PART TWO
In the 1990's, in the Age of VHS videos, the "Amityville" sequel movies made more money. Some were good; some were bad; some were hideously terrible.
But, by the Decade of Grunge music's end, all talk of the so-called haunted house died down. And, by 1999, the story died out...yet again.
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The Pre-Internet Age that brought forth The Gulf Wars in The Middle East, (Thanks to President George Bush, Sr), and a sense of nihilism that pervaded America back in the 1990's, caused everyone to be deluded into thinking that everyone wanted to continue onward after the death of River Pheonix and Kurt Cobain...rocked Generation X to the core.
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While Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho", was published in 1991, heat was inflicted on Hollywood in the wake of serial killers on the page.
Ellis's 399 page tome of Patrick Bateman, a 27 year old Wall Street yuppie turned killer...invoked madness that caused scandal in the early 1990's.
The darkness of the book, (that is world's apart from his 1985 debut, "Less Than Zero"), (made into a movie in 1987), and "Rules of Attraction", (1987), (made into a movie in 2002), stunned people into a stupor of sex, drugs, and a "I don't care", attitude of this writer's generation of behavior that is not normal.
To equate Bateman to Ronald Defeo, Jr., is a schism that provides a split screen view of the people involved.
By 2000, when the movie of "American Psycho", directed by Mary Harron, (made in Canada), stormed the screens...the way forward into the 21st century...was mired by yet more controversy that also, (like decades before), further blended the truth of The Amityville Horror case.
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Amityville Book Three
Non-FictionThe final "Amityville" Non-Fiction book by Robert Helliger that deals with the Cromarty family, Daniel DeFeo, and Amityville in the 1990's and into the 21st century...and Amityville's dark past. Rated PG-13 for strong violence, sex references, drug...
