Long Island’s Own Horror Films

Long Island’s Own Horror Films

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1974 file photo, police and members of the Suffolk County Coroner's Office investigate the murder of six people found shot in Amityville, N.Y. Ronald DeFeo, Jr., the man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the book and movie "The Amityville Horror" died Friday, March 12, 2021 at Albany Medical Center, where he was taken Feb. 2 from a prison in New York’s Catskill Mountains, prison officials said Monday, March 15. He was 69. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

It’s Halloween week so lots of spooky is trending this week including a list of movies based on allegedly true stories….

Number 1 on the list is actually one based right here on Long Island the 1979 film “The Amityville Horror.” There’s another Long Island based movie too on the list #7 “Poltergeist.”

1.  “The Amityville Horror”  (1979). 

2.  “A Nightmare on Elm Street”  (1984)

3.  “The Conjuring”  (2013)

4.  “Annabelle”  (2014) She is actually a raggedy Ann doll not like the doll in the movie but either way terrifying!

5.  “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”  (2005)

6.  “The Exorcist”  (1973)

7.  “Poltergeist”  (1982)

8.  “The Rite”  (2011)

9.  “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”  (1974). 

10.  “The Strangers”  (2008)

11.  “Winchester”  (2018)

12.  “The Birds”  (1963)

13.  “Scream”  (1996)

(Image: AP Newsroom)