![]() ![]() The large freestanding cage where they attempt to contain Dr. Each Halloween season, the Soldiers & Sailor’s Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh holds a Silence of the Lambs-themed event. It’s not just Buffalo Bill’s House that fans come to southwestern Pennsylvania for. The house now memorializes this moth with artwork as well as several actual specimens – many sent in by fans. We found the Edward Check Funeral Home on a long drive out to Mckeesport looking for tools and tables we could rent for the Gumb basement.” The green-tiled room at that funeral home became the exam room where the agents first find a death’s head hawkmoth in a victim’s throat. We used that idea for Frederica Bimmel’s father. “Kristi saw a man who raised pigeons in Glenwillard. When director Jonathan Demme and production designer Kristi Zea scouted the area in 1989, the vision within the unusual script came to life. The entire region fueled their creativity, Karen O’Hara, the prop stylist for the movie, told Thrillist. The crew of 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs spent an entire year in Pittsburgh and the surrounding rural areas. Now he’s running a guest house, tours, and helping fellow Silence aficionados cosplay their dream scenes, just about an hour outside the city. Long enthralled with the complex psychological thriller, Rowan says he had no idea it was filmed nearly entirely in Pittsburgh until discovering the property. “If you would have told me I would manufacture and distribute my own line of body lotion that I sell out of a rural Pennsylvania home, I would have said, 'You are bat-shit crazy,' but here we are.” He’s referencing the lotion which Buffalo Bill infamously lowers down a well to his victims, in an effort to soften their skin for his sewing machine. He could have tried his hand at sourdough, but after seeing the 1910 home listed for sale on a horror fan website, Rowan says he became “obsessed” with the idea of creating a horror-themed destination instead, down to collectible merchandise that includes hand-made lotion. How did a prop stylist and art director from the New York City metro area come to own a former movie set in Perryopolis, a town in rural southwestern Pennsylvania? Rowan and his wife bought the house in 2020 for $290,000 when everyone was stuck at home and looking for new side projects. During a visit to the property in late September, Rowan points out to visitors the scratches on the front door that are visible when Gumb first opens it to Agent Starling near the end of the film. “The team could envision the perfect chase scene down this center hallway that runs the whole length of the house, right down to the basement where the final scenes take place,” says Chris Rowan, who now owns this house where Jodie Foster's Agent Clarice Starling fatally shoots Ted Levine's serial killer Jame Gumb - also known as “Buffalo Bill” - in the Silence of the Lambs. ![]() It was the ideal setting to transform into a dim, dilapidated corridor for the ultimate game of cat-and-mouse between a psychopath who keeps people in a pit for their skin and a novice FBI agent. ![]() When a movie crew was scouting rural Pennsylvanian towns in the late '80s to find the perfect location for a serial killer’s gruesome demise, a long, simple hallway that sealed the deal. ![]()
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