first of all, how many movies that are "based on true stories" actually stick to the full story? I'm sure there are very few that actually do. Just the same with books, you read a book then watch a movie that was made based on it, half the time it's only half the same. the word "based" in that case means very loosely. the simply got the idea for the movie after read the book, or in this case hearing the story (reading the book that mentioned the story or watching the actual documentary). so naturally, there will be things that are added or taken out for dramatic effect for the movie to be a hit. there is a big difference from the documentary and the movie, as i mentioned earlier in the thread. but i won't go into details with that. i don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet.

and just because those articles claim it's all a bunch of bull, doesn't mean nothing happened there. maybe things were exaggerated. but it could still be the same concept. something happened. based on that a story was built around it. i'm sure something paranormal did happen. it may or may not have been exactly what was in the book/documentary. but something happened and they might have built onto the story from there. the one article from the post above said nothing happened before or after this family lived there. that could easily be explained. maybe it was something about the family that brought the paranormal activity out. and the ending of the activity could either be the absence of that particular person in the family or the fact the a priest came in.

no matter how similar or dissimilar the movie is from what really happened, it's still a really good movie. and the documentary is worth watching also!

I have to agree with Weevamp. There's tons of people that would say it wasn't raining even with the water falling in their face, because they choose not to believe. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened. But trying to say the documentary and the movie are the same... not gonna happen. Hollywood always hypes things up. And it did a great job of spooking me out, so I loved it. But I knew it wasn't what really happened. Just like I think the person who called the Warrens frauds is an idiot. I won't say they're 100%, because everyone has a chance to be wrong, but I believe they have felt and seen things. Heck, I've seen a video of a girl's chair moving and there was no way they could have set that up. They had to keep pressing down on the chair. The Warrens actually video-taped it.

I think the Connecticut thing could have happened, just not as... terrifying as the movie wants it to be. Scary to the people, I'm sure, as they experienced it. The documentary I saw didn't say anything about the eldest son raping people, just that the 'demon' was convincing him to do bad things to his family and he threatened them, but that was all. Just as there was no talk of the parents being raped at all. IN fact, the father never experienced anything until after his son left supposedly. Eh. There's lots of accounts, anyway. I'm sure it was construed with as many tellings as there were. Same for the Amnityville horror.