Healdsburg Town Plaza from “Scream”

Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (1 of 1)

I was saddened to wake up to the news of yet another fire tearing through Sonoma County last Thursday morning, this one threatening Healdsburg, one of my favorite places in the entire world.  Not only is the city idyllic, pastoral and ridiculously charming, but it is a filming location to boot, the main square having stood in for downtown Woodsboro in Scream.  Healdsburg Town Plaza was, in fact, the site of one of my very first stalking adventures back in late 1997.  I have visited it often in the years since, most notably during my epic October 2016 Scream stalking trek in which I hit up every.single.location. featured in the 1996 flick, down to the warehouse where the production’s few sets were built to the hotel where the cast and crew stayed during the 55-day shoot (the latter was, sadly, lost to the Tubbs Fire in October 2017).  Though Healdsburg remains safe from the Kincade Fire for the time being, the city was evacuated and per a Los Angeles Times article is currently a “ghost town,” a situation eerily reminiscent of Scream’s curfew scene which rendered downtown Woodsboro deserted.  I pray that the blaze is controlled soon and my thoughts go out to everyone affected, including my aunt and uncle who were recently evacuated from their home in the area.  For now, I thought a post on Healdsburg Town Plaza was in order.

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The city of Healdsburg was originally envisioned by businessman Harmon Heald.  After failing to strike it rich mining gold, the native Ohioan built a small home in 1851 on what was then a portion of the Rancho Sotoyome land grant.  Figuring the site was perfectly situated between San Francisco and the mining areas north of it and would, therefore, be passed through often, he constructed a general store with a post office soon after.  A community surrounding the shop quickly developed and in 1857 Harmon commissioned a surveyor to layout a design for a town square and surrounding streets and, thus, Healdsburg and its central plaza were born.  The city was incorporated ten years later.

Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (2 of 20)

Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (1 of 20)

Today, the bucolic one-acre Town Plaza boasts a gazebo, a central fountain, pathways, Canary Island date palms, and redwood trees, all surrounded by a sprinkling of charming shops, cafés, and restaurants.  It is small town U.S.A. at its finest!

Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (4 of 20)

Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (12 of 20)

The fountain at its center, known as Sandborn Memorial Fountain, was donated by Elmer Sandborn in remembrance of his family in 1961.  In the square’s early days, though, a bandstand stood as its focal point.  The structure not only drew musical acts, but audiences with alcohol in hand, to the consternation of many locals.  The Ladies’ Improvement Club got to work on curtailing the drinking and eventually won permission to raze the bandstand in the early 1900s, with a 13-foot marble fountain installed in its place.  The revelers couldn’t be curtailed, though – according to The Healdsburg Tribune, a new bandstand was simply built next to the fountain the following day!  Healdsburg Town Plaza also saw raucous times in the 1970s, when the Hells Angels made it their regular hangout.  Today, the park is, thankfully, much more low-key.

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On any given afternoon, you’ll find families picnicking, couples strolling, and visitors relaxing on the many benches that dot the site.

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The space is so idyllic that Travel and Leisure deemed it one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town Squares” in 2013.

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The surrounding town isn’t too shabby, either!

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The last time I visited, in early December 2018, the city was really flaunting its fall colors.

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We just don’t get this kind of Autumn vibrancy in Palm Springs.

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Show off!

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Healdsburg Town Plaza pops up a couple of times in Scream, most notably as the spot where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her friends eat lunch in an early scene.  In the segment, during which Stuart Macher (Matthew Lillard) utters his famous “Liver alone!” line, the group is sitting on Sandborn Memorial Fountain’s north side with their backs to Matheson Street.

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Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (10 of 20)

Sadly, the fountain has been renovated a bit in the years since filming took place, with its rock siding removed and built-in planters added to its corners.

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Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (7 of 20)

Even sadder, the park’s quaint white wooden gazebo, visible in the scene, has since been completely replaced.  According to a Press Democrat article, the original structure was a “casualty of dry rot and changing taste.”  This photo of its demolition, which took place on March 14th, 2007, absolutely breaks my heart.

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Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (6 of 20)

The gazebo is also where Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), wearing her infamous neon green suit, reports on the murders plaguing Woodsboro in a news clip that Sidney catches on TV in a later scene.

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Fortunately, the original gazebo and fountain were both still in place during my early stalks of the square.

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Healdsburg Town Plaza is also seen in an establishing segment in which the sun rises on Woodsboro the morning after Sidney is attacked.  That bit was filmed on the corner of Center and Plaza Streets.

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Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (16 of 20)

Per the sheriff I spoke with during my first Healdsburg stalk, the shot was actually lensed early evening as the sun was setting.  Apparently, Wes Craven intended to capture it the morning of the last day of the Healdsburg portion of the shoot, but ran out of time, so he instead grabbed it later that day at dusk, knowing that audiences would be none the wiser.

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Healdsburg Town Plaza from Scream (17 of 20)

Finally, the plaza serves as a backdrop for the scene in which Woodsboro townspeople lock up and head home before the newly-imposed curfew.  Several shops lining the square are featured in the segment including 104 Matheson Street;

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312 Center Street, which was the site of Healdsburg Coffee Company at the time of the filming, but today houses The Nectary juice bar;

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and the grassy section of the park directly across from 105 Plaza Street . . .

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. . . and 111 Plaza Street.

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Thanks to the Dear Old Hollywood blog, I learned that Healdsburg Town Plaza also appears a few times as Hartfield, Iowa in the 1943 drama Happy Land.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Healdsburg Town Plaza, aka downtown Woodsboro from Scream, is located at the intersection of Healdsburg Avenue & Matheson Street in Healdsburg.

The “Waxwork” House

The Waxwork House (8 of 20)

It’s finally that time again, folks – time for my annual Haunted Hollywood stalkings!  I intended to commence this year’s postings with a real doozy of a murder case, but got held up a bit in my research.  I am currently awaiting some documents from the County of Riverside that should provide more clarity as to the precise location where the killing took place and will write about it just as soon as they arrive.  In the meantime, I thought I would instead kick things off with a locale from a horror classic.  Now, as I’ve mentioned many times, a fan of slasher flicks I am not.  But this past July, my friend Owen tipped me off to a spot that he thought would figure in nicely to an October post – the Hancock Park home that masked as a waxwork, aka a wax museum, in the 1988 horror film of the same name.  As he informed me in his email, the “cool-looking” brick pad boasts “great windows and a turret!”  Interest piqued, I added the address to my To-Stalk List and headed right on out there this past weekend.

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Finally watching Waxwork last night did little to turn me into a horror fan.  In fact, I have to say the movie was pretty darn terrible (though star Zach Galligan sure is a cutie!).  The premise?  A morose old man named David Lincoln (David Warner) attempts to set off the “voodoo end of the world” by bringing eighteen of the most evil people who ever lived back to life.  How does he do this, you ask?  By creating wax effigies of each person and feeding them the souls of the various patrons who visit the waxwork he has built inside of his private home in the middle of suburbia.  And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for two meddling high schoolers, Mark (Galligan) and Sarah (Deborah Foreman), who thwart his plan.  Like I said, Waxwork isn’t good.

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The Waxwork House (18 of 20)

But Owen was right – the house is fabulous . . . and fabulously creepy!

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The Waxwork House (1 of 1)

Though burned to the ground by Mark and Sarah at the end of Waxwork, in real life the pad still stands proudly at 255 South Rossmore Avenue.  (In actuality, a miniature was used in the filming of the fire scene.)

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The Waxwork House (17 of 20)

While it looks much the same as it did onscreen in 1988, sadly views of it from the street are largely eclipsed by a massive hedge that now lines the front of the property.

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The Waxwork House (1 of 1)

Only the exterior of the residence appeared in Waxwork.  The interior of Lincoln’s eerie home was just a set, as evidenced by the double doors that opened from the living room into his onsite wax museum.

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Originally built in 1924 for L. Milton Wolf, in real life the dwelling boasts 7 bedrooms (!), 3 baths, 3,878 square feet of living space, a pool, a detached garage with what looks to be an upstairs in-law unit, and a 0.43-acre plot of land.

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The Waxwork House (4 of 20)

The house is somewhat historically significant, too!  As Owen informed me, its longtime owner Loretta Lindholm was responsible for the installation of the many ornamental lights that now dot the streets of Hancock Park.  For her efforts, she received a Los Angeles City Council Commendation!

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The Waxwork House (3 of 20)

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: The Waxwork house from Waxwork is located at 255 South Rossmore Avenue in Hancock Park.

The YWCA Hollywood Studio Club from “Dexter”

Hollywood Studio Club from Dexter (7 of 11)

Aside from Sex and the City’s, I don’t think there’s ever been a television finale that I loved. Dexter’s, in my opinion, was the absolute worst.  But I was thoroughly mesmerized by the location chosen to portray Rendall Psychiatric Hospital, the ultra creepy abandoned lair of the Brain Surgeon Killer, Oliver Saxon (Darri Ingolfsson), in the series’ last three episodes.  The structure, with its dark, looming presence, dramatic arched windows and iron balconies, was striking onscreen.  Thanks to Seeing Stars, I learned that filming had taken place at the historic YWCA Hollywood Studio Club and ran right out to stalk it shortly after the Dexter finale aired in November 2013.  While I had every intention of blogging about the site the following October, somehow I never got around to it.  So here goes!

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The Hollywood Studio Club was initially founded in 1916 by a small group of aspiring actresses who regularly gathered at the Hollywood Branch Library to rehearse plays.  A friendly librarian named Eleanor Jones got the ball rolling on finding the ladies a more suitable venue to perfect their craft, securing a nearby hall with the help of the Young Women’s Christian Association.  At the time, most of the club members lived alone in less-than-adequate housing, so in 1919 Eleanor and the YWCA spearheaded a campaign to establish a safe, clean, affordable and chaperoned residence for the girls, as well as other young Hollywood hopefuls from all walks of the entertainment industry, to reside in upon moving to town.  The group found what they were looking for in a large columned Colonial-style pad at 6129 Carlos Avenue in the heart of Tinseltown.  Though it no longer stands, you can see what it looked like here.  Cecil B. DeMille and Mary Pickford helped provide funding and furnishings.   With space for only twenty residents, it was not long before the place was bursting at the seams and a larger facility was needed.  Numerous show business heavyweights helped raise money for the project, including Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson and Jackie Coogan, with the YWCA picking up the rest of the tab.  Julia Morgan was commissioned to design the new site and construction was completed in 1926.

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Hollywood Studio Club from Dexter (5 of 11)

The picturesque three-story Mediterranean Revival-style property featured housing for 88 women, as well as an auditorium, a kitchen that offered two daily meals (Laugh-In’s Jo Anne Worley, a one-time resident, claims the coffee cake served on Sundays was the best she’d ever had), a rehearsal hall, a dining room, a loggia, a library, a gym, a spacious living room, beamed ceilings, multiple fireplaces, 24-hour phone service, and a grassy central courtyard.  By all accounts it was an idyllic place to live.  As character actress Virginia Sale, who moved into the club in 1927, recounted to the Los Angeles Times in 1975, “It was the most beautiful place I had ever seen.  And it was like a real home.  You knew that the minute you walked in.”  Often referred to as a “sorority,” the YWCA Hollywood Studio Club also offered onsite drama, singing, dancing, design, exercise, and writing classes and regularly hosted special events, such as dances, plays and fashion shows.  You can see some photos of the place from its early days here.

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Hollywood Studio Club from Dexter (6 of 11)

Countless luminaries called the place home over the years including Donna Reed, Kim Novak, Rita Moreno, author Ayn Rand, Barbara Eden, Sharon Tate, clothing designer Georgia Bullock, Maureen O’Sullivan, ZaSu Pitts, Ann B. Davis, Sally Struthers, and Miss Marilyn Monroe, who in June 1948 moved into Room 307 with actress Clarice Evans.  Monroe later occupied Room 334, which was a single.  You can see a picture of a check the starlet wrote with the Studio Club listed as her address here.  It was during her residency that she posed for those infamous nude photographs.  According to Wikipedia, the September 1996 issue of Saturday Night magazine quoted Marilyn as once saying  “Funny how shocked people in Hollywood were when they learned I’d posed in the nude.  At one time I’d always said no when photographers asked me.  But you’ll do it when you get hungry enough.  It was at a time when I didn’t seem to have much future.  I had no job and no money for the rent.  I was living in the Hollywood Studio Club for Girls.  I told them I’d get the rent somehow.  So I phoned up Tom Kelley, and he took these two color shots—one sitting up, the other lying down . . . I earned the fifty dollars that I needed.”  The rest, as they say, is history.

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Hollywood Studio Club from Dexter (11 of 11)

Not all residents found fame and fortune, though.  As Virginia Sale also told the Los Angeles Times in 1975, “One woman, older than the rest of us, was murdered in front of the club by a boyfriend.  He was an ex-serviceman or something like that.  And he then killed himself.”  I tried to find some further verification of the story, but came up empty, so I am not sure if it is true or not.  Either way, it only adds to the place’s intrigue.  In all, more than 10,000 girls called the YWCA Hollywood Studio Club home before it shut its doors in 1975, after falling victim to both hard financial times and a change in the fire code that would have required a whopping $60,000 worth of upgrades.  The fire improvements were eventually made following the shuttering and the site subsequently operated as a YWCA Job Corps training center for a time.  Today, the building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Historic-Cultural Monument, is utilized as a Workforce/Youth Development center/Digital Learning Academy – and a filming location.  You can check out some current photos of its interior here.

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Hollywood Studio Club from Dexter (3 of 11)

The YWCA Hollywood Studio Club first appeared as Rendall Psychiatric Hospital in the Season 8 episode of Dexter titled “Goodbye Miami,” in the scene in which the deranged Saxon shows his mother, Dr. Evelyn Vogel (Charlotte Rampling), where he kills all of his victims and removes portions of their brains.  Shudder!  The abandoned former mental asylum is said to be located at 1215 West Clarendon Avenue in Allapattah, Florida on the series, but its actual address is 1215 Lodi Place in Hollywood.

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Hollywood Studio Club from Dexter (1 of 11)

The building popped up in the next two episodes of Dexter, as well, titled, respectively, “Monkey in a Box” . . .

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. . . and “Remember the Monsters?”  It is in the latter, which served as the show’s horrific finale, that Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter) is shot, setting off a series of seriously depressing events.

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The interior of the YWCA Hollywood Studio Club was also utilized on Dexter.

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But I am fairly certain that Saxon’s kill room, supposedly located inside Rendall Psychiatric Hospital, was nothing more than a studio-built set.

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Dexter is hardly the only production to have been lensed on the premises.  Thanks to fellow stalker Paul I learned that the club masked as Smith’s Grove Sanitarium in a dream sequence in the 1981 horror film Halloween II.

In the Season 2 episode of Visiting . . . with Huell Howser titled “Hollywood Ladies,” which aired in 1994, Huell tours the Hollywood Studio Club with four women who lived there during the 1940s and have remained friends ever since.

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I highly recommend giving the episode a watch (which you can do here).  Not only do the woman share fascinating and heartwarming tales of their time at the club and the lifelong friendships it cultivated, but viewers are given great glimpses of the property, including its central courtyard . . .

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. . . and dining room and auditorium.

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In the Season 1 episode of Agent Carter titled “The Iron Ceiling,” which aired in 2015, the YWCA Hollywood Studio Club portrayed the Red Room Academy, supposedly located in Russia.

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The site, playing itself, is where Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins) and the rest of Howard Hughes’ (Warren Beatty) contract starlets take singing and dancing lessons in 2016’s Rules Don’t Apply (which I only scanned through to make the screen captures below, but is now on my list to watch as it looks absolutely darling – and stars Megan Hilty, whom I adore!).  Both the exterior . . .

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. . . and interior of the club are featured in the movie.

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The kitchen also appears briefly as the kitchen of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, where Hughes has 350 gallons of Baskin-Robbins banana nut ice cream delivered after learning the flavor is being discontinued.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: The YWCA Hollywood Studio Club, aka Rendall Psychiatric Hospital from Dexter, is located at 1215 Lodi Place in Hollywood.

Chabelita Tacos from “Truth or Dare”

Chabelita Tacos from Truth or Dare (14 of 19)

Roadside taco stands don’t usually conjure up images of the macabre.  Today’s locale is no different.  In fact, the eatery – Chabelita Tacos – is a bright and colorful addition to the Harvard Heights skyline.  But since it did appear in a memorable scene in the 2018 horror flick Truth or Dare, I thought it was only appropriate to include it in my Haunted Hollywood postings.

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Chabelita Tacos pops up toward the end of Truth or Dare, in the scene in which Markie Cameron (Violett Beane) receives a truth challenge from her father, Roy Cameron (Brady Smith), via an old iPhone video while she is sitting alone at a desolate outdoor restaurant.

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Thanks to a street sign reading “Western” visible in the background of the segment, pinpointing the eatery was a snap.  I had already tracked down the pad where Markie lived with her friends Olivia Barron (Lucy Hale) and Penelope Amari (Sophia Ali) in the movie to 2233 West 21st Street and figured the restaurant was likely nearby.  So I opened up Google maps to where Western runs through that area and found Chabelita Tacos almost immediately, literally right around the corner from the house!

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I dragged the Grim Cheaper out to stalk it a few days later.

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While signage in the windows proclaims that the restaurant serves the “Best Mexican Food in L.A.” (a sentiment Chowhounders wholeheartedly back up, though Yelpers do not), we had already eaten when we arrived on the premises, so we did not get to sample any of the fare.

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Though technically a walk-up taco stand . . .

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. . . the place has quite a bit of interior seating.

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Surprisingly, aside from the fact that it has been around since at least 1992, I could not find much information about the history of Chabelita Tacos posted anywhere online – nor was I able to figure out what “Chabelita” translates to in English.

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Chabelita Tacos from Truth or Dare (7 of 19)

In the Truth or Dare scene, Markie is seated outside of Chabelita Tacos at one of the metal tables positioned along West 20th Street . . .

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. . . on the same bench that I am sitting on in the photo below (though I am facing the opposite direction).  How cool is it that the image of the divided food plate visible on the wall behind Markie in the bottom screen capture above is still painted on Chabelita’s wall?!

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The area used is pictured below, though from a different vantage point than what was shown onscreen.

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While the segment shot on the premises was brief, it was seriously creepy thanks to the iPhone video of Roy, whose face became warped when the demon Calax took over his body.

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Chabelita Tacos was also featured in the opening scene of the 2003 comedy National Security as the spot where Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) and Charlie Reed (Timothy Busfield) grab a late night bite.

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Stalk It: Chabelita Tacos, from Truth or Dare, is located at 2001 South Western Avenue in Harvard HeightsOlivia, Markie and Penelope’s house from the movie is right around the corner at 2233 West 21st Street.

Anthony’s House from Twilight Zone: The Movie”

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Perhaps no film in the history of filmdom has been as mired in controversy as Twilight Zone: The Movie.  Bring up the 1983 thriller to anyone and talk will likely turn to the death of three of its actors in a harrowing and, what has been argued, completely avoidable accident.  On July 23rd, 1982 at Indian Dunes movie ranch in Valencia, while lensing the segment titled “Time Out,” star Vic Morrow carried two young children, Renee Chen and Myca Dinh Le, through a pond in a simulated Vietnam War battle.  A helicopter flying overhead during the shoot happened to get hit by one of the explosive special effects, causing it to crash to the ground, crushing Chen to death and decapitating Morrow and Le in the process.  Director John Landis and four other crew members were brought up on manslaughter charges following the disaster, but all were found not guilty at the end of the nearly ten-month trial.  The film has been shrouded in darkness ever since, though.  Considering my penchant for the macabre, surprisingly, up until just recently I had never watched Twilight Zone: The Movie or done any stalking of it.  That all changed when I came across a photo of the sprawling Victorian where Anthony (Jeremy Licht) lived in the “It’s a Good Life” portion of the film on the Then & Now Movie Locations website earlier this summer.  Fascinated with the massive structure, I added it to my To-Stalk List and headed right on out to see it in person shortly thereafter.

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The immense Queen Anne-style pad was originally built in 1887 by prominent San Francisco architect Joseph Cather Newsom, who also gave us the Walker House in San Dimas, the Sessions House in Echo Park, and the Carson Mansion in Eureka.

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Amazingly, per the Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources, the dwelling was initially located in Pacoima, but was moved – literally picked up and relocated – to its current home at 17410 Mayerling Street in Granada Hills in the 1970s.

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The picturesque estate currently boasts 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 3,842 square feet of living space, 11-foot ceilings, stained glass windows, hardwood flooring, 2 fireplaces, wainscoting, original moldings, beveled glass mirrors, a clawfoot tub (be still my heart!), an updated kitchen with granite counters and stainless steel appliances, a formal dining room, a den, pull-chain toilets (which seriously creep me out for unknown reasons), a glass-ceilinged conservatory, a 2-car garage, a wraparound porch, a vineyard, and a detached 1-bedroom, 1-bath guesthouse with a kitchen and a private yard.

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The property last sold in 2015 for $849,000, which seems abnormally low to me considering the sheer size of the house, not to mention the land.

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I mean, look at that backyard!  It’s huge.

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You can check out some MLS photos of the pad from the time it was on the market here.

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Though undeniably beautiful, it is not hard to see how the place wound up being cast in a horror/sci-fi film like Twilight Zone: The Movie.

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There is just something about old Victorians that renders them downright spooky (read: the Smith Estate).

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The “It’s a Good Life” chapter of Twilight Zone: The Movie centers around a misunderstood and rather disturbed young boy named Anthony who can create things with his mind.  As such, he conjures up a Victorian house based upon one featured in the cartoon Mouse Wreckers.  While segments of the actual 1948 cartoon classic were utilized in the film, the opening scene was altered to show a dwelling matching the Granada Hills pad.

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The true imagery featured at the beginning of Mouse Wreckers is pictured below.

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Anthony’s residential creation is a true house of horrors in which any family member who disagrees with him or tries to admonish him meets an unpleasant fate, like Ethel (Nancy Cartwright, aka the voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons) who gets banished to an evil cartoon world where she is terrorized by animated monsters after an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the home.

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Remarkably, the dwelling still looks almost exactly the same today as it did onscreen 35 years ago, excluding a change in paint color and the addition of the detached guest house on the property’s east side.

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A close-up view of the guest house is pictured below.

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The area around the residence has changed considerably in the ensuing years, as you can see in the Google Street View image as compared to the screen capture below.  Though still rather rural in nature, the 17400 block of Mayerling Street has been built up a bit since Twilight Zone: The Movie was shot.

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Only the exterior of the property was used in “It’s a Good Life.”

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The inside of Anthony’s house, which bears no resemblance whatsoever to the home’s real life interior, was nothing more than a soundstage-built set at Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank.  Though the front doors were modeled after those of the actual dwelling . . .

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. . . the stairs of the Mayerling pad are situated completely differently than those of its onscreen counterpart, as you can see in the screen captures below as compared to the MLS photo above.

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The onscreen living room, which was designed to have a cartoonish feel, also looks nothing like the home’s actual living room.

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P.S. Big Bang Theory fans, be sure to check out this great LAist article about the show’s locales that I was recently interviewed for.

Big THANK YOU to the Then & Now Movie Locations website for finding this location!  Smile

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Anthony’s house from Twilight Zone: The Movie is located at 17410 Mayerling Street in Granada Hills.

The “Lights Out” House

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Lights Out Cast Accidentally Cursed the House Where they Filmed.”  So blared a headline from an Entertainment Weekly article about the 2016 horror film.  As you can imagine, the words had me drooling.  I first learned about the movie back in January from fellow stalker “sparklesnow” who left a comment on one of my Instagram photos asking for some help in tracking down the large Tudor-style estate where virtually all filming took place.  When I popped “Lights Out” and “house” in to a Google search, the EW column was the first item kicked back.  In it, actor Alexander DiPersia was quoted as saying, “A week after we finished shooting the basement scene [which] is very terrifying, I got a call from friends saying, ‘Turn on the news.’  And the house was on fire, like right after we finished shooting.  From the basement, smoke was emanating up.  We cursed that place.”  A locale that was not only featured in a horror flick, but that also got vexed by the production?  Count me in!  I couldn’t imagine a place more perfectly suited to my Haunted Hollywood postings.  So I set right out to track it down.

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Thankfully, the search was not very hard.  Being that Lights Out was released in July 2016, I knew that filming had to have taken place in 2015.  So I scoured the internet for reports of any fires at L.A.-area residences that year and came across this Los Angeles Daily News article detailing a blaze that struck a three-story home located at 140 South Avenue 59 in Highland Park on November 7th.  One look at Street View images of the dwelling in comparison to the pad shown in the movie’s trailer confirmed it was the right spot.  Fortunately, the inferno, which was put out within 43 minutes of the fire department’s arrival, does not appear to have caused much damage to the locale because, as you can see below, the Lights Out house is currently standing and seemingly intact.

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In real life, the property is known as the Finis E. Yoakum House, named for the doctor-turned-faith-healer who commissioned it.  Following a serious buggy accident in Denver in 1894, Yoakum migrated to Los Angeles, hoping the city’s temperate climate would aid in his recovery from his many injuries.  A few months after arriving in La La Land, he attended a Christian Alliance prayer meeting, where he was blessed by a priest and almost immediately healed.  The experience inspired Yoakum to assist others who were suffering.  In 1900, he opened up his Queen Anne-style residence at 6026 Echo Street in Highland Park to those in need, providing shelter, clothing and food for free.  In return, the residents performed charitable acts and helped around the property, which Yoakum dubbed the Pisgah Home, named for the mountain from which Moses first spotted the promised land.  It was not long before Finis’ crusade took on momentum, transforming into a religion that became known as the Pisgah Home Movement.

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In short time, more space was needed to house Pisgah Home’s growing number of residents.  Several cottages were added to the Echo Street property and those that couldn’t fit in the ancillary structures would sleep in tents in the yard.  Yoakum and his wife even had to move into a tent themselves at one point so that their residence could be utilized for those in need.  In 1915, Pisgah Home members constructed a new, much larger Tudor-style dwelling for Yoakum and his family just up the road at 140 South Avenue 59.

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The doctor only lived in the lavish structure for five years before passing away in 1920.  After his death, the various properties making up Pisgah Home, most of which still stand today, were divided up amongst his family and the Movement.  The Finis E. Yoakum house, which is a Los Angeles Historic Cultural-Monument, was subsequently sold and today is a privately-owned residence.

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The 19-room estate, which looks much the same today as it did when it was originally built, features 8 bedrooms, 5 baths, 6,140 square feet of living space, a finished basement, several fireplaces, a 0.41-acre plot of land, a large swimming pool, and a detached 2-car garage.

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Sadly, not much of it can be seen from the street.

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In Lights Out, the Finis E. Yoakum House served as the residence of Sophie (Maria Bello) and Martin (Gabriel Bateman).  I watched the movie shortly before writing this post and, let me tell you, it is absolutely terrifying – in the best way possible.  I mean, the trailer alone was enough to make me want to sleep with the lights on for at least a week.

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The sprawling property was used extensively throughout the flick.

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Even the real life interior (which is exquisite!) was utilized in the filming.

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Though undeniably beautiful (that woodwork and detailing!), I can see why the house was chosen for the movie.  It definitely has a looming quality to it.  Those stairs and doors just look like they give good creak!

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As Alexander DiPersia mentioned in the EW article, Lights Out’s basement scene was particularly harrowing.  According to IMDB, the mannequins featured in the segment were not props, but actually belong to the Yoakum House owners, who store them in the cellar!  Shudder!  Whether or not the home was actually cursed during the production, causing the fire that later broke out there, I’ll never know, but one thing’s for sure – I wouldn’t ever want to set foot in that basement to find out!

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The Yoakum House is actually a frequent horror film star.  In the 2014 thriller Ouija, the property was featured as the home of Debbie Galardi (Shelley Hennig), though only interiors were used.

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A residence just a few doors down at 5915 Echo Street was utilized for all exterior shots.

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Well, almost all exterior shots.  The Yoakum House’s pool did make an appearance in the film.

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The dwelling also popped up in interior scenes in Ouija’s 2016 sequel, Ouija: Origin of Evil.

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In non-horror-movie-related news, the Yoakum House portrayed the bed and breakfast owned by Heaton (Kevin Pollak) and Rita Upshaw (Illeana Douglas) in the 2013 dramedy Chez Upshaw.  Both the exterior . . .

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. . . and interior were utilized in the shoot.

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Stalk It: The Finis E. Yoakum House, aka Sophie and Martin’s residence from Lights Out, is located at 140 South Avenue 59 in Highland Park.

The Filming Locations of “Scream 3”

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As promised on Friday, today’s post is dedicated to the filming locations of Scream 3.  Though the third installment is not my favorite of the franchise, I love anything and everything having to do with Scream and figured what better way to celebrate Haunted Hollywood month than by putting together a massive two-part article detailing all of the locations featured in both the first and second sequels.  (In case you missed my post on Scream 2 locations, you can read it here.)

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1. 101 Freeway (West Shoreline Drive, north of West Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach) – In Scream 3’s opening segment, Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) receives his first Ghostface phone call while sitting in traffic, thereby setting off the events of the movie.  Though he is said to be stuck on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood, filming actually took place on Shoreline Drive in Long Beach, a popular section of road that is often utilized to mask as a thoroughfare onscreen.  A nearby stretch of Shoreline was the site of the memorable freeway scene in the 1995 comedy Clueless.  After pushing his way through the stopped cars, Cotton is next shown on the actual 101 Freeway– racing down the southbound Vine Street exit, to be exact, before making a right onto Vine, sailing past the Capital Records Building, and darting down Hollywood Boulevard.

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2. Harper House (1336 North Harper Avenue, West Hollywood) – Ghostface terrorizes and eventually kills both Cotton and his girlfriend, Christine (Kelly Rutherford), at Cotton’s Spanish Baroque-style West Hollywood apartment complex, Harper House.  The 1929 property, designed by Leland Bryant, originally provided housing for show business and studio professionals and has long been a location manager favorite.  Besides Scream 3, the building also popped up in Cop, The Big Picture, The Last Boy Scout, and The Big Fix.  The four-story, 21-unit, L-shaped structure, as well as the entire block that it is located on, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Though the interior of an actual Harper House unit was initially utilized in the filming of Scream 3, Cotton’s death scene was later rewritten and reshot.  Producers were not able to return to the complex for the reshoot, so an exact replica of the original apartment used was built on a soundstage for the segment.  (You can read a more thorough post on this location here.)

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3. Sidney’s House (21914 Goldstone Road, Topanga) – Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Campbell) remote cabin in Scream 3 is just that – remote.  The rustic pad sits on a forty-acre parcel of land located at the end of a long private road in Topanga.  Known as Windwalk Ranch, the sprawling property is comprised of a horse corral, a barn, a ranch house, three dwellings, and a water tank.  Unfortunately, none of it is visible to the public.  (I wrote a more thorough post on this location here.)

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4. Gale’s “Faces of Journalism” Lecture (Moore Hall, Moore 100, UCLA, 457 Portola Plaza, Westwood) – Cast and crew returned to UCLA to film a sequence for Scream 3.  It is in Moore 100, a large wood-paneled lecture hall, that Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) addresses a group of young reporters about the cut-throat nature of the business as part of the F.W. Bestor “Faces of Journalism” Lecture Series.  As you can see in my photo, the space is currently undergoing renovations.

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Immediately following her speech, Gale learns of Cotton’s shocking murder from Detective Mark Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) while in the hallway just outside of Moore 100.

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5. CBS Studio Center (4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City) – CBS Studio Center pulled double duty in Scream 3.  Not only did the production film on the premises, utilizing numerous soundstages and exteriors, but the property also portrayed the fictional Sunrise Studios, where the movie-within-the-movie, Stab 3, was being shot.  Originally established as Mack Sennett Studios in 1928, the 38-acre site was renamed CBS Studio Center in 1963 when the CBS Television Network became the lot’s largest tenant.  The network purchased the property four years later and, though there have been several name and partnership changes since, it is still owned by CBS today.  Countless hits have been lensed on the premises including Gilligan’s Island, Big Brother, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Gunsmoke, The Bob Newhart Show, My Three Sons, Roseanne, Falcon Crest, and Seinfeld.  Though the lot does not offer tours, CBS’s main gate on Radford Avenue, which was utilized in a scene in Scream 3 and was also where Jimmy Hughes (Mike O’Malley) worked as a studio security guard on the television series Yes, Dear, is visible from the road.

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6. Le Pain Quotidien (8607 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood) – Gale and Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) meet for an off-the-record chat about the recent murders – as well as their failed romance – on the large wraparound porch of former West Hollywood eatery Replay Café.  The family-run Italian-style restaurant, situated next door to the Replay vintage clothing store, became an outpost of Le Pain Quotidien in 2002. Despite the change, the café and its porch still look very much the same today as they did onscreen in Scream 3.

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7. Runyon Ranch (3050 Runyon Canyon Road, Hollywood Hills West) – After Roman Bridger (Scott Foley) is taken to the police station to be questioned about the murder of Stab 3 actress Sarah Darling (Jenny McCarthy), the remaining cast members, along with Dewey and Gale, gather at the hilltop home of Jennifer Jolie (Parker Posey).  Her rustic, barn-like residence is known as Runyon Ranch in real life.  Located on a private road inside of Runyon Canyon Park, the site cannot be reached via car, but is accessible to pedestrians via a short five-minute walk.  Both the interior and the exterior of Runyon Ranch were utilized in Scream 3.  Though the dwelling was eventually blown up and destroyed in the film, a ¼-scale model was built for the filming of that scene.  In real life, the property remains intact and is extremely recognizable from its onscreen appearance.  Even Dewey’s airstream trailer is still on the premises!  Runyon Ranch has been featured in countless productions over the years, most notably as the spot where David Silver (Brian Austin Green) lived during Season 7 of Beverly Hills, 90210.  The locale has also been featured in It’s My Party, Crazy in Alabama, and Hollywood Homicide.  (You can read my 2011 post on Runyon Ranch here.)

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8. North Hollywood Police Station (11480 Tiara Street, North Hollywood) – Though Scream 2 utilized a police station set at the now defunct Lindsay Studios (love the name!) in Valencia, Scream 3 made use of an actual LAPD office.  Detective Kincaid investigates the murders – and delves deep into Sidney’s past – while at the former North Hollywood Police Station, which was originally established in 1957.  The North Hollywood Division moved to a new, much larger and modernized facility located less than a mile away at 11640 Burbank Boulevard in May 1997.  After that time, the Tiara Street site sat vacant, which made it the perfect spot to shoot the police station scenes for Scream 3.  Though there were once plans to turn the property into a senior citizen center, they never came to fruition and the former station was razed in the mid-2000s.  The land where it once stood now comprises Tiara Street Park.  The original North Hollywood Police Station also appeared in the pilot episode of Adam-12.

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9. American Cement Building (2404 Wilshire Boulevard, Westlake) – One of Scream 3’s more memorable locations, the American Cement Building in Westlake served as the office of horror movie producer John Milton (Lance Henriksen).  When Wes Craven scouted the site and noticed that it offered stunning views of MacArthur Park’s lake, he mentioned that installing a diving board just outside of Milton’s window would add a whimsical touch.  The production team made it happen and the result is an understated, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it bit of humor.  The architecturally stunning building was originally constructed as the headquarters for the American Cement Company in 1964.  Designed by the Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall architecture firm, the dramatic 13-story structure was manufactured out of reinforced concrete and boasts striking latticework on its north and south sides.  The location underwent a multi-million-dollar renovation in 2002, during which the office spaces were transformed into 71 live/work lofts.  Scream 3 is hardly the first production to make use of the site.  The American Cement Building has also appeared in Kill Bill: Vol. 1, the 2015 Entourage movie, Pharrell Williams’ “Come Get It Bae” music video, and Get Him to the Greek.  (You can check out my post on the American Cement Building here.)

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10. Canfield-Moreno Estate (1923 Micheltorena Street, Silver Lake) – A 22,000-square-foot Italianate-style villa that has long been the subject of Hollywood lore masqueraded as John Milton’s sprawling manse, where Scream 3’s gory climax took place.  Known as the Canfield-Moreno Estate, as well as The Paramour Mansion and The Crestmont, the massive property was designed by Robert D. Farquhar in 1923 for silent film star Antonio Moreno and his wife, oil heiress Daisy Canfield Danziger.  When the couple decided to separate in 1928, they deeded the 22-room property to the Chloe P. Canfield Memorial Home, a finishing school for girls that was established by Daisy and her sisters.  Just a few years later, the heiress tragically lost control of her car while driving on Mulholland Drive, plunged off a 300-foot cliff, and died instantly.  Her ghost is said to haunt her former residence to this day.  The Canfield Memorial Home was dissolved in the 1950s and the estate later became a boarding house for troubled girls.  After being damaged in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, the site was left abandoned for more than a decade.  It was finally purchased in 1998 by a developer who set about returning the once-grand home to its original glory.  It has since become an onscreen regular, appearing in such productions as Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Alias, Monk, Britney Spears’ “My Prerogative” music video, and Brothers & Sisters.  It is inside the colorful, Moroccan-style residence that Sidney finally puts an end to the killings that have plagued her since high school.  That is until Scream 4, which was shot in Michigan, came along in 2011 and re-opened the mystery, proving Randy’s rule from the second movie correct – “Never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead.”  (You can read a more in-depth post on the property here.)  Big THANK YOU to Mike, from MovieShotsLA, for the photograph below.

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Well, that’s it!  The complete list of locations featured in Scream 3. If you missed Friday’s post on the L.A. locales from Scream 2, be sure to check it out here.  I hope you all enjoyed reading these two articles as much I enjoyed putting them together!

Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Jeff’s House from “Spellbinder”

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My Haunted Hollywood backlog is getting ridiculous!  Currently, I have more than 50 already-stalked spooky locations compiled – and only about 20 or so days each year to blog about them.  Regardless, I keep compiling more – and I love every minute of it!  Why can’t all year be Halloween?  Last October, fellow stalker Chas, of the It’s Filmed There website, contributed to my ever-growing list by texting to let me know about a horror movie house he thought I might be interested in – the residence where Jeff Mills (Tim Daly) lived in 1988’s Spellbinder.  I had never seen the film before, or even heard of it actually, but was fascinated by the fact that the home was located on Westwanda Drive in Beverly Hills, the very same street where Yvette Vickers lived and was found dead in 2011, after months of lying dead on her floor.  (I blogged about that property in October 2014.)  I ran right out to stalk the Spellbinder pad and, though I was not able to include it in last year’s Haunted Hollywood postings, wanted to make sure to fit it in this year.

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Sadly, as I discovered upon arriving, the house is obscured by a large fence and very little of it can be seen from the road.

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Not much of the residence is visible from the other side of the property, either.

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That was not the case back in ‘88 when Spellbinder was filmed, though.  As you can below, at the time, the dwelling was only surrounded by a small white picket fence.

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What can be seen today, though, matches what appeared onscreen.

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In real life, the Cape Cod-style residence, which was built in 1954, boasts 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 1,940 square feet of living space.

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I am fairly certain that the interior of Jeff’s home was a set – especially being that much of it was destroyed at the hands of the otherworldly friends of Jeff’s new girlfriend, Miranda Reed (Kelly Preston), in the film.

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I was able to dig up one interior photograph of the residence from an old MLS listing and in it you can see that the set fireplace from Spellbinder very closely resembles that of the actual house, though it is situated differently.  I am guessing that most of the set was modeled after the home’s real life interior.

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Big THANK YOU to Chas, from the It’s Filmed There website, for telling me about this location.  You can check out his page on Spellbinder’s other filming locations here.

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: Jeff’s house from Spellbinder is located at 9912 Westwanda Drive in Beverly CrestYvette Vickers’ former home was located just up the street at 10021 Westwanda Drive, though it has been demolished.

“The Exorcist” House and Stairs

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I’ve ventured down a deep, dark rabbit hole today, friends.  I should back up and explain from the beginning.  Last night, the Grim Cheaper and I watched The Exorcist for the first time.  I had come across images of the stately brick house and adjacent towering staircase featured in the iconic 1973 horror flick while researching filming locations in the D.C.-area prior to our September trip and found them to be particularly haunting.  Despite the fact that I had never seen The Exorcist and knew little about it other than it was considered one of the scariest movies of its day (with theatregoers purportedly fainting during viewings), I jotted down the addresses and moved them to the very top of my D.C. To-Stalk List.  Both sites proved fabulously creepy in person.  I felt I couldn’t very well write about them without a screening of the flick, though, so last night the GC and I sat down to watch.  I was shocked at how much the movie withstood the test of time.  I was scared throughout (though I did find the demonic ramblings hysterical and I’m pretty sure they were meant to be obscene and shocking in their day).  When I sat down to write this post, I discovered that the film was actually based upon a real life case and starting doing research.  And wow, did I get sucked in!  I highly suggest you do not open that Pandora’s box unless you have a lot of time on your hands because it. is. fascinating.

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I’ll give you the Reader’s Digest version here.  The Exorcist was originally a book – a best-seller, actually, written by William Peter Blatty.  William was initially inspired to pen the novel while attending Georgetown University in 1949, when a professor mentioned the supposed real life exorcism of a 14-year-old Maryland boy that had recently taken place.  The case of the possessed youngster, which was chronicled in countless newspapers, was shrouded in mystery and the story largely twisted by various reporters.  The tale, which detailed violently shaking beds, rashes that spelled out demonic messages, and outbursts of profanity laced with Latin, stuck with Blatty for two decades and he finally began to put pen to paper in 1969.  The book became an immediate sensation when it hit shelves in 1971 and drew renewed attention to the real life exorcism.  The movie that followed two years later, which Blatty wrote the screenplay to, only exacerbated the public’s fascination with the case and rumor and gossip about it spread.  The actual story, which was thoroughly investigated by historian Mark Opsasnick and finally revealed in a five-part article in 1999, is much less paranormal.  You can read it here.  Though Opsasnick does not mention the boy’s real name in his piece, instead using the alias Roland Doe, today that name is widely published all over the internet.  The “real” Exorcist child is Ronald Edwin Hunkeler, who lived at 3807 40th Avenue in Cottage City (that’s his childhood home pictured below).  You can see a photograph of a teen Hunkeler here.  And you can read another in-depth recap of the case, which further debunks many of the rumors, here.

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While writing his novel, Blatty made contact with Father Bowdern, the priest who performed Hunkeler’s exorcism.  Bowdern told him of a diary that was written by Father Bishop, an attending priest, which chronicled the entire process.  The novelist, of course, asked to see the diary, but Bowdern refused to hand it over.  To assure the confidentiality of those involved, Blatty decided to change his story’s lead character from a teen boy to a teen girl.  He did eventually get his hands on the diary and much of what he read figured into the book.  The movie closely follows the story of the book and centers around famous actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) and her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair), who are temporarily living in a handsome brick-clad pad in Georgetown while Chris shoots a movie nearby.  Though their surroundings are gorgeous, it is not long before things take a sinister turn and Regan begins to show signs of demonic possession.

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The MacNeil’s Georgetown dwelling is featured extensively throughout The Exorcist.

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Looking below, you may notice that the actual residence differs quite a bit from what appeared onscreen.  For the shoot, an entire fake wing was built on the eastern side of the house.  This was done so that Regan’s bedroom window would be close to the stairs situated next to the property, which accommodated for several scenes that were pertinent to the film (I don’t want to give away any spoilers, so I won’t say more).  A fake mansard roof was also added to the structure to give the appearance that the home had an attic – something else that was necessary to the plotline.

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A fence has also since been added to the perimeter of the property, obscuring most of the ground floor from view.  This was apparently done to ward off stalkers, who still rampantly visit the residence, more than four decades after the film was made!

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Said fence was closed when I stalked The Exorcist home, but I did find some Google Street View imagery in which it was open.  As you can see below, despite the missing wing and mansard roof, the house is still very recognizable from its time onscreen.

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Only the exterior of the property appeared in The Exorcist.  Interiors were part of a vast set constructed at New York’s now defunct Camera Mart studios.

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In real life, the dwelling, which was built in 1950, consists of 3 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and 2,808 square feet living space.  The pad sits on a 0.11-acre plot of land that overlooks the Potomac River and the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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I find it fascinating that virtually all of the photos I took of the place have some sort of an orb reflection in them!

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I mean, come on!  Can things get any more creepy?

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The infamous stairs, which figured so prominently in the story, are located just east of and adjacent to the house.

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And let me tell you, they are harrowingly steep!

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According to a 2013 USA Today article, the stairs are technically known as the “Hitchcock Steps,” named in honor of the prolific suspense director, but ever since the movie’s 1973 premiere have largely been called the “Exorcist Steps.”

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Though the southern portion of the stairs was also featured in The Exorcist, we did not venture down to see it.  It was over 90 degrees and insanely humid the day we stalked Georgetown and ambling all the way down those steps – and then back up – in that heat did not seem appealing in the slightest.

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In 2013, Blatty and Exorcist director William Friedkin revisited several of the movie’s locations, including the stairs.  You can watch a video clip of their stalk here.

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On an Exorcist side-note – I was shocked to see how much Linda Blair resembles Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) from Stranger Things (which the GC and I are obsessed with, BTW – if you have not yet watched, I cannot more highly recommend doing so!).

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Until next time, Happy Stalking!  Smile

Stalk It: The MacNeil house from The Exorcist is located at 3600 Prospect Street NW in Georgetown.  The stairs that appeared in the movie are located just east of the house and run between Prospect Street NW and M Street NW.