10 Haunted Houses You Can Visit!
By Viv Smith (SetJetters CMO & CoFounder)
With Halloween right around the corner, SetJetters is excited to gather up a list of our favorite haunted movie houses that you can visit to celebrate the spooky season.
However, when it comes to houses and private properties, SetJetters wants to set the gold standard for respectful SetJetting practices, so please do not trespass onto any private properties or pull any Halloween inspired pranks on property owners!
If you’re the owner of a property that was used as a film set we’d love to hear from you and how we can improve the experience of film tourism for property owners.
So, without further ado, here are our top 10 picks for haunted movie houses!
1. Get Out (2017)
Speaking of setting a gold standard, Get Out is a scarily good film picking up several Oscar nominations and a win for Best Original Screenplay.
Although set in upstate New York, the family home of Chris’ girlfriend was actually filmed in Alabama, at 6892 Heathcroft Lane, Fairhope, AL. (Find the location here on SetJetters)
This house is nestled in a large property and can’t be viewed easily from the street (as seen in the movie), so please don’t drive down the private laneway toward the house or bother the owners.
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Nope, not on Elm Street, sorry!
However the exterior of the house has been kept the same so you can snap a great ShotSync from the street (pictured left). However be respectful of the owner’s privacy and don’t linger.
The property is located in Los Angeles, California at 1419 North Genesee Avenue.
3. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Now this property you can crawl right under it’s skin; the cinematic legacy of Buffalo Bill’s house has been fully embraced by the property’s owner Chris Rowen, allowing fans to book a room and stay a night in the house (and guests even get a complimentary bottle of lotion!)
He also offers tours, special events, and is planning on building the well!
You can find the house at 8 Circle St, Perryopolis, Pennsylvania and right here on SetJetters.
4. The Shining (1980)
The scenes from The Shining have been edited together from multiple locations.
The interior scenes were shot on a soundstage in London that was modeled off The Ahwahnee in Yosemite, and the exterior scenes of the Overlook Hotel were shot at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon (which is part of The Oregon Film Trail).
This is another one of the locations on our list that you can actually stay in, and while the interior won’t look like the movie, the hotel does provide a prop ax for photos!
5. The Ring (2002)
Visiting Cabin #12 from The Ring is one of the more spooky SetJets you can do! It’s located in a field in a private property in Skagit County, Washington north of Seattle at 21729 50th Ave NW (please ask permission before entering).
The cabin was built for the production and left behind on the property. You can go inside and under it (no well!). The inside is gutted out, but the outside looks just like the movie. The hill with the tree on it is there, but the tree was a metal tree designed for filming and removed after production.
There are lots of The Ring locations around the Seattle area which of course you can find on the SetJetters app.
6. Halloween (1978)
Michael Myers’ House is found at 1000 Mission Street, South Pasadena, California and is preserved as a California Historical Landmark.
The house is now a private business and there’s a sign in the window that asks Halloween fans to stay off the porch but photographs can be taken from the parking lot!
There are other Halloween filming locations within walking distance, including the hardware store, the cemetery, the main city strip and the Stroud house where you can pose with fake pumpkins like Jamie Lee Curtis!
Use SetJetters to easily get your ShotSync (pictured left).
7. Poltergeist (1982)
The suburban normalcy of this house ended up spooking every kid in the 80s into thinking their own house was haunted.
You’ll find this average family home at 4254 Roxbury Street, Simi Valley, California (find it here on SetJetters). Similar to the Nightmare on Elm Street, you can easily snap a good ShotSync from the street, but be respectful of the current occupants.
8. Psycho (1960)
Now this house gets around! The house from Psycho isn’t a real house. It’s a shell of a house built for the production in 1959 on the Universal Backlot. Over the years, it’s been dismantled and rebuilt around the studio, and used in other films.
Its first location was on the hill above Singapore Lake which is now the site of the Jaws Attraction. In 1980 it was dismantled, rebuilt and painted pink for its use in the Chevy Chase comedy Modern Problems.
It was then moved to a remote location for the production of Psycho II in 1983 and finally restored and moved again to its current location adjacent to Old Falls Lake (the setting for the swamp scenes in Psycho).
You can visit the Psycho house on a Universal Studios Tour and get the ShotSync with SetJetters.
9. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
SetJet in style by booking a room at the Oakley Court where the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show was filmed.
However, you’ll have to request one of the “mansion suites” as they are the only hotel rooms that are part of the mansion's original structure.
The hotel is found on SetJetters and at Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor Road, Water Oakley, Windsor SL4 5UR, UK.
10. The Conjuring (2013)
Now there’s technically two houses from The Conjuring as the film is based on the real life events that took place in a Rhode Island farm house in 1970, so there’s the real location and the movie set location.
The real life house is found at 1677 Round Top Road Burrillville, Rhode Island, where the Perron family were terrorized by demonic spirits and a witch’s curse. Those events inspired the 2013 movie The Conjuring.
However, the production chose a house in North Carolina for the movie set, located at 405 Canetuck Road, Currie, NC.
While you cannot access the movie set, you can book tours and visit the real farmhouse in Rhode Island. Start with a virtual tour through their TikTok to see what it’s actually like to live in haunted house!
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