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The Real ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ House from Wes Craven’s Original Classic Just Sold for $3 Million
It’s 1428 Elm Street in Springwood, Ohio in the movies but in real life the iconic house that Nancy Thompson calls home in A Nightmare on Elm Street is 1428 North Genesee Avenue in Los Angeles, California. As you may recall, the iconic movie house went back on the market this past Halloween season, and today we’ve learned that it now has a new owner.
The house went on the market for $3.25 million back in October, and CNN Entertainment reports this week that it was just sold for a little bit less than the asking price: $2.98 million.
The previous owner – Lorene Scafaria, director of films such as Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and 2019’s Hustlers – had purchased the house for $2.1 million back in 2013.
The two-story house features three bedrooms and four bathrooms, and right across the street you can see the house of Johnny Depp’s Glen Lantz, just like in Wes Craven’s movie!
CNN details, “The three-bedroom Dutch Colonial got a major facelift in the years since Wes Craven’s 1984 film was released, though its exterior remained the same. But the rest of the home was “reimagined by an English designer in the mid-2000s,” so it’s brighter, whiter and airier than the famous movie monster would’ve liked. All egregiously ’80s flourishes have been replaced — and the door, once blood-red, is now painted a stately black.”
Believe it or not, the house was also used for John Carpenter’s Halloween!
Watch stars Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund return to the iconic property decades later in the below video, a reunion Entertainment Tonight made happen back in 2013!
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reteaming for the long-awaited 28 Years Later horror sequel trilogy, and the first film in that new trilogy now has a release date.
28 Years Later arrives in theaters on June 20, 2025 from Sony.
Jack O’Connell (Amy Winehouse: Back To Black) has joined the previously announced Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu) in the upcoming 28 Years Later.
Alex Garland will write the first film and Boyle will return to direct. Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels) will direct the second installment in the trilogy from Sony Pictures.
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer.
The original movie in 2002 starred Cillian Murphy and was written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle. In the smash hit horror film, “Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.”
A sequel, 28 Weeks Later, arrived in 2007. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo took over as director. In the sequel, which starred Jeremy Renner, “Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.”
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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