The house from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street is on the market. The long-running horror franchise features the serial killer Freddy Krueger, who hunts down teenagers in their dreams. Although the first few films depicted him as a scarier figure, he eventually grew much more playful, making quips and jokes along with every murder set-piece. The original film was created in 1984 by master of horror Wes Craven.

A hugely important element of the franchise is the house that belongs to Heather Langenkamp's Nancy Thompson. In the film, the house has a classic suburban look that stands out because of its bright red door. Although the house isn't a foregrounded element of the original film, it is also the setting of A Nightmare Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, in which a young man named Jesse Walsh moves in and discovers Nancy's diary. After that, the house became synonymous with Freddy's reign of terror, appearing in nightmares throughout the series, as well as being reimagined as a popsicle stick sculpture by Patricia Arquette's Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and eventually becoming Freddy's official home base in the sixth film, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.

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Per the Los Angeles Times, the house where all the nightmares started is now on the market. The previous owner, interestingly enough, is Lorene Scafaria, who directed the buzzy Jennifer Lopez film Hustlers in 2019. Unfortunately, the door has been painted black since its original appearance, but the exterior still looks much the same, and Elm Street fans who have $3.25 million to burn can put out an offer on the house before bids close on Halloween.

A Nightmare on Elm Street house

The Elm Street house, which is located at 1428 N Genesse Avenue, offers more than just an iconic screen location. It's part of an intensely fascinating neighborhood in the middle of Los Angeles. Even though the quiet, leafy street easily passed for Springwood, Ohio, the house is actually one block away from L.A.'s famous Sunset Boulevard. Plus, just across Sunset is another iconic filming location: The pair of houses where Jamie Lee Curtis babysat Tommy Doyle and Michael Myers committed his murder spree in the original 1978 Halloween.

This is the perfect development for this year's spooky season. A Nightmare on Elm Street is a staple of the horror genre, and there's nothing more likely to begin the plot of one's own scary movie than moving into a new house. Most fans likely don't have millions of dollars lying around, so it will be interesting to see if the house ends up in the hands of a collector, or merely someone looking for prime real estate who will end up with a massive cinematic legacy on their hands more or less by accident.

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Source: LA Times