Buffalo’s Bill house from the Oscar-winning 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs has been put up for sale.
The Pittsburgh property, known as the site where the fictional serial killer kept his lotion-smothered kidnap victim, is a three-storey Victorian house that’s selling at $300,000 (£192,000). It boasts four bedrooms, a pool and a garage that fits four cars.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, the house was purchased by a couple in the 1970s who were approached in 1989 to ask if their house could be used in the hit film. The film-makers shot the exterior as well as the foyer and dining room.
“They were looking for a home in which you entered the front door and had a straight line through,” home-owner Barbara Lloyd said. “They wanted it to look like a spider web, with Buffalo Bill drawing Jodie Foster into the foyer, into the kitchen, then into the basement.”
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Diane Wilk is the estate agent looking after the property and she believes its notoriety could be a major selling point.
“People love to be scared,” she said. “I could see somebody doing something fun with this.”
