The ‘Paranormal Activity’ House is Up for Sale
The San Diego house where the original Paranormal Activity was filmed is on the market for $749,000, according to local news affiliate Q13 Fox.
The sunny suburban home, which has four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, boasts a pool, patio, and basketball hoop. (The online listing Q13 shows appears to have been taken down since the broadcast.)
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Of course, the listing doesn’t show photos of the house at night, when it’s most likely to trigger flashbacks to the 2007 found-footage horror film.
Paranormal Activity, about a young couple haunted by a demon, was shot over seven days at the Bavarian Drive house, where director Oren Peli lived at the time.
“When I moved into my house, it was the first time I lived in a detached family home as opposed to an apartment, and it’s in a very quiet, suburban neighborhood,” Peli told Moviefone in 2009.
“So you become very conscious of every little sound… I’m sure most of it was natural sounds of the house settling, but every once in a while you would hear things that would be weird and you couldn’t figure out where they are.”
Peli mined those fears for his movie, which cost just $15,000 and earned $193 million worldwide.
Paranormal Activity gave rise to the modern microbudget horror genre and spawned an army of sequels, the fifth of which (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) is due in theaters this March.
Just a word of advice for whoever buys that house: Keep a close eye on the security cameras.
Gwynne Watkins writes for Yahoo Movies