Welcome to the boogeyman's home away from home.
The Myers House - North Carolina is a life-size replica of the infamous Michael Myers house from John Carpenter's classic horror film
HALLOWEEN. The house is located in rural Hillsborough, NC and is the personal residence of Kenny Caperton, Emily Currier and their two cats Loki and Siva.
Owner Kenny Caperton has been fascinated with all things Halloween since he was a little kid and grew up watching the 80's slasher flicks on late night cable television, but the blank pale face of serial killer Michael Myers stuck with him the most. Kenny's favorite film to this day is still the original 1978
HALLOWEEN. And in 2008, at the age of 26, he reached a point in his life were he was ready to stop paying rent and wanted to find a place of his own without the annoyance of landlords. For a lifelong fan of the
HALLOWEEN series, visiting the original Myers House (yes, it's still standing!) in South Pasadena, California during the process of house-hunting can give you crazy ideas ...so crazy they just might work - that is how the Myers House NC came to be. So what could have been just another cookie cutter starter home for a young couple became a one-of-a-kind, life-sized tribute to a classic horror movie.
But making this terrifying dream come true didn't come easy - the process was not without its obstacles and delays. The first stumbling blocks Kenny and Emily encountered were not having any blueprints (none exist for the original), not owning any land, and not having any real idea of how much a project like this would cost. Even though there is a potentially overwhelming amount of thought and prep work necessary to build a custom house, the couple were determined to make their dream come true and tackled each issue one by one: things like designing the layout and floor plan of the house themselves on a sheet of paper, finding an architect to create the building plans, hunting down a good piece of land, finding a local builder that was willing to take on such a crazy project, getting financing, picking out every single material to be used in the construction of the house ...the list goes on and on. But after many months of hard work and bloodshed, The Myers House NC was completed in March 2009, and can now be found looming eerily in the Hillsborough countryside.
As much as Kenny wanted to build the house as close to the original as possible, he and Emily realized early on that the interior spaces of the original house, which was built in 1888, were not practical for the place they would be living in for, most likely, their whole lives. So the NC version of the Myers House was designed to look as close as possible to the original house from the outside front and side views, but the interior and back of the house were intentionally altered to be livable by their vision and by modern standards. So the inside got a few extra bathrooms, bigger bedrooms and other interior alterations, but the important elements from the movie - Judith's room, the staircase and the basic locations of the kitchen, dining room and living room, are in the same places.
Another noteworthy difference between the North Carolina house and the original worth pointing out to
HALLOWEEN fans involves the exterior setting of the house and the interior décor. The NC house was built on over 5 acres of old farmland out in the country - sprawling hills and trees for miles. It would have been extremely hard, if not impossible to recreate the suburban Midwest feel of Haddonfield, IL for the replica house, simply because of all of the building codes and neighborhood restrictions now in place that weren't an issue in the past. While the house's setting might not duplicate the neighborhood the original house appears in, the rural setting has its own spooky charm and adds a unique twist on a house so many people are used to seeing in suburbia. Imagine Michael Myers attacking you and having no neighbors to run to! As far as the interior decorating, there is no way that Emily would let Kenny duplicate the 70's style look with the run down flooring, appliances, and furniture made famous in the original! Since the house is not just a replica project and is actually a primary place of residence, the house has modern appliances and was decorated in more of a rustic farmhouse/Victorian inspired look ...and of course with plenty of vintage Halloween décor and Horror memorabilia as accent pieces.
The Myers House NC hosts several horror get-togethers throughout the year and also puts on a huge "Halloween Bash" in October every year. The house has been featured in dozens of online, newspaper and magazine articles since its completion. Websites including CNBC.COM, YAHOO.COM, and AOL.COM have included the house in front-page articles, and the house was even mentioned on ABC’s
Good Morning America! Kenny and Emily recently made an appearance on an episode of
Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers TV show to talk about living in the house. Fellow
HALLOWEEN fans from all over (New York, Florida, Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia, etc.) have traveled to visit the NC Spookhouse. If you're interested in visiting The Myers House NC, please see the
VISIT section and
EVENTS section on the site for more details.
CONTACT: Kenny Caperton (kenny@myershousenc.com)
Emily Currier (emily@myershousenc.com)
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MYERS HOUSE NC - FILMING LOCATION & FILMOGRAPHY
The Myers House NC is available for use as a filming location. If you are interested in booking the house for an upcoming production, please contact the
North Carolina Film Office or email me directly at
kenny@myershousenc.com. Pricing is done on an individual basis depending on the production – please specify if you're interested in exterior or interior house use and how many hours / days you'll need at the location.
FILMOGRAPHY:
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Night of the Living Dead (Feature Film / Remake) V2 Pictures (pre-production)
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The Skeleton Kid (Stop-Motion Animation Short) The Myers House NC (pre-production)
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All Hallows Evil - Lord of the Harvest (Feature Film) Southlan-Films (filming)
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Glitch: What Is Real? (Feature Film) Idtoi Dada (filming)
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Foodie (Short Film) Cinema Fuel Productions (post-production)
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Dr. Drew's Lifechangers (Halloween Special) Warner Bros. Entertainment / The CW (2011)
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Total Skull (Halloween Promo Video) Total Skull / Sheri Moon Zombie (2011)
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Legends 2 (
HALLOWEEN Fan Film) Godbout Entertainment (2011)
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Scarecrow At Midnight (Short Film) Mutantville Productions (2011)
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Judith (
HALLOWEEN Tribute Short Film) The Myers House NC & Circa Sixty-Seven Industries (2010)
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Halloween: Inside Story (
HALLOWEEN Documentary) A&E Biography (2010)
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Return of the Sandman (
HALLOWEEN Fan Film) Southlan-Films (2009)
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MYERS HOUSE NC - VIDEO CLIPS
Kenny Caperton and Emily Currier’s appearance on the Halloween episode of
Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers TV show. (October 2011)
The Myers House NC mentioned on ABC's
Good Morning America in their “Pop News Heat Index” segment about movie inspired houses. (July 2011)
Exploring the framing of
The Myers House NC during construction on Friday, October 3, 2008.
