17 Beautifully Creepy Horror Movie Homes We’d Actually Like to Live In Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Miramax Films1/17The Others (2001)
Set in post-WWII Europe, Nicole Kidman plays a mother cooped up with two mysteriously photosensitive children and three spooky servants in a remote country house. It’s the kind of place that seems fit for a quiet weekend in the country—wood paneling, cozy fireplaces, leaded-glass windows, and wingback chairs made for curling up with a book—so long as you’re okay with it maybe being haunted.
Photo: Everett Collection2/17The Omen (1976)
This film is all about the demonic child, appropriately named Damien, terrorizing his family. But he happens to do it in a glorious mansion filled with stunning architectural details—like the ornate balusters in the famous railing scene. Just remove the child from the picture and the house becomes quite livable.
Photo: AF Archive / Alamy3/17The Awakening (2011)
Set in England circa 1921, a young expert on supernatural hoaxes accepts a case exploring the unexpected death of a pupil at a boys’ boarding school. And the school is every bit of what you’d hope for: a grand stone manor full of paneling, dramatic winding staircases, frieze-covered walls, and, for the detail-obsessed: really striking octagonal doorknobs.
Photo: Everett Collection4/17The Haunting (1963)
This is one scary movie that is really all about the house: a Neo-Gothic mansion, to be exact, that a group visits to explore alleged paranormal activity. Even though the wallpaper morphs into eerie faces, the walls seem to talk, the spiral staircase in the conservatory is essentially a death trap, and the house itself is trying to kill the inhabitants, oh what a beautiful house it is.
Photo: AF Archive / Alamy5/17The Addams Family (1991)
A home that includes a bottomless pit, swamp, and quicksand would be unappealing to most, but when the house in question is the Addams Family mansion, those just become quaint quirks to overlook in favor of appreciating the home’s finer points—namely the floor-to-ceiling shelves in the study, two-story fireplaces, ornate dark-wood paneling throughout, and the basement lagoon perfect for romantic gondola rides.
