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(#1) Friday the 13th
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Camp Crystal Lake from Friday the 13th is actually Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick, NJ, at 1 Sand Pond Road. The Boy Scout Camp embraces its legacy as the site of the film and offers guests tours of the location. The paid tours, which routinely sell out in minutes, are the only way to see the site. Your best chance at taking the tour involves entering a lottery for a chance to purchase tickets.
Otherwise, you're out of luck: to protect kids at the camp, the folks there don't let in fans who try to stop by unannounced.
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(#2) Jaws
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Amity Island isn't any more real than the gigantic great white that held its beaches hostage one summer in 1975. But fans can visit Sylvia State Beach at 180 Beach Road in Massachusetts where the first summer blockbuster was filmed.
Though damaged by erosion in the 1990s, the two-mile stretch of beach and ocean is rebuilt and ready for Jaws aficionados to bask on its sand or brave its waters.
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(#3) The Omen
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The home of Ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck), his wife Katherine (Lee Remick), and their son, Damien (Harvey Stephens), is where Damien's nanny takes her life during a birthday party. Later, the satanic child pushes his mother over a staircase railing.
The real house, known as Pyrford Court, stands in Surrey, England. The 15-bedroom home was built in 1910 for the second Lord Iveagh - whose family is known for making Guinness beer. As of 2015, billionaire John Grayken owned the mansion and its 20 acres, so potential visitors should respect the private property.
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(#4) The Silence of the Lambs
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Known for its part in the terrifying climax of the Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill's plain Pennsylvania house stood in stark contrast to the horrors happening within it. The house still stands at 8 Circle St., Perryopolis, PA.
It sold for $195,000 in 2016 and looks nothing like the virulent mess it was in the movie. The restored Queen Anne private home, built in 1910, is plain but charming, and still serves as a backdrop for fan photos.
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(#5) The Shining
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The ever-shifting interiors of The Shining's Overlook Hotel existed on a soundstage, but the massive lodge seen in the opening and subsequent exterior scenes was Timberline Lodge. Located at 27500 E. Timberline Road on the south slope of Mount Hood in Oregon, the Timberline offers outdoor activities such as skiing and hiking to paying members of the public.
Sadly, no garden maze or frozen Jack Nicholson exists at the 80-year-old mountain hotel.
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(#6) The Exorcist
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The home of possessed child Regan and her mother Chris MacNeil from The Exorcist stands at 3600 Prospect St. NW in Washington, DC. According to real estate website Zillow, the 1950 home last received an update in 2004 and boasts three bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Fans can, however, visit the DC stairs where Father Karras (Jason Miller) falls down during the movie's climax. In 2015, the nation's capital designated the site a tourist attraction and officially recognized the steps as a part of movie history with a plaque.
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(#7) Halloween
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Several Los Angeles-area homes featured in the 1978 horror classic film Halloween are still around and look much as they did in the film. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) babysits in the Doyle house, which fans can visit at 1530 N. Orange Grove Ave., Los Angeles, just north of Sunset Boulevard.
Other buildings featured in the film are in South Pasadena. The Myers house, formerly on Meridian Avenue, is still intact, but was moved around the corner from its former location to 1000 Mission St. The city of South Pasadena designated the home, called the Century House, a city landmark. The renovated, repainted building is closed to the public, but the owners have provided prop pumpkins along with explicit permission to take photos outside the multi-tenant home.
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(#8) A Nightmare on Elm Street
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The Thompson house provided the backdrop for many of hero Nancy's (Heather Langenkamp) horrifying run-ins with movie monster Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) in A Nightmare on Elm Street. The iconic horror house, at 1428 N. Genesee Ave., Los Angeles, CA, needed a lot of help when Angie Hill got her hands on it in 2006.
After giving the home a new layout and fully renovating the inside, but leaving the exterior intact, she sold it for $2.1 million in 2013.
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(#9) Scream
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The house where Scream hero Prescott (Neve Campbell) waits for her best friend, Tatum (Rose McGowan), stands at 1800 Calistoga Road, Santa Rosa, CA. On more than 25 acres, the 3,500-square-foot home boasts a gate that keeps out fans hoping to take photos on the Prescott porch.
The movie's creators initially planned to film the movie's Woodsboro High School scenes at Santa Rosa High, but the city and school apparently nixed the idea, so they filmed the school scenes instead at the Sonoma Community Center, at 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma, CA. The center houses several rentable venues and offers classes in art, music, and cooking.
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(#10) Psycho
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The final resting place of Norman Bates's mother in Psycho was never real, erected only on a movie lot for filming in 1960. The house is a now a part of the Universal Studio Tour available to patrons of the movie company's Hollywood theme park.
Both the house and the Bates Motel exist only as facades on the movie lot.
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(#11) Night of the Living Dead
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George A. Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead opens with siblings Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny (Russell Streiner) arriving at their father's gravesite before a zombie accosts them. Luckily for fans, Evans City Cemetery in Pennsylvania embraces its role in the birth of zombie movies.
Visitors can walk past the grave markers seen in some frames of the movie, as well as the chapel on the property.
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(#12) The Amityville Horror
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Ronald DeFeo Jr. took the lives of his entire family at a home in Amityville, Long Island, one year before the Lutz family purchased it in December 1975. The Lutz family claimed that odd occurrences plagued their residency, at 112 Ocean Ave., leading to a movie version of their story in 1979, along with sequels and remakes.
The home itself, abandoned by the Lutz family after only 28 days, still exists at the same location - with a changed house number; it's now 108 Ocean Ave. According to Gizmodo, the family that purchased the house in 1977 lived there for a decade didn't encounter any odd phenomena.
According to Zillow, the renovated home last sold for $605,000 in 2017. Over the years, two windows that apparently resembled eyes were removed.
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(#13) Rosemary's Baby
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In Rosemary's Baby, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), live in the fictional Bramford building where they meet controlling neighbors Roman (Sidney Blackmer) and Minnie (Ruth Gordon). Much of the action in the film, including the climax, takes place inside the apartment building. Director Roman Polanski used the real New York City luxury apartment building called the Dakota as his film's Bramford.
Located at 1 W. 72nd St. across from Central Park on the Upper West Side, the apartments within are likely out of reach for horror buffs, but the outside of the building remains an excellent photo opportunity.
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(#14) The Blair Witch Project
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A phenomenon at the time of its release in 1999, The Blair Witch Project follows three college students filming footage for a documentary about its titular subject. Set in the town of Burkittsville, MD, most of the film was actually shot in Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg, MD.
The forested location boasts 6,300 acres and offers hiking, boating, fishing, and other activities to visitors.
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(#15) The Ring
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Featured in the cursed tape put together by Samara (Deveigh Chase) and figuring prominently in the investigation performed by Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), the Moesko Island Lighthouse plays a crucial role in 2002's The Ring. Alas, Moesko Island is not real, so director Gore Verbinski settled for Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, OR.
The 93-foot-tall tower, built in 1872, is Oregon's tallest lighthouse. The structure is open to the public.
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(#16) Paranormal Activity
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The San Diego house where Katie (Katie Featherstone) and Micah (Micah Sloat) encounter a demonic spirit in Paranormal Activity belonged to director Oren Peli during filming. It was the sole setting for Peli's film, which grossed millions on a shoestring budget of less than $15,000.
According to Zillow, the 4-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom home at 13236 Bavarian Drive in San Diego, CA, quickly sold as soon as it went on the market in 2015. Naturally, the interior of the home in the real estate photos looks considerably brighter and less creepy than the found-footage look in the film.
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(#17) Poltergeist
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The Freeling family of Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit horror movie Poltergeist lived in a nice new housing development built over a cemetery. The real house sits at 4267 Roxbury St. in Simi Valley, CA, and looks just like it did in the film. Supposedly housing the same family since 1979, it shows no signs of damage from its fictional escapades.
Fans can drive by or take a picture from the sidewalk, but the home is definitely private property.
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(#18) Dawn of the Dead
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Located at 200 Mall Circle Drive, Pennsylvania's Monroeville Mall shelters the characters in George A. Romero's 1978 film Dawn of the Dead. Working after hours, the director used the Monroeville location and its many stores as a stronghold in the struggle against the encroaching zombies.
Still in business, the mall is home to a bust of Romero which was unveiled at "The Living Dead" weekend in 2018.
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(#19) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Many of the filming locations in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was marketed as a true story (it wasn't), still exist around Texas. The Sawyer family house of horrors, a Queen Anne-style cottage originally located in Round Rock, was moved in the 1900s. It's now the Grand Central Cafe, at 1010 King Court in Kingsland.
The Last Chance Gas Station visited by the movie's characters went through several changes over the years, including stints as Bilbo's Texas Landmark and Ryan's Hills Prairie Grocery. Now known as The Gas Station, it's still located at 1073 State Highway 304 in Bastrop. The place is now a barbecue joint and shop that sells film memorabilia, and visitors can also book one of four rustic cabins on the property.
According to the Guardian, the owners are an Ohio entrepreneur named Roy Rose and Ari Lehman - who played Jason Voorhees in the first Friday the 13th film.
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(#20) It Follows
In It Follows, a sinister paranormal plague passes from person to person through intercourse, dooming the last in line with ghostly stalkers intent on catching and slaying them. At the beginning of the movie, Jay (Maika Monroe) is strapped into a wheelchair and pushed through an abandoned building by her one-night-stand (Jake Weary). Director David Robert Mitchell filmed the scene at the abandoned Packard Automotive Plant at 5815 Concord St. in Detroit, MI.
Previously a booming automotive headquarters, the building is now desolate and abandoned. Adventurous moviegoers should note that the Packard Plant is not open to the public and trying to enter is not legal.
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(#21) The Devil's Rejects
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The Devil's Rejects, Rob Zombie's 2005 sequel, features members of the Firefly family evading law enforcement officers hunting them for the slayings in the first film. The Kahiki Palms Motel in the movie is really Club Ed in the California desert, at 42828 150th St. in Lancaster.
Except the desert spot is not a real club: it's a movie set that was originally built for the 1991 movie Eye of the Storm starring Dennis Hopper. The site includes a vintage gas station, roadside restaurant, and hotel.
It is still available for movie and television shoots, so no trespassing unless the caretaker provides permission.
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