The Latest 'Amityville' Project Tells 'The Legacy' in 3-D

All of these competing Amityville Horror
projects have me extremely confused. From what I understand, there are
rights to the book and rights to the actual story as told by George
Lutz. Therefore, it's hard for me to understand who actually controls
these rights, especially since there's already The Amityville Tapes stuck at MGM and the documentary My Amityville Horror in production.

Adding to that list is Hannibal Classics' Amityville: The Legacy 3D,
which is a feature film based on the book "Amityville: The Evil
Escapes" (also the title of the 1989 made-for-TV movie) by John G.
Jones. My guess is Hannibal owns the rights to this book specifically?

Adapted by Andrew Helm and Steve B. Harris, the film is said to be going into production this coming September, even though a director has yet to be attached.

Inside you'll find a lengthy synopsis aside the Cannes sales art. Thanks to BD reader 'Mark L.' for the tip.

"Six
priests enter an abandoned home in the middle of an intense
thunderstorm. The leader of the group, FATHER MANFRED, quiets the
doubting FATHER KIBBLER, the youngest priest. The priests separate and
Kibbler follows the sound of laughter into the attic. Inside, flies
swarm by the the iconic windows of the Amityville house. The door slams
shut and an unseen demon claws at Kibbler. Manfred kicks open the door
and battles the demon until it consumes him in fire. The attic erupts
but the demon is vanquished -- contained in a weak, but still-alive
Manfred.

Thirty years later, we meet NANCY and MICHAEL EVANS and their daughter
AMANDA, a happy family recently touched by tragedy. Nancy's sister
CAROLYN committed suicide, leaving Nancy and Michael to care for her
kids, BRIAN and JESSICA. The Evans family is in the process of moving
from the city to live in Carolyn's suburban home, where Nancy hopes to
bond with Brian and Jessica. Michael plans to fix up the house, sell it,
and move the family back to the city.

Before they settle into the home, the friction between Michael and
Jessica threatens to splinter the family. Very soon after their arrival,
Nancy begins to sense a palpable, evil presence. She can't seem to
sleep through the night due to mysterious and horrifying noises. Their
family cat is found in the attic -- dead. Slaughtered. Worse, as a
family unit, they have a hard time meshing with Brian and Jessica.
Michael becomes consumed with renovating the house, and hires a couple
of hard-partying locals, ANT and SEAN, to help him. But they are afraid
to go in the attic. They know what happened in there.

As Michael's passion turns to obsession, Nancy struggles with her very
sanity. She's coming apart at the seams, unhinged by the evil presence
that only she seems to feel. She knows it will stop at nothing to get
them out of the house. When she finds some letters Carolyn wrote to
Father Manfred and Father Kibbler she makes a startling discovery --
Carolyn went through the same thing. Unable to track down Manfred, she
locates Kibbler -- but he offers her no help. He is no longer a priest,
and only communicated with Carolyn because Manfred no longer could. She
begs him to help her find Manfred, and Kibbler finally admits the truth:
Manfred is in an insane asylum.

Nancy goes to see Father Manfred and convinces him to help her vanquish
the evil spirit. Michael's erratic behavior intensifies as the hauntings
escalate, culminating in a horrific attack on one of Jessica's friends
and the mysterious disappearance of a local delivery man. And it soon
becomes clear that Michael is building an exact replica of the
Amityville house. Nancy finally convinces Kibbler and Father Manfred to
put aside their bad blood and help her fight the evil spirit and cast it
from the house.

But if they think the spirit will go quietly or that they even know the
source of its strength, they have another thing coming. AMITYVILLE - THE
LEGACY 3D reinvigorates a classic franchise with astonishing scares,
dazzling set pieces, and twists that will leave audiences shocked and
hungry for more."

kinda sounds interesting.