The 2,400-square foot Victorian has gone on sale for the relatively-low price of 0,000, and includes four large bedrooms, a full attic, a gazebo, an in-ground pool and pool house (a converted caboose), and built-in fireplaces, mantles, cabinets, and shelving. The basement dungeon where the killer kept one would-be victim, however, doesn’t exist.
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In fact, Bill’s dungeon – the most horrifying part of the 1991 film – wasn’t shot in the house, but on a soundstage.
Aside from the home, there are other memorabilia from the 1990 Best Picture winning movie set in the house.
Owners Scott and Barbara Lloyd, both 63, purchased the home in 1976.
Of course, the house wasn’t actually owned by the fictional character in real life, but rather Scott and Barbara Llyod, who revealed in an interview that prepping the foyer and dining room for the movie took six weeks for just three days of filming. They were married in the foyer in 1976 and have since raised a family there. Anthony Hopkins played Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a crazed, cannibalistic psychiatrist whose macabre clues help Clarice Starling, the rookie Federal Bureau of Investigation agent played by Jodie Foster, track down and kill Buffalo Bill in his home. Realtor Dianne Wilk, of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is in charge of the listing and believes its haunting history may be a selling point.
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She said: “People love to be scared, I could see somebody doing something fun with this”.
