Only In Amityville

Episode 7 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  House of the Long Shadows (1983). So we come to our final movie of the year. House of the Long Shadows is a British comedy horror film, which premiered on June 17th 1983. Based on a 1913 novel, Seven Keys to Baldpate by author Earl Derr Biggers, House of the Long Shadows was directed by Pete Walker and penned by M...

Episode 6 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  The Asphyx  (1972). The Asphyx is a British sci-fi horror film released December 5th, 1972. Peter Newbrook directed while his good friends Christina Beers, Laurence Beers, and Brian Comport did the writing. Like other movies on this year’s list, The Asphyx fits into the gothic sect of the horror genre. Some charac...

Episode 5 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  The Dunwich Horror  (1969). The Dunwich Horror is an American supernatural horror film that premiered on January 14, 1970 in Chicago Illinois, one of the scariest cities on record. It was directed by Daniel Haller and written by three men: Curtis Hanson, Henry Rosenbaum, and Ronald Silkosky. It was adapted from HP...

Episode 4 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  The House That Screamed (1969). Released on December 8th, 1969, The house That Screamed is a Spanish slasher horror film written and directed by Chicho Ibanez Serrador. It was Based on a short story by Juan Tébar. Director Serrador chose to make The house That Screamed , his first horror movie, as a product for in...

Episode 3 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  Die, Monster, Die!  (1965). Die, Monster, Die! is an American sci-fi Horror film released on October 27th 1965. It was directed by Daniel Haller and written by Jerry Sohl. It was a loose adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s “The Color out of Space” and featured Horror Legend Borris Karloff in a mad scientist role some hav...

Episode 2 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  The Gorgon  (1964). Released on October 18, 1964 in jolly old Ingerland. The Gorgon is a British gothic horror thriller directed by famed horror director Terence Fisher, and written By John Gilling and Anthony Nelson Keys. The movie was shot by cinematographer Michael Reed. While Roger Corman was making Hollywood...

Episode 1 of Season 4! Host, Gratton Conwill and special guest, Matt Fields discuss  House of Usher  (1960). House of Usher is a mid budget Hollywood horror film directed and produced by Roger Corman. House of Usher was written by Richard Matheson. Matheson was an accomplished author and screenwriter, known for writing several episodes of The Twilight Zone TV series, Stephen Spielberg's first...

Thanks for listening to Only in Amityville: Matt's Sick and Twisted Game. JUST in time for November, here's a little retrospective on this crazy thing we did this year. The smoke has cleared and the wounded are moaning, so it's time for us to do a deep dive on what made Only in Amityville: Matt's Sick and Twisted Game the most successful season of Only in Amityville yet!* And perhaps the most succ...

Episode 16 of Season 3! Braindead (1992) Endgame Well, well, well... it does seem we've reached the terminal point. It's over. It's finished. It's done. The podcast is complete. It's hard to believe that it's been just one month since the beginning of this season. It feels like more, but it really has only been one month. Time flies when you're having fun, so to speak.  Free of the Amityville...

Episode 15 of Season 3! Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995) Checkmate This game has changed me. The hallways in the castle (the one I live in) have grown dim, damp, an acrid smell having crept out of the cracks between the stones which construct the walls. The torches and sconces are unlit, lifeless, only remembered when caught in a pale and waning shard of moonlight. The servants have all g...

Episode 14 of Season 3! It's Anyone's Game The year is 2042, you're running through a field completely naked. Sweat pours out of your nose as you crush snails beneath your feet. The shards of snail shells cut deep, and the pain sends shockwaves deep into your frail bones. You're going to be late, no matter how fast you run, you'll never get there in time. Your only hope is that you can catch a lit...

Episode 13 of Season 3! Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) OVERTIME Ohhh God dammit! I fell asleep! Where's my fucking phone oh my God. Shit, okay, hi hey what's up guys so um part of my sick and twisted game is to have the... episodes come out... past Halloween? Alright man, I'll level with you. I fell asleep, I totally crashed out. And... it kind of messed things up so just hang tight and um... Wel...

Episode 12 of Season 3! Night of the Comet (1984) An Uneasy Alliance Gratton may be taking some of the workload off my shoulders, but that doesn't make this game any less sick and twisted than it was before. He's just helping me out because I've kind of got a lot going on at the moment, I mean not that much but I guess a lot of little stuff and a lot of stuff is just kind of converging, I've got t...

Episode 11 of Season 3! Night of the Creeps (1986) Foul Play Can a person who is truly sick and twisted, as I am, ever be truly good? Can I ever be cured? Can I ever be untwisted? I have long pondered this question, and its weight has nearly given me scoliosis of the back. If you'd asked just hours ago what I thought the answer might be, I'd have told you, "No." Just like that. But that would have...

Episode 10 of Season 3! Night of the Demons (1988) Royal Flush Life, as it were, is not dissimilar to a game of poker, as it were. We all play the parts of the cards - kings, queens, jesters... um, diamonds... fours... We're organized into decks, then dealt out into hands... but it is the players who make the moves... and play the odds... the only question is... who, truly and in the most undeniab...

Episode 9 of Season 3! Gratton Gets the Upper Hand Scoundrel! How could I have foreseen Gratton getting the upper hand in such an unexpected way?! Drat! FUCK! I'm fucking PISSED OFF now! I let my guard down for a mere moment, and Gratton took the opportunity to disrupt my plans and stab me in the forearm, scoundrel he is! A true villain in every respect! GOD DAMMIT I'm getting more and more fricki...

Episode 8 of Season 2! The Burning (1981) HALFTIME Well, well, well... It's been a long time coming, but we're finally here at the halfway point. Are your vocal cords fried? Are your lungs screaming for air? I suppose terrified screams will do that to you... heheheheh... I'll allow you to catch your breath, give you some time for the adrenaline to die down. Get some snacks - some popcorn, some mea...

Episode of 7 of Season 3! Brain Damage (1988) King Takes Pawn We're nearly halfway through the game, which is basically actually halfway. But not really. I have endless tricks and sights and smells up my sleeves. The game is only getting more fascinating. Toying with Gratton's mind reminds me of plucking the legs and wings off of flies. When I was a little boy, my grandma would catch me and beat m...

Episode 6 of Season 3! Arachnophobia (1990) GAME PLAN 1. Capture Gratton 2. Fool him into thinking he is free, when in actuality, he is simply a rat - so to speak - in my little maze - so to speak.  3. Torment Gratton psychologically. Toy with his mind.  (REMINDER: Fill all the rooms in Gratton's house with concrete.) There are many more steps to come in my little game, but I would be a...

Episode 5 of Season 3! Pet Sematary (1989) Bingo of the Soul I used to eat cheese. Not just every now and then or mixed in with certain dishes or something. If you'd seen me just two months ago, you'd have a brand new definition for the phrase "eating cheese." Mozzarella. Gouda. Cheddar. Swiss. Cream cheese. Sharp cheddar. Parmesan. Gorgonzola. Brie. Cottage. I had it all. They had my picture by t...

Episode 4 of Season 3! Nightbreed (1990) A Brush With Death I remember my youth well. Summers by the Gwäfzštūfvên River, Autumns at the lake house in Dïngdłēdøü. And the winters, the brutal winters... My father was a difficult man - anyone from the village would have told you so, perhaps not in words so kind. He owned a sausage factory just outside of Håültærtōp. It brought great prosperity to our...

Episode 3 of Season 3!  Basket Case (1982) Game Theory "Mr. President?" "Yes Gabe?" "We have a problem." "Oh what's the matter? Is it the Russians again?" "Well, no sir, it's - " "The North Koreans?" "No sir, if you'll -" " The British. " "No sir, it's not a foreign entity, not exactly. It's actually this Sick and Twisted Game issue..." "By God, Gabe, I thought that the game had ended, I was...

Episode 2 of Season 3! The Sentinel (1977) Opening Moves I must say, Gratton has proved himself a quite formidable opponent in this twisted little game of mine. He may think he has the upper hand, that the game is coming to an end, but he is horribly mistaken. Recent events have been but mere arrangements of my pawns, so to speak. I have much more in store than I suspect he could ever imagine. If...

Episode 1 of Season 3! Zombie/Zombi/Zombie 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters - (1979) The Game Begins Well, well, well... look who's reading the description of this episode. Oh? Why the long face? Wondering where Gratton is? Don't worry about him. He's... occupied... yes... heheheheh . Occupied with a little game I've prepared for him. One that a listener like you might call... sick ? Twisted , perhaps? Think...

From the creators of Giant Monster BS: Gratton Conwill and Matt Fields bring you Only In Amityville Season 3: Matt's Sick and Twisted Game! Only In Amityville Season 3: Matt's Sick and Twisted Game is a limited series podcast event happening exclusively during October of 2022! Starting October 1st, we will review one movie every other day. Fans of Giant Monster BS and/or  Horror films will be...