MrRING
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I've been watching the first season box set of the classic Mission Impossible series when I got to the episode Zubrovnik's Ghost. The shocker: a number of scenes from The Amityville Haunting seem to have been taken from this episode, and I can't help but wonder if it influensed Jay Anson when writing the novel (the believer's position) or the Lutz family when they made it all up (the skeptic's position).
Specific scenes in Mission that were replayed in Amityville:
1) Bees. Specifically, bees congregating on window paines while there is a heightened HUMMM on the soundtrack. The shots are quite similar to AH, and even though AH used flies, the method they used to get them to slowly build in number around the glass is the same. More interesting still is that the sound effect is the exact same one used in the film (or, the effect of multiple fly and multiple bee wings sound the same).
2) The bees eventually break in and cause one fellow to fall to his death, and another is stung to death. In AH, the flies congregate and frighten the priest and the family.
3) A large menacing dog who moves in and out of the story, similar to the prominent role the dog played in AH (both indicate detection of supernatural presences).
4) The basement factors in briefly in MI, and in particular the dog goes under a little room under the stairs when the MI psychic deduces a character is dead. Similar to the "red room" under the stairs in AH.
The bees are the big connection here. Were loudly buzzing bees &/or flies used to indicate a haunting presence before MI?
Specific scenes in Mission that were replayed in Amityville:
1) Bees. Specifically, bees congregating on window paines while there is a heightened HUMMM on the soundtrack. The shots are quite similar to AH, and even though AH used flies, the method they used to get them to slowly build in number around the glass is the same. More interesting still is that the sound effect is the exact same one used in the film (or, the effect of multiple fly and multiple bee wings sound the same).
2) The bees eventually break in and cause one fellow to fall to his death, and another is stung to death. In AH, the flies congregate and frighten the priest and the family.
3) A large menacing dog who moves in and out of the story, similar to the prominent role the dog played in AH (both indicate detection of supernatural presences).
4) The basement factors in briefly in MI, and in particular the dog goes under a little room under the stairs when the MI psychic deduces a character is dead. Similar to the "red room" under the stairs in AH.
The bees are the big connection here. Were loudly buzzing bees &/or flies used to indicate a haunting presence before MI?