Sarah’s House from “The Craft”

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Another day, another request – this one also from my friends Lavonna and Katie regarding The Craft.  (You can read yesterday’s post about HarborPlace Tower from the movie here).  During a recent group texting session, Katie asked if I knew the location of the home where Sarah Bailey (Robin Tunney) lived with her dad, Mr. Bailey (Cliff De Young), and her step-mom, Jenny (Jeanine Jackson), in the flick.  Well, not only did I know the location, but I had actually stalked it!  Though I was never a huge fan of The Craft, Sarah’s rambling Spanish-style home made an impression on me when I first watched the film back in 1996.  So when I came across its address a couple of months ago thanks to an anonymous commenter on the Movie Locations and More website (who tracked the pad down all the way from Australia!), I immediately jotted it in my stalking notebook and headed on over there a few weeks later.

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At the beginning of The Craft, Sarah and her family move from San Francisco to Los Angeles.  Their new home first pops up in one of the film’s opening scenes . . .

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. . . and is then seen regularly throughout the rest of the movie.

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Thanks to Google Street View, I knew prior to stalking the residence that it was set far back from the road and that virtually none of it was visible.

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You can just barely catch a glimpse of the dwelling in the images below.

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Thankfully, aerial views provide a better look at the property.  As you can see below, the house still looks much the same today as it did back in 1996 when The Craft was filmed.

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Per Zillow, the 1927 home boasts 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3,429 square feet of living space, and a 0.58-acre plot of land.

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Quite a bit of the residence was shown in the movie, including the pool, which was left dry for the shoot.

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The property’s extensive driveway also made an appearance, though it looks substantially different today than it did in 1996 due to some massive foliage growth and the addition of a large detached garage.

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Though the interior of Sarah’s home is said to have been built on a soundstage, I am guessing that it was closely modeled after the property’s real life interior.  Unfortunately, I could not find any photographs of the inside of the residence with which to verify that hunch.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Sarah’s house from The Craft is located at 8330 McGroarty Street in Sunland.

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