Tonight we hear from Christopher Quaratino (Lutz), who was seven years old when his family lived in the infamous house. There have been books written about it, movies made, and the debate continues to rage on. The Amityville Horror, as it was known has been the subject of a lot of controversy over the years. For the next 28 days the family experienced haunting events that would eventually make this home one of the most famous haunted houses in the world today. In December of 1975, the Lutz Family: George, Kathy, and Kathy’s children Daniel, Melissa, and Christopher, all from a previous marriage moved in. The house sat empty for over a year and the price plummeted. He was convicted of the crime and still sits in jail today. walked into his house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, and shot his two parents, his two brothers, and two sisters dead. On November 13, 1974, Ronald Butch DeFeo Jr. If not, then you can contact this Chris Tarantino at: Chris at person-people dot com with his personal guarantee that he’s never shot any disgruntled members and will never (ever) teach you Photoshop.Description: In Episode 69 we go inside the world’s most famous haunted house - Amityville - with one of the three people still alive today who knows exactly what happened. This is not the Chris Tarantino you are looking for. George’s stepson, Christopher Quaratino, who was 7 when he lived in the house, came forward in 2005 to say that events in The Amityville Horror books and movies had been stretched to the point of. If you are here looking for award-winning digital photo retoucher Chris Tarantino or Long Island gym mogul/convicted murderer Chris Tarantino, move along. Nightwolves, Bob Odenkirk’s Melvin Goes to Dinner , and the all-star ensemble mockumentary Stuntmen. He also created East Village Radio’s (Un)Popular Culture with Chris Tarantino music/chat show, engaging multi-platform guests on pop culture like DJs (Daniel Avery), bands (LA Priest, members of Obits, LCD Soundsystem), music journalists (Barney Hoskyns, Bob Mehr), film directors (John Pirozzi - Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll), photographers (Paradise Garage’s Bill Bernstein) and kitsch video archaeologists ( Everything is Terrible!).īefore all that though, he studied and performed improvisational comedy/sketch writing at The Groundlings for eight years, working regularly as an actor on NBC’s “ Late Night with Conan O’Brien ” (as family favorite ‘Gay Superman’), MTV’s “ Punk’d” (feuding with family favorite ‘Zach Braff’) and a pair of extremely NSFW, non-family-favorite music videos, as well as in films like Helen Keller vs. If you love his voice but are not so into the face, he’s also hosted radio shows like 91.1FM WFMU’s The Private Sector with Chris Tarantino which featured live performances from people like Slowdive’s Neil Halstead, Crazy P, Night Plane, and the first radio appearance for Domino Records’ Hookworms. He was Music Supervisor for the U.S. Military–backed action film Range 15 with William Shatner, Randy Couture and Danny Trejo. He is currently in post-production on The Funk Summit, a documentary he’s directing on Parliament-Funkadelic legend George Clinton. He has written extensively about music and culture as the Nightlife Editor for Time Out New York in addition to freelancing for Playboy, Mixmag (UK), The Village Voice, Flaunt, XLR8R, Insomniac and Anthem Magazine. He has also hosted and produced on-camera interviews for various online outlets with the likes of The Black Madonna, Soul Clap, Poolside, Steve Aoki (haha?), Com Truise, Mathew Jonson & Cobblestone Jazz, Gardens & Villa, Mike Servito, Matrixxman, Brandt Brauer Frick, Catz’n’Dogz, Amon Tobin and John Tejada.īehind the camera he’s played small roles on big films (Locations Assistant on Basquiat), and big roles on small films (Producer on $50K and a Callgirl: A Love Story) as well as directing documentaries on international music festivals. After film school, he worked his way around NY in film production but soon relocated to Los Angeles to study at The Groundlings and work as an actor, eventually returning home to work in music supervision, journalism and freeform radio. Chris has spent most of his life working in film, music, film music, and any other possible permutation thereof. He is known today as Christopher Quaratino, but in the 1970s he was Chris Lutz, a member of the family that moved into the so-called 'Amityville Horror' house after Ronald.