Houses of Horror IQ Test
In an effort to ease your mind about the condition of your own home and to offer a guidepost of hope, below are a number of examples of homes that could use a lot of TLC. There are fifteen iconic houses with a manacing or dubious history. Can you name them all?
Can you recognize the house, or the location?
Amityville Horror House
Toms River, NJ
Dutch Colonial house on Long Island
1) Toms River, NJ
Harry Potter – Alnwick Castle
Northumberland, UK
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
2) Northumberland, UK
Beetlejuice
East Corinth, VT
The Maitland’s quaint, turn-of-the-century home
3) East Corinth, VT
Woman In Black – Cotterstock Hall
Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, UK
Gothic-style backdrop of the sinister Eel Marsh House
4) Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, UK
Halloween
South Pasadena, CA
Michael Myers’ simple two-story house, now a chiropractic office
5) South Pasadena, CA
Hocus Pocus
Salem, MA
Max and Dani’s house with iconic lookout tower and red-trimmed porch
6) Salem, MA
House Of 7 Gables
Salem, MA
Turner-Ingersoll Mansion, a Jacobian, post-Medieval home
7) Salem, MA
Nightmare On Elm Street
West Hollywood, CA
Traditional/Modernist Fusion, two-story Spaulding Square home
8) West Hollywood, CA
Rocky Horror Picture Show – Oakley Court Hotel
Windsor, Berkshire, UK
Victorian Gothic country house backdrop for Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s Rock Horror Picture Show
9) Windsor, Berkshire, UK
Poltergeist
Simi Valley, CA
Mock-Tudor-style home harboring an evil secret beneath its foundation
10) Simi Valley, CA
The Shining
Mount Hood, OR
Fictional Overlook Hotel, Timberline Lodge, a government-owned National Historic Landmark
11) Mount Hood, OR
Silence of the Lambs
Perryopolis, PA
Buffalo Bob’s century-old, charming home
12) Perryopolis, PA
Addams Family House
Toluca Lake: movie adaptations
Palatine Bridge, NY: Gomez Addams House inspiration
13) Toluca Lake
Rose Red: Thornewood Castle
Lakewood, WA
Tudor Gothic-style English 16th century mansion, deconstructed and shipped to Lakewood, WA
14) Lakewood, WA
Zombieland
Atlanta, GA
Buckhead mansion serves as Bill Murray’s Hollywood estate
15) Atlanta, GA
How Many Did You Get?
These are all examples of homes where a great deal of work was done to make them sinister or menacing. Your home may not suffer the same level of disrepair, but we do need to give them a little TLC from time to time.
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