‘The Amityville Horror’ House and Other Famous Scary Movie Homes for Sale
Here’s the thing about horror movie houses: Aside from all the creepy ghosts and pesky blood stains, the houses themselves are often gorgeous. Looking at listings for the beautiful Los Angeles home where Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) lived in Nightmare on Elm Street or the elegant apartment building where Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) conceived a demon in Rosemary’s Baby, it’s easy to forget that these locations caused so many nightmares.
Of course, it’s a little different when the house is the stuff of actual nightmares. The house that inspired the film The Amityville Horror has just gone on the market and potential buyers will have to overlook both its reported haunted history and the six real murders that took place there in 1974. Then again, there have been four owners since the crime took place — and as the listing agent told People, “None of them ran out of the house screaming.” (For what it’s worth, the doppelgänger house used in the 1979 film sold in 2013.)
If you’re interested in exploring your horror home options, check out this slideshow of properties currently on the market (Buffalo Bill’s Victorian house from Silence of the Lambs, located in rural Pennsylvania) and recently sold (the San Diego house where Paranormal Activity was filmed). Happy house haunting — er, hunting!
The Amityville Horror (The real deal)
For Sale. Asking price: $850,000. This five-bedroom Long Island colonial is a gorgeous house with a gory history: a notorious 1974 murder and the reported paranormal activity that followed inspired the 1979 film The Amityville Horror (remade in 2005) and features in the plot of The Conjuring 2. (Photo: Realtor.com)
The Amityville Horror (The movie version)
Sold in 2013. Asking price: $955,000. In 1979’s The Amityviille Horror, the role of the haunted house was played by this lookalike waterfront home in Toms River, N.J, which went on the market in 2011. (Photo: Zillow/MGM)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Sold in 2013. Asking price: $2.1 million. It’s not really on Elm Street, or even in Ohio, but this Los Angeles home was used for the exterior of Nancy Thompson’s house in 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Thanks to a gut renovation in 2006, you’d never know Freddy Krueger was here. (Photo: Zillow/New Line)
Paranormal Activity
Sold in 2015. Asking price: $749,000. Most of these horror movie homes were used for exterior shots only, but 2007’s found-footage blockbuster Paranormal Activity was actually filmed in this suburban San Diego house, which sold within days of going on the market in January 2015. (Photo: Curbed/Paramount)
Silence of the Lambs
For Sale. Asking price: $224,900. This Victorian home outside Pittsburgh served as serial killer Buffalo Bill’s hideout in 1991’s Silence of the Lambs. On the market since August 2015, the 5-bedroom house dropped in price by $50,000 earlier this year. (Photo: Berkshire Hathaway/Orion)
Rosemary’s Baby
For Sale. Price per unit: $1.8 million to $29 million. Called the Bramford in 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby, this luxury apartment complex is actually the Dakota, an 1884 landmark co-op that has been called New York City’s “most exclusive building.” Good luck with that application! (Photo: City Realty/Paramount)
The Twilight Saga
For Sale. Asking price: $2.7 million. As sexy as the vampires who occupied it in the Twilight films, this ultra-modern Vancouver home (complete with koi pond, pool, and chef’s kitchen) went on the market in 2009 for $3.3 million. The price has since dropped. (Photo: Soprovich.com/Summit)
The House on Haunted Hill
Sold in 2011. Asking price: $4.5 million. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Ennis House in Los Angeles served as the titular mansion in 1959’s The House on Haunted Hill, among many other film appearances. The residence is now owned by billionaire Ron Burkle. (Photo: EnnisHouse.com/United Artists)
Poltergeist
Sold (as a stunt) in 2015. As part of a viral marketing campaign for the 2015 Poltergeist remake, the house from the original film in Simi Valley, Calif., was “listed” on real estate website Trulia. The straight-faced page promised that the house was in “an ideal neighborhood for any growing family” and built on “a site with a lot of history.” (Photo: Trulia/MGM)
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