by Michelle Willson, Editor-in-Chief
“American Murder: The Family Next door” follows the story of the 2018 Watts family murders that took place in Frederick, Colorado. “American Murder” is an American true crime documentary film directed by Jenny Popplewell.
I know the story. I was watching it as it appeared on the news so I knew what the ending would be. Unlike most real-life documentaries this one has a paranormal aspect if you look closely.
In scenes from the cop’s investigation, you can see what appears to be the two girls coming down the stairs and playing in their room.
At one point they hear a giggle that they assume to be a doll they stepped on, but they are not able to recreate the noise. The laugh sounds like one of the girls and is almost identical to the laugh in one of their home movies and at one point you can hear what appears to be a whisper saying “I am with Cece” which was one of the girl’s nicknames.
The scene that stood out the most to me was the scene in the neighbor’s house. After the neighbor turns off the recording a commercial for “American Horror story” comes on and at first glance you like “Oh it is a commercial” but the Commercial starts with a fetus in a womb (His wife was pregnant) and then a skull in a puddle of oil (If you know the Watts story you know why that is relevant)
I honestly feel like the commercial was a little too relevant to the current situation and It was the reason that his wife’s pregnancy got brought into the conversation.
I would honestly give this movie a 3 out of 5 stars.
It was a little drawn out, but I was not watching it for the storyline. I was watching it to catch the paranormal events.
I think it is an interesting watch and I would recommend everyone watches it… or watch YouTube videos of the scenes in the movie where a Youtuber is pointing out the paranormal events because it is fascinating.You should watch this movie especially if you are on the edge of whether or not ghost exist because honestly i think this documentary has some hard hitting evidence that ghost can and do exist. That one more thing we can add to the “Weird things that happened in 2020 list” and we still got 2 more months to go.