As an Amityville Horror fanatic, I finally found this book and got to read it. It was better than I thought it would be, but it did not live up to the quote "This book will scare the hell out of you," as is quoted on the cover. Please. It wasn't written in a way to scare the hell out of me. Anson clearly tried his best to convert interviews with the Lutz's into a day by day story. I felt there were some inconsistencies, an over usage of exclamation points, a few holes that were either purposely left out or something. I found it weird that George had turned into a psycho the first week or so in the house, but then somewhere halfway, he's suddenly a different guy... more alert of the wife and kids and actually caring.

In correlation to the film, you can certainly tell where the film got its premise and facts. Although, there are quite a bit of details in the book that are not in the film. I don't know why. And as mentioned above about George's personality changes, that certainly is not in the movie. He's just one raging psycho that gets more psycho.

Regardless, this is definitely worth the read if you're an Amityville Horror fan.