 It was one of a spate of 3-D films released in the early 1980s, and was the only Orion Pictures film filmed in the format.Due to a lawsuit between the Lutz family and Dino De Laurentiis over the storyline which did not involve the Lutz family, "Amityville 3-D" was not initially promoted as a sequel, and the name Lutz is never used in the film.However the film does make a reference to the original "Amityville Horror" story.