The Griggs House in Granite, MD, from The Blair Witch Project. The Griggs House, used for the finale of The Blair Witch Project, was abandoned for many years but allegedly in relatively solid condition until the film was released. After years of movie “fans” taking chunks of the historic 200-year-old house, the state couldn’t…
The Chicken Ranch house, originally used for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), now sits on the original location of the Psycho house facade. The Psycho facade was first constructed on a hill just behind Universal’s famous Colonial Street, now better known as Wisteria Lane, but was moved immediately prior to the 1983…
Ettington Park, Stratford-Upon-Avon, used for the original 1963 version of The Haunting. Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, as seen in the 1999 remake of The Haunting
The Black Christmas (1974) sorority house, a private residence in Toronto used for the film. Update: A better photo of the Black Christmas house as it looks today, from JP1958 on Flickr. More about the house can be found here.
This is the house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, NY, where the DeFeo murders were committed on November 13, 1974. It was this house that was purchased by the Lutz family in December, 1975, which led them to write their horror novel The Amityville Horror. Note that the infamous eye-shaped windows that used to be…
Then and now: The house at Wykehurst Park, Sussex, used for the exteriors in The Legend of Hell House. Bottom photo courtesy British Listed Buildings.
Schoolhouse from The Birds. From here. The Tides Restaurant as it looks today. The Catholic Church with the schoolhouse to the left. From Leon Turnbull. Hitch and Hedren just outside the schoolhouse. The church is easily visible on the right. From the Bodega Bay International Short Film Festival page,…
The Saltair Dance Pavilion in 1955, used in the iconic horror film Carnival of Souls. From here. More history here. This is the second pavilion built on the site, which was destroyed by arson in 1970. A rail car that used to ferry dancers to and from the pavilion sat near the area until…
Erle Stanley Gardner’s lawyer-slash-detective character Perry Mason was created in 1933, and within a year Warner Bros. created a film series based on the books. The first film, “The Case of the Howling Dog” (1934), was based on a serialized novel published in Liberty Magazine earlier that same year. In all, six Perry Mason films…
I didn’t know whether to go with “Part Deux” or “Electric Boogaloo” for my sequel subject title. “Part Deux” won out, it’s the lesser-known reference. It’s true that I just had a lengthy hiatus, but this is still SBBN’s 2nd blogiversary and I’m here to celebrate it in style. I love my blog and I’ve…