Take a picture of a house. Either way, it's a weird one. It might be a Victorian Gothic building with a few stories and a porch.
Scary old abandoned houses have long been a requirement in horror stories, usually with overgrown lawns, too many mirrors, and white sheets draped over antiques that suddenly move.
The challenge with the Creel House has been met by the fourth season of the show. One of the most important locations in the fourth season of the series is Vecna's house, which is something I wouldn't investigate in the middle of the night.
Knock, knock. Credit: Netflix
The Creel House is located in Rome, Georgia, about an hour and a half away from Atlanta. It's private property so don't march all over their lawn for selfies or harass residents, it has a real address and it's private property.
Creeeeeeeel! Credit: Screenshot: Google Maps
The production team for the show was looking for a spooky house with vertical architecture and an attic. The production designer associated the house with the Bates House from Psycho and the team approached the owners.
The Bates House from "Psycho" which still lives on the Universal backlot in Los Angeles. Credit: Paramount / Kobal / Shutterstock
The Creel House was a bed and breakfast before it was a house. The 7,122- square-foot house was sold for 350,000 dollars. The house that Toles, Temple, and Wright describe as Claremont House has six bedrooms, eight fireplaces, and a walk up attic.
The current owners of the Creel House had just closed on the sale a month before the location team found them, so they were able to film before the renovations began. The production team recreated the house for later use.
Victor and Virginia Creel bought the house in 1959 with an inheritance from Virginia's great uncle, moving in with their kids and hoping for a fresh start for their son. "We had one month of peace in that house" is how Victor tells Nancy and Robin in the movie "Friday the 13th". That's more time than you might think, the Perrons get in The Conjuring or theHarmons get in American Horror Story. Poor Creels, it's still fast.
Could be a shot from multiple horror movies tbh. Credit: Netflix
The Creel House's interior in 1959 has everything you need from a movie house to a grand staircase. Alice described it as looking like a fairy tale.
Trujillo told Tudum blo g that they looked for grandfather clocks. Jess Royal found it either in an estate sale or from an antique vendor. Maybe it was in Georgia. We made copies of it after modifying it to our needs. I don't know where it came from.
Turning back time. Credit: Netflix
What haunted house doesn't have a claw foot bathtub?
Claw-foot bathtubs mandatory: "Crimson Peak" had one. Credit: Legendary / Universal / Kobal / Shutterstock
"I guess a triple homicide isn't good for resale value," Robin says, "but covered in as much dust and cobwebs as Royal's set dressing." There is a rocking chair in the room beyond the lobby. Lucas makes a joke about needing to play the piano correctly in order to open the attic door.
Cobwebs on lamps mandatory: William Castle's "The House on Haunted Hill." Credit: Allied Artists / Kobal / Shutterstock
The Creel House doesn't have the scale of the grand halls of Bly manor, or the cleverness of the secret rooms of House on haunted hill. It's on a smaller scale than The Amityville Horror or the Well House in Stephen King's IT, more akin to a flat-fronted house.
The Well House from "IT" Credit: Screenshot: YouTube / Warner Bros
The author knows that it's not the only King reference in the show.
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I'm going to say it. The Creel House is similar to Stephen King's real house.
C'mon, it does! Credit: Sipa / Shutterstock
The Creel House is not on the cover of Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine.
Credit: R.L. Stine / Scholastic
The Creel House can be seen in other states, like sitting pretty in 1959 and crumbling in 1986. When we see Vecna in the attic, it's blue in the upside down. Steve calls it Vecna's red soup mind world, and it's broken into pieces within Vecna's own mind.
Max stumbles upon the Creel House in Vecna's mind... Credit: Netflix
The Creel House is only one of the horror homages the location team wrangled for the season. The scenes in which Nancy and Robin visit Victor Creel at the Pennhurst Mental Hospital in Kerley County, Indiana, were filmed at Berry College in Rome, Georgia, a few miles from where the real Creel House is.
Even though the Creel House isn't as memorable as other horror houses, it still pays homage to them in tried and true Duffer Brothers nostalgia form. There are still mysteries to be solved within the walls of the Creel House, and we will learn all of them in the final episodes of the show. We still have a lot of unanswered questions.
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