When the kids in Hollywood go around the houses in creepy costumes on October 31st to scare their neighbors and dust off candy, they’ll come back by this house in the Spaulding Square area – and some of them may well be then get them a queasy feeling in their stomach. This house is better known as 1428 Elm St. in Springwood, Ohio; where Freddy Kruger puts children in fear in the horror film series “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.
The house is now owned by the director Lorene Scafaria (“Hustlers”, “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”), she will be distributing sweets to children on Halloween: “We have to celebrate this especially this year because it lasted Year didn’t work out because of the pandemic. This will be the comeback of Halloween. ” The party has only one catch: There should not only be trick-or-treats on the American horror night, there should also be offers for this house, by midnight at the latest. It’s for sale at a price of $ 3.25 million.
Robert Englund in the role of Freddy Krueger during a scene of the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.
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It happens again and again that Los Angeles houses are for sale that can be seen in films or TV series; recently on the market: the villa from the Al Pacino classic “Scarface” in Montecino ($ 35 million), the house from the legendary series “The Brady Bunch” (1.8 million), the beach house in Malibu from “Sex and the City” (Rent only, $ 10,000 a month). Brokers tell you that these properties represent both sides of the same coin. On the one hand, there is this recognition value, fans of the sex-and-the-city character Samantha may find it cool to spend a weekend in this house with an ocean view.
“It always depends on how strong the stigma is attached to the house”
But: Does anyone in this monstrous villa in Montecino want to remember how Al Pacino’s character sniffed a mountain of cocaine and then waited for intruders with a machine gun in his arm? And who wants to live with their family in a house known for a serial killer breaking into children’s dreams and killing them? “It always depends on how strong the stigma is attached to the house,” says Randall Bell, who is Master of Disaster calls and specializes in the sale of tricky real estate. So: does the fascinating outweigh the deterrent? The price of the Scarface villa, for example, fluctuates tremendously; instead of 35 million, only 17 million were called – without anything in the house having changed.
In the case of the Nightmare-on-Elm-Street house, the facade has been completely preserved; it can be clearly identified as the setting from the film. The bright red door from the movie is now black, but that could easily be changed. Of course, this means that the notorious tourist buses often drive by and, especially during Halloween week, many people in Freddy Kruger costumes come and take photos. Here, too, the question is: Do you think that’s cool or rather stupid?
So until Halloween night, people have time to submit an offer for the Dutch-Colonial-style house, built in 1919, with three bedrooms, a pool and a guest house. Incidentally, that also comes from Germany. Another fun fact that advertises the house: The first film in the series in 1984 was the debut of a young man named Johnny Depp.