12 New York Sites Hollywood Turned Into Houses of Horror | Mt Kisco Real Estate

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There are few things scarier than looking for a place to live in the city, which seems to explain the thematic importance of real estate to so many New York-based horror films. Whether it's satanists skulking around The Dakota or a virologist living on Washington Square Park in a post-apocalyptic world, New York apartments and homes—and the invasion of these spaces by the otherworldly—tend to figure prominently in Hollywood's version of creepy. With that in mind, we're listing some of the weirdest, most iconic apartments to have been featured in movies set in New York that are perfect to watch on Halloween. Not all of these are strictly horror films, with thriller, fantasy, and adventure bleeding through the porous boundaries of genre. They range in quality from "genuine classic" to "utter crap," but all of them are worth watching in their own ways, if only to see how New York finds its way onto the silver screen.
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↑ First up is kind of a no-brainer. With its dramatic features and dark, Victorian style, The Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street is almost tailor-made for horror cinema, making it an ideal setting for Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece Rosemary's Baby. The story of a couple (Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes) who move into the Upper West Side landmark and are befriended by their eccentric neighbors (who also happen to be satanists), the film is a master class in psychological horror.


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