IFC gives release dates to My Amityville Horror and the Jeffrey Dahmer Files

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

IFC has two heavy duty documentaries on their plate, and they’re ready to share them with us in 2013. Thanks to Fangoria, we know when the world will be able to behold MY AMITYVILLE HORROR and THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES… That is, if we’re prepared for them.

DAHMER will be unleashed on VOD and in select theaters FEBRUARY 15th. Meanwhile, AMITYVILLE hits VOD and select theaters MARCH 1st, and premieres on the subscription VOD service SundanceNOW two weeks prior.

The synopsis for MY AMITYVILLE HORROR: On November 13, 1974, the house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York became a place that locals feared when 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo murdered his entire family under very mysterious circumstances. In September 1977, it became a place the entire world feared when Jay Anson’s book “The Amityville Horror” was published (later adapted into the popular series of films), bringing the house international notoriety and instant entry into the occult history books. Not so much because of the DeFeo murders, but because it told the tale of what happened to the next family who lived there, one year after the massacre. The Lutz family.

In 1975, they were dwellers for all of 28 days before fleeing in mortal terror, the victims of widespread supernatural happenings that pushed them to the brink of madness and had them fearing for their lives. A media circus began that never fully ended. Straight up to their recent deaths, George and Kathy Lutz have never gone back on a single claim. Daniel Lutz was ten years old at the time that his family literally went to hell. Never before in the 35 years since living through the ordeals has he gone on record about his experiences. This is his story, in his words.

The synopsis for THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES: In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES is a documentary that explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Recollections from Milwaukee Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen, Police Detective Patrick Kennedy, and neighbor Pamela Bass are interwoven with archival footage and everyday scenes from Dahmer’s life, working collectively to disassemble the facade of an ordinary man leading an ordinary existence.