies in order?
You don’t need to watch Amityville movies in order. They are mostly not connected, except that they sometimes take place at the same locations. So you can watch them in whatever order you want, and you can skip over some if you don’t find them interesting.
Will there be more Amityville movies in the future?
Almost certainly. Amityville’s hunted location has always attracted filmmakers as well as viewers, and with all these movies so far, we are pretty certain the Amityville movie franchise is not finished with its storytelling. Currently, there are three more Amityville movies announced, Amityville High, Return to Amityville and Amityville: The Beginning. We expect to see even more of them.
