#The Original A Nightmare On Elm Street House Is For Sale

The house was used in Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a horror movie with dream worlds and shocking death sequences, released in 1984. In it, a burnt, disfigured killer named Freddy Krueger with a bladed glove has the power to access and control others’ dreams, focusing this power on a group of teenagers in Springwood, Ohio. His biggest target is Nancy Thompson, who lives in the house pictured. 1428 Elm Street is also the site of the film’s climax, wherein Nancy confronts Freddy and lures him through a series of booby traps throughout the interior. 

Shot in just over a month with a budget of $2 million, Craven’s film was not only the signal of a more energetic and stylistic Master of Horror (whose previous films like “Deadly Friend” lacked the refined storytelling “Nightmare” has) the genesis of a lucrative, long-running horror franchise (nine films!) and the launchpad for one of the biggest slasher icons in the pop-culture consciousness.