Miranda Adama is a writer, variety streamer, and all-around creative who loves violence on screen and what it says about pop culture. She's the host of Be Seeing You: A John Wick Podcast and has been ...

The Amityville Horror, a horror movie based on the infamous real-life story, has become a franchise and an influence on modern horror greats (and not-so-greats). But it has left a strange legacy.

Question: When is a movie franchise not really a franchise? Answer: when it’s the “Amityville” franchise. Almost 50 years after the headline-grabbing DeFeo murders at 112 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, the ...