The ‘Paranormal Activity’ House is Up for Sale

Would you live here? The <i>Paranormal Activity</i> house is up for sale. Photo: Icon Films
Would you live here? The Paranormal Activity house is up for sale. Photo: Icon Films

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.

The house used in the filming of <i>Paranormal Activity</i> is up for sale. Photo: Q13 Fox
The house used in the filming of Paranormal Activity is up for sale. Photo: Q13 Fox

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.

The stuff of nightmares: a scene from the original <i>Paranormal Activity</i> film. Photo: Icon Films
The stuff of nightmares: a scene from the original Paranormal Activity film. Photo: Icon Films

“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