‘Silence of the Lambs’ Home Price Hits $225,000

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‘Silence of the Lambs’ Home Price Hits $225,000

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The “Silence of the Lambs” house is on the market for $224,900. Its name is a based on the use of the home as a set piece of the film — as the residence of killer Jame Gumb. This week is the 25th anniversary of the film’s release.

Gumb was played by Ted Levine. He kidnapped women and kept them in a deep well of the “Silence of the Lambs” house (he later skinned them), which is located at 8 Circle St. Perry Township Fay, Pa. It has five bedrooms, one full bath and sits on 1.76 acres. The bedroom to bathroom ratio may make the home hard to sell.

The movie was a wild success. It cost $19 million to film and had box office sales of $272 million. The popularity of the movie was probably helped by the fame of the two primary characters. Jodie Foster played Clarice Starling, a green FBI agent. Anthony Hopkins played flesh-eating psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter.
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The “Silence of the Lambs” house was the most widely searched one on Realtor.com last week. It was also the most searched listing on Realtor.com nine months ago.

The house, which was built in 1906, has been hard to sell. It has been on Realtor.com for 126 days. The house was originally put up for sale on August 15, 2015, at a price of $300,000. Price drops have not been successful as a means to find a buyer. Also, the house may not be in the middle of nowhere, but it is close to that. It sits in a town well south of Pittsburgh, not close to any large or even medium-sized city. Based on photos of the house, it is in poor shape, but at least it has a Chessie System caboose (full-sized) and a pool.

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McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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