"The Amityville Horror" is still a nightmare for a Queens man who spent part of his childhood in the world's most famous haunted house, he says.
Daniel Lutz and his family called 112 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, LI, home for just 28 days before fleeing for their lives in the middle of the night nearly 37 years ago, when Lutz was 10 years old.
The family's real-life scary movie was chronicled in the 1977 book and 1979 movie "The Amityville Horror'' — and Lutz now details their harrowing ordeal himself for the first time in a new documentary, "My Amityville Horror."
AP
NIGHTMARE LIVES ON: Daniel Lutz is now telling his family's story of living in the famously haunted "Amityville Horror" house.
Daniel Lutz as a kid
"My job was to haul boxes inside," Lutz, now 47, recalled of his family's move into the four-bedroom house on Long Island's South Shore in early 1976. "Then I went into the house's playroom to find about four or five hundred flies buzzing about.
"I stood there with a newspaper smashing them on the walls, smashing them on the window. I killed about a hundred in five minutes. Then I ran downstairs to tell Mom, and when I came back up, the dead flies had gone. Even the newspaper had gone."
The documentary, which does not yet have a scheduled release date, is making the rounds at industry film festivals.
"I believe evil can manifest itself in any way, shape or form it chooses and that I was a victim of that," Lutz said in the film. "My mom used to say, 'Good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people. But sometimes, bad things happen to good people.' "
Lutz said his mother, stepfather and two younger siblings moved into the house despite its macabre history: A year earlier, drug addict Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, had slaughtered his mother, father and four brothers and sisters as they lay in their beds.
DeFeo said the "voice of God" told him to do it. He is serving a life sentence in prison.
The Lutz family moved in, and their lives would never be the same.
There were spooky incidents involving levitation, visits from unseen spirits and a bedroom sighting of an angry pig with wolf-like teeth, Lutz said.
"A spirit came into the house, bumps into my mother, walks through my hands, knocks a peanut-butter knife down onto the floor and sits down," Lutz said. "Then, in three seconds, it was gone."
Many believed that the family made up the story because they couldn't afford their mortgage or that the tales were connected to the now-dead stepfather's alleged interest in the occult. But Lutz, who lives in Whitestone and drives a delivery van, dismisses the naysayers, saying he's coming out now to confront his past.
"I stopped trying to persuade people about this a long time ago," he said.
Lutz said he still remembers his final day in the house.
"My brother and myself shared a levitation experience in our beds," Lutz said. "We both woke up, and our headboards and footboards were smashing each other and banging off the ceiling.
"Mom said, 'Go pack a bag. We're going to Grandma's. We're getting out of here.' I didn't know we were never coming back. "
leonard.greene@nypost.com
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