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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Original farm house from "Night of the Living Dead" (1962) from a screencap. It was a farmhouse near the Monongahela River which I believe was torn down and nothing but a few pieces of siding exist. But a couple of years ago a place was offering Halloween tours through the farmhouse. (Scroll down to George A Romero's Fright Nights here.) I wish I knew where you really went on that Halloween tour. A mock-up?
House from the 1990 remake, in West Middletown, PA. I love this house as much as I love The Chicken Ranch.
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I just found your blog, & I love it!
Thanks Bree!
I concur...I also love this blog! Great posts!!
Can anyone confirm that the remake house is in West Middletown? IMDB state that its in East Buffalo which is on the other side of the state. W. Middletown seems like a more obvious choice being closer to Pittsburgh but I just wanted to make sure...?
Hi tyler -- When I was looking up photos, I found this link:
http://wikimapia.org/8014987/Night-of-the-Living-Dead-1990-House
It shows an overhead aerial view of the house and land, which it indicates is 6 KM from the center of Middletown. If you zoom out and find the road just to the right of the house, follow that road north to a highway. Then follow that highway west, you'll end up at a small town/cluster of houses. Keep following that highway west and you'll get to West Middletown.
I'm not familiar with the area, and I can't see the house very well, but it LOOKS like the one used in the film. There's also a flickr feed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/filminglocationsdetectives/2558745948/
Which shows West Middletown. I think the IMDb is wrong on this one. It's wrong about a lot of things, actually.
I had a feeling it was wrong! Thanks for your help! I think i must have searched the whole internet for the location and none sounded right. I thought for sure it was somewhere in Washington county! I've always loved both movies and growing up in Western PA my whole life, I've yet to go and see it for myself. It's on my list of things to do. I wonder if they get used to people driving by like a tourist...
Also I'd like to say that I think it's a gorgeous house and the new owners have obviously done a wonderful job with the upkeep.
I agree, it's a beautiful house. There is a link on that Flickr account I mentioned that goes to a filming location website. They have some recent pics of the house and it still looks great. I've always loved large farmhouses with huge porches, especially wrap-around ones.
Do you have an address to the picture of the Night 1990 Farmhouse? I want to see if I can find it on windows live local.
Sorry, I don't have an address, just the info in the post and in the reply to Tyler above.
I'd be willing to bet the address is very vague. That's hardcore Pennsylvania farm country. They most likely have a P.O. Box. Another downside, they have a very long driveway which leads only to the house...would be pretty hard to even just drive by without freakin out some farmers. I'm sure they're like "That was 20 years ago, get the hell over it!!" Sadly...I can't. :)
There may be what's called a "911 address" for it. Around here, the rural roads were all given names and the houses numbers to make it easier for emergency services to find homes. I have no idea if PA is the same, though, and the 911 address probably wouldn't help you find the house on an Internet map.
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