ERIC WALTER DIRECTOR
Producer
EDITOR
ABOUT ERIC
Eric Walter is a director, producer, and award-winning editor.
His directorial debut, My Amityville Horror, garnered critical acclaim and was distributed by IFC Films and SundanceNOW. The documentary feature offers a unique and psychologically driven perspective on one of America's most infamous haunted house cases.
From investigative documentaries to polished theatrical trailers, Eric’s work as an editor has been featured on Netflix, HBO, FX, Hulu, among others.
He is frequently consulted as an expert on topics related to the unexplained, mysterious, and paranormal. He has been profiled by networks such as ABC, A&E, History, and Discovery+, lending his insight to programs that explore strange phenomena and unsolved mysteries.
Eric is also the founder of Lost Witness Films, a production company dedicated to uncovering the hidden stories of individuals touched by the mysterious and unexplained. Blending investigative depth with cinematic storytelling, Lost Witness brings obscure witnesses and overlooked voices to light — crafting emotionally resonant narratives that challenge conventional understanding and invite deeper inquiry into the unknown.
SYNOPSIS
For the first time ever, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975.
George and Kathleen Lutz's story went on to inspire a best-selling novel and the subsequent films have continued to fascinate audiences today. This documentary reveals the horror behind growing up as part of a world famous haunting and while Daniel's facts may be other's fiction, the psychological scars he carries are indisputable.
PORTFOLIO / DOCUMENTARIES
my amityville horror
PORTFOLIO / DOCUMENTARIES
DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
SYNOPSIS
In the Colorado mountain town of Silver Plume, journalist Keith Reinhard mysteriously vanished while writing a novel about another man’s disappearance. Despite one of the largest search and rescue missions ever launched in Colorado’s history, no trace of Keith Reinhard was ever found.
Three decades later, sinister questions about what actually happened to Reinhard have given rise to a story of legend in Silver Plume - a town haunted by a century-old pattern of tragedy and death.
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“One of history’s most famous haunted houses casts a long shadow in My Amityville Horror. Eric Walter’s tantalizing doc should please both believers and die-hard skeptics.“
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“Eric Walter’s absorbing documentary My Amityville Horror stands apart from most Amityville-alia. He explores the hoax-or-horror debate, but his chief concern is the effect of a world-famous haunting on one of the people who experienced it.”
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“Walter’s film succeeds is in rendering Lutz, on screen throughout, as an indelibly prickly and unsettling figure.”
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“Daniel’s childhood demons are an impossible combination of supposed paranormal horror, true crime ghastliness, and childhood abuse. In the inferno that is his mind, they’ve become interlocked, and in the movie based on his life, they are essential and wholly riveting.”
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“It can be unequivocally stated that My Amityville Horror is the most true-to-life film to deal with the phenomenon, and pretty much as unequivocally stated that it’s the best of them too.”
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“My Amityville Horror takes a pragmatic, skeptical approach most documentarians working in this genre might have been scared off by.”
SHORT DOCS
MIRAGE
BMPCC 4K / Canon FD 50mm F/1.8
Joshua Tree's prehistoric terrain makes you feel like you're visiting an alien planet, so it was easy to give this footage an atmospheric structure in post.
Shot using a vintage Canon FD 50mm F/1.8 with FD-MFT Metabones Speed Booster Ultra 0.71x. For filters, I used a Tiffen Black Pro Mist 1/4 and my NiSi IRND 0.9 with a 4x5.65 Tilta Matte Box. Editing and grading were done in Premiere using the Crunchy Gold LUT by BUTTERY LUTs.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Contact
eric@ericwalterdocs.com
(443) 614-7798
Lost Witness Films, Inc.
5000 Thayer Center, STE C
Oakland, Maryland 21550