Horror fans have had the pick of the litter lately when it comes to the sale of movie houses! Just a few of the famous slasher pads to recently hit the market include the Paramour Estate from “Scream 3,” Glen Lantz’ (Johnny Depp) residence from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and the childhood home of Michael Myers (Don Shanks) from 1989’s “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.” The latter, a unique Shingle-style property located in Salt Lake City, Utah, was listed for less than a month before it was swooped off the market by an eager buyer.
As first reported by A Reel Experience, the two-and-a-half-story dwelling came up for sale for a cool $950,000 on November 20, 2020, sparking immediate interest and thrilling horror fans across the nation. Listing agent Robyn Christensen of Coldwell Banker Realty’s Salt Lake – Sugar House office told Realtor.com, “We had multiple offers over asking the first day, so it’s definitely a hot item.” Tax records indicate the pad ultimately closed just a little over three weeks later at $806,400.
Supposedly located in Haddonfield, Illinois, in actuality the property can be found at 1007 East 1st Ave., in SLC’s prestigious The Avenues Historic District, a picturesque community which, per The Avenues website, comprises “approximately 100 square blocks of late 19th and early 20th century residential, commercial, and civic architecture in a variety of styles.”
There seems to be some confusion regarding the provenance of the home floating around online. Though the listing and a 1974 Utah State Historical Society Structure/Site Information Form contend the dwelling was designed by architect Frederick Albert Hale, most other sources, including a 2013 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, note it as being the work of the Ware & Cornell architecture firm. Known as the N.H. Beeman House in honor of original occupant Newell Beeman, the property was commissioned circa 1892 by developers Frank E. McGurrin and Elmer Darling.
There is some additional confusion surrounding the pad’s past owners, as well, but in their 1980 book The Avenues of Salt Lake City, authors Karl T. Haglund and Philip F. Notarianni maintain that they include railroad businessman Hoyt Sherman and Claude W. Freed, who co-founded the Salt Lake Country Club and is known as the “father of Utah golf.” In 1938, the structure was purchased by a realtor named Quayle Cannon who converted it into four separate apartment units.
As such, the site, which was operating as a triplex at the time of last year’s sale, boasts four kitchens and an abundance of living areas. With 10 bedrooms and five baths spread across 7,354 square feet, there is certainly plenty of room for multiple families to make the place their home.
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Image Credit: LMT Online Though Haglund and Notarianni note that the Beeman House “shows a deft use of the Shingle style, a reaction against the florid ornament of the most elaborate Victorian styles and a precursor of the more restrained Colonial Revival,” the exterior of the place seems anything but restrained. A three-story tower capped by a conical roof, a multitude of stained glass and a central palladian window add up to a rather dramatic façade.
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Image Credit: Dread Central The listing asserts that the property, which was renovated in 1980, “has had its share of wear and tear over the years and needs some work,” but the place comes across pretty spectacularly in the MLS photos, with exquisite custom woodwork gracing practically every surface!
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Image Credit: Dread Central The sellers seemed to ascribe to the more-is-more philosophy when it came to paint, carpet and wallpaper, but somehow the melange works. The residence is marvelously unique and would be even more so with a little TLC. Indeed, the listing calls it “one of The Avenues’ historic masterpieces.”
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Image Credit: Dread Central Along with the extensive woodwork, the interior sports a slew of original details including a mirrored buffet, decorative mullions, picture rail moldings and two fireplaces, one with a glazed brick hearth.
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Image Credit: Old House Dreams Keeping with the vibrant design schematic, colorful tiling abounds throughout, mainly in the home’s multitude of bathrooms.
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Image Credit: Old House Dreams Sloped ceilings frame virtually every room on the top floor creating a labyrinth of dynamic angling at each turn.
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Image Credit: Dread Central Capping the upper level is the residence’s impressive turret, which is fashioned as a covered balcony overlooking the spacious 0.39-acre corner lot below. The property’s original 870-square-foot carriage house still stands on the grounds and now serves as a two-car garage/workshop. Interestingly though, the listing makes no mention of a laundry chute on the premises.
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Image Credit: Coldwell Banker In “Halloween 5,” disturbed killer Michael Myers returns to his hometown of Haddonfield to murder his niece, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). His longtime psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasence), is, of course, not far behind, actively attempting to thwart him. It is at the Beeman House that the doctor sets up a trap using Jamie as bait in the hopes of luring Michael in and apprehending him, but things do not go according to plan.
The flick was very poorly received by fans of the popular franchise, with the Reel to Real Filming Locations website lamenting, “Thanksgiving came early in 1989 with this turkey. ‘Halloween 5’ was released just a year after ‘Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers’ (1988) and boy does it show. A bad script, a horrible mask, obviously shot in late spring/early summer and perhaps the most annoying character to ever grace the big screen (lookin’ at you, Tina).” Audiences showed their disdain via their pocketbooks. Per The Numbers, “Halloween 5” is the franchise’s poorest grossing film, only bringing in a scant $11,642,254 in worldwide box office receipts.
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Image Credit: Lindsay Blake Complaints about the movie abound, not the least of which concerns the house chosen to portray the Myers’ residence. “Halloween 5’s” production team obviously got their wires crossed with the locale being that it looks nothing like the property used as the Myers home in the 1978 original (pictured above). That dwelling, which can be found at 1000 Mission St. in South Pasadena, is much smaller in scope and simpler in design than its 1989 counterpart.
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Image Credit: Google The swap did not go unnoticed. As Robert Patterson states on his Set-Jetter website, “It is about ten times the size as when we last saw it. Are we sure Dr. Loomis has the right house?”
At least when the producers of “Scream 4” opted to shoot in Michigan instead of Northern California, where the first installment was lensed, great pains were made to utilize locales that greatly resembled their predecessors. Not so much with “Halloween 5.”
The reason for the switch? According to Dread Central, the production called for a much larger home than the original “Halloween” to accommodate for the “climax and lengthy chase scenes.”
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Image Credit: Dread Central The interior of the Beeman property was also utilized in the filming. In the “Inside Halloween 5” featurette, cinematographer Rob Draper says, “The house had just been newly renovated and along comes the movie crew and the first thing we do is put the family in a hotel, take all the furniture out and totally trash the house.” Thankfully, if the MLS images are to be believed, the place recovered nicely.
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