Dimension Films and Miramax have tapped filmmakers Casey La Scala and Daniel Farrands to write and direct the recently greenlit sequel The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes. The film will pick up where the original 1979 haunted house thriller left off via found footage dating back to 1976.

The film’s synopsis reads:

An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror … only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.

Dimension Films distributed Platinum Dunes remake of The Amityville Horror in 2005. The film, which starred Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Chloe Moretz, and Rachel Nichols, went on the earn over $109 million in worldwide gross.

The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes is slated for release on Jan. 27, 2012.