Tag: horror movie filming locations

Nightmare on Elm Street house, located at 1428 North Genesee, Los Angeles, CA.     Genesee Street, where Halloween (1978) and Nightmare on Elm Street were filmed.

  Dunsmuir House, as seen in Phantasm (1979) and Burnt Offerings (1976), among others.  

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 …

  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 …

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 …

  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 …