The Original Halloween Home of Michael Myers

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• Real-life Stranger Things houses & how much they’re worth
• Here's how to throw your kids a spooktacular Halloween party on a budget
• Is it Real? Michael Myers’ house in ‘Halloween’
• Ted Lasso’s Juno Temple Reveals She Grew Up in the Original Michael Myers House from Halloween
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• The “Schitt’s Creek” mansion in Toronto is for sale (again). But you’d need Rose family money to afford it

A Midwestern boy at heart, he was raised in St. Louis and studied journalism at the University of Missouri. Before joining The Times as an intern in 2017, he wrote for the Columbia Missourian and Politico Europe. Since 1978, 12 other films in the franchise have been released, with the latest flick, Halloween Ends, hitting cinema screens last year and seeing both Oscar winner Curtis, 64, and Richards, 54, reprising their roles. “Apparently there was a moment where I was outside on a swing, probably playing with Barbies and fairies, and I have naturally very curly hair and the tour bus was like, ‘Oh my God it’s Shirley Temple! Temple then shared a funny moment that happened one Halloween when the tour bus came past their house.

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Without intervention, the house would have been destroyed as it was set to be bulldozed in 1987 to make way for a hospital. Fortunately, it was salvaged and moved from its original location at 709 Meridian Avenue to its current residence on Mission St.  Owner David Margrave saved the house from imminent destruction on a whim. Dave recalled that there were six houses side by side on Meridian Avenue, and during the course of about a 3-week period there were houses removed each day one at a time.

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Judith fell off of her chair and onto her bedroom floor where she died shortly thereafter. “I just came from the ‘Halloween’ house, and I thought I’d just go down the street,” Wiseman said. Carpenter used the South Pasadena neighborhood as the film’s setting of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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Jamie also ran into the attic of the old Myers house where she found the corpses of Rachel Carruthers and the family dog, Max. The house was later sold to Morgan's brother, John Strode, who moved his family in by 1995. The house was originally built in the 1890s and it was bought by Peter Myers and Edith Myers in 1945, not long after they got married. They took great pride in the house and great care with the upkeep of owning a house. Initially, they intended to have only one child and thought that Haddonfield would be a wonderful place to raise a child.

The home is now a mini tourist attraction in Pasadena and is even across the street from the hardware store where in the movie Myers stole some rope, a knife and a Halloween mask. So we wanted to take a look at the original residence of the infamous Michael Myers that was featured in the 1978 horror classic. Halloween is not just a time for candy, costumes and neighborhood lawn decor. It’s also a time that features some of the scariest homes in cinematic history. If you look at the history of horror, you’ll notice that many homes are central characters in the film. Psycho, The House on Haunted Hill, and Cabin in the Woods are just a few examples.

When Michael's parents come home and pull a clown mask off his face, it foreshadows the masked killer he will continue to be in adulthood. Fifteen years later, Michael's fate becomes intertwined with Laurie's when she visits the house, which her father is trying to sell, and he begins stalking her. The original location of the house was 707 Meridian Avenue, right down the block from the current address, during the filming of Halloween. Due to the extremely low budget allocated to the film, director John Carpenter actually shot the exteriors and interiors at the house, making it one helluva a movie location gem for fans.

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After Michael's killing spree, Pete McCabe and a young Frank Hawkins found a distraught Lonnie Elam outside of the Myers house. Pete and Frank investigated the home, leading to Michael Myers attacking McCabe in Judith's bedroom. After Frank accidentally killed Pete, Michael left the home only to be stopped just on the porch by Dr. Loomis and thirteen policemen. The house was seen again in the film with a blue and red coat of paint, with couple Big John and Little John living in it until their deaths on October 31st, 2018. Lonnie, his son Cameron, and Allyson Nelson went to the house, leading to Lonnie and Cameron's murders by Michael.

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Next door, there's also the SugarMynt Gallery, an attraction that pays homage to the Halloween franchise. "The house has been moved in recent years, and now stands near a railway line." If you’re enjoying our explorations of Los Angeles, please consider supporting us on Patreon or making a one-time donation via PayPal.

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Interestingly enough, the new location means that the house is right across the street from Nichol’s Hardware store, where Laurie and Anne hang out in the movie. That’s where the original Halloween movie was filmed, and where the infamous home of the Myers family can be found — more precisely, at 1000 Mission Street. If you like the Halloween movie house, check out the Paranormal Activity house and the A Nightmare On Elm Street house, two other iconic horror movie houses. The Doyle house, where Laurie ends up in a grueling battle with Micahel Myers at the end of the movie, was built in 1920.

Morgan Strode of Strode Realty attempted to sell the estate, but was unable due to its bizarre history. However, their hopes of having a happy and healthy family came to a sudden and tragic end. At the age of six, Michael was developing severe psychological problems that consumed a lot of his parents' time and put a great strain on the family as a whole.

After Michael finished kindergarten, the Myers family moved across town into a smaller residence, a rather plain four-bedroom two-storey Victorian house. In the years following its vacancy, the house had become run-down until 1995 when John and Debra Strode attempted to renovate whilst still in the moving process. After the deaths of the Strode family, Morgan and Pamela cleaned up the property, renovated and enlarged the interior, and constructed a modest one-car garage to compliment the residence. In 1998, with the property still not purchased, Morgan and Pamela permanently removed it from the real estate market. In 2002, with the property rundown and overgrown with vines and tall grass, the municipal government passed a resolution outlawing all vacant real properties within city limits from being unkept.

Carpenter shot the film with a low budget, meaning he had to cut a few corners to bring Haddonfield, Illinois, to life. Wardrobe and props were made from everyday items - including Myers' famous mask, which was a re-purposed rubber mask of Captain Kirk from Star Trek - while real-life houses, schools and neighbourhoods were used as sets. You can actually visit Michael Myers' home from Halloween - and it turns out the building has quite the story to tell beyond its past life as a movie set. The Myers House NC has been featured in dozens of newspaper, magazine, and online articles worldwide - everything from the front page of the local Hillsborough, NC newspaper, to South Pasadena, CA, the UK, and Japan.

Aside from its significance as a famous film location, South Pas recognized the house, built in 1888, as possibly being the city’s oldest surviving frame residence. Historians consider the house to be the city's first duplex, marking the arrival of settlers from Indiana and their Midwestern influence on local architecture. The house itself blends several architectural styles, showing Midwestern Greek revival and salt box characteristics, as well as Eastlake elements such as the gable ornaments. Making this terrifying dream a reality didn't come easy - the process was not without its obstacles and delays.