03-012 Amityville II: The Possession

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Amityville II: The Possession

Let us move on. After finding 3 missing puzzles for the opening scene of The Conjuring 2, one may wonder could other movies in the Amityville Horror saga also fit.

Since the classic The Amityville Horror premiered 4 decades ago, we have seen more than 30 movies carrying the name “Amityville” floating around in the market. Most of them are low budget direct-to-video releases and only loosely connected to the saga. But still, some movies like the 2018 The Amityville Murders, are loyal to the killing.

Movie poster of Amityville II: The Possession

The 1982 Amityville II: The Possession is another loyal example. A family moved into the very house in Amityville. Then the demon possessed the elder son, driving him to kill his entire family using a shotgun. Storyline is similar to the DeFeo killing, right? In fact, Amityville II: The Possession is technically a prequel to The Amityville Horror.

Comments on this movie are generally poor. I agree, especially when seeing the killer son Sonny having incestuous sex with his sister. Sonny was possessed and it is reasonable to see him acting demonic. But his sister was not. She agreed to the intercross just because his brother called her beautiful? That doesn’t make any sense to me at all!

Supposed to be a prequel of the 1979 classic, many said that it should be a sequel instead. They have their reasons. 

First, due to legal entity, the movie dropped the DeFeo name and invented a name called Montelli. One of the DeFeo children was completely absent from the movie. At the killing night, none of the family members were killed on their beds. Furthermore, at the end of the movie, the priest Father Adamsky was possessed by the demon and, without telling what happened next, the movie suddenly ended there. All these caused trouble to connect this movie to the 1979 classic or to the 2005 remake.

The movie did not give a date. But we saw a Sony Walkman as the media for possession. Sony only rolled out their first Walkman in year 1979. That means the movie is not possible to take place anytime earlier than The Amityville Horror. I support the sequel claim.

How to explain the similarity to the DeFeo killing if Amityville II: The Possession is a sequel to The Amityville Horror instead of a prequel?

A newspaper clipping in The Amityville Murders may give us an answer to that. In one scene of The Amityville Murders, Butch’s sister, Allison DeFeo, found a wooden box in her grandma’s bedroom. Inside the box, there is a newspaper clipping mentioned a family mass murder had happened in the Amityville house before her family moved in. The name of the previous owner is Moynahan.

Newspaper clipping found by Allison DeFeo in The Amityville Murders

To align everything together, we can assume history keeps repeating itself. It happened first to the Moynahan family, then to the DeFeo, after that to the Lutz, and now it is Montelli’s turn.

How about connection with The Conjuring 2? Wasn’t the Amityville house possessed by Valak in The Conjuring Universe?

Remember the Warrens only met Valak in Amityville but did nothing until they have reached Enfield, London in 1977. So there was a total one year gap for more possessions to happen in that very house. Also, it seems that Valak was only following the Warrens and never stayed in any fix location. This is why we again saw Valak in London.

The demon in Amityville II: The Possession is a pig!

According to the settings of the Amityville Horror saga, the house was built on ancient Indian burial ground, there should be more than 1 unrestingly spirits inside. All these reasons leave plenty of rooms for this movie to fit into the storyline, though it is not a good movie at all.

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