Jamie Lee Curtis’ real-life house used in John Carpenter’s Halloween goes off the market.According to TMZ, the South Pasadena, CA house that doubled for Laurie Strode’s Haddonfield, Illinois residence was sold just in time for the season for a reported $1.68 million. The Strode house went on the market in September with a market value of $1.8 million. Since the slasher classic was made in 1978, the house was transformed into a three-unit property which includes a garage that could be converted into a fourth unit.1978’s Halloween was the movie that elevated director Carpenter’s profile and made Curtis, in her theatrical debut, into an iconic scream queen. In the movie, Strode is a teenage babysitter in Haddonfield who becomes the target of mental institute escapee Michael Myers. Shot in the South Pasadena suburbs on a shoestring budget estimated around $300,000, Halloween became one of the year’s biggest moneymakers and innovated the slasher genre that influenced such classics as Friday the 13th and Scream.RELATED: Why Halloween: Resurrection Is the Only Movie Where Fans Root for Michael Myers
Jamie Lee Curtis’ real-life house used in John Carpenter’s Halloween goes off the market.
According to TMZ, the South Pasadena, CA house that doubled for Laurie Strode’s Haddonfield, Illinois residence was sold just in time for the season for a reported $1.68 million. The Strode house went on the market in September with a market value of $1.8 million. Since the slasher classic was made in 1978, the house was transformed into a three-unit property which includes a garage that could be converted into a fourth unit.
1978’s Halloween was the movie that elevated director Carpenter’s profile and made Curtis, in her theatrical debut, into an iconic scream queen. In the movie, Strode is a teenage babysitter in Haddonfield who becomes the target of mental institute escapee Michael Myers. Shot in the South Pasadena suburbs on a shoestring budget estimated around $300,000, Halloween became one of the year’s biggest moneymakers and innovated the slasher genre that influenced such classics as Friday the 13th and Scream.
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