Put The Lotion In The Basket: The Silence Of The Lambs House Is For Sale

OK, no one actually did make a real-life suit of human skin there, but nevertheless, would you be up for living in the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ house?

It’s a question worth mulling, because the four-bedroom residence at 8 Circle Street, in the quaint town of Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, is currently up for sale.

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For a reasonable $300,000 (£191,000), you could scoop up the home of Jame Gumb, better known under his murdering nom-de-plume Buffalo Bill.

Scott and Barbara Lloyd, who bought the house in 1976 and are now looking to downsize, lived upstairs while director Jonathan Demme filmed Jodie Foster and Ted Levine facing off downstairs.

“They were looking for a home in which you entered the front door and had a straight line through,” Barbara Lloyd told the Pittsburgh Tribune.

“They wanted it to look like a spider web, with Buffalo Bill drawing Jodie Foster into the foyer, into the kitchen, then into the basement.”

In fact, the home, built in 1910 and which hosted the Lloyds’ wedding in 1977, is actually quite lovely.

There’s a pool out the back (complete with a vintage railway trailer converted into a pool house), a substantial garage-cum-workshop, and many original period features.

But what about that dry well adorned with human fingernails, we hear you ask?

On sale with the firm Berkshire Hathaway, it does get a mention, perhaps inadvisably, in the listing.

It reads: “The dining room is where Jame Gumb had the drawer opened and fumbled with cards when Agent Starling pulled her automatic weapon, and he scurried away. The pit… now there is the question… is there really a pit in the basement, or is all just movie magic? Just put on the lotion, and come see this home and find out!!!!”

Erm, we might give this one a miss after all…

Image credits: Yahoo Movies/Berkshire Hathaway/Orion Pictures