Jeff’s House from “Spellbinder”

My Haunted Hollywood backlog is getting ridiculous!  Currently, I have more than 50 already-stalked spooky locations compiled – and only about 20 or so days each year to blog about them.  Regardless, I keep compiling more – and I love every minute of it!  Why can’t all year be Halloween?  Last October, fellow stalker Chas, of the It’s Filmed There website, contributed to my ever-growing list by texting to let me know about a horror movie house he thought I might be interested in – the residence where Jeff Mills (Tim Daly) lived in 1988’s Spellbinder.  I had never seen the film before, or even heard of it actually, but was fascinated by the fact that the home was located on Westwanda Drive in Beverly Hills, the very same street where Yvette Vickers lived and was found dead in 2011, after months of lying dead on her floor.  (I blogged about that property in October 2014.)  I ran right out to stalk the Spellbinder pad and, though I was not able to include it in last year’s Haunted Hollywood postings, wanted to make sure to fit it in this year.

Sadly, as I discovered upon arriving, the house is obscured by a large fence and very little of it can be seen from the road.

Not much of the residence is visible from the other side of the property, either.

That was not the case back in ‘88 when Spellbinder was filmed, though.  As you can below, at the time, the dwelling was only surrounded by a small white picket fence.

What can be seen today, though, matches what appeared onscreen.

In real life, the Cape Cod-style residence, which was built in 1954, boasts 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 1,940 square feet of living space.

I am fairly certain that the interior of Jeff’s home was a set – especially being that much of it was destroyed at the hands of the otherworldly friends of Jeff’s new girlfriend, Miranda Reed (Kelly Preston), in the film.

I was able to dig up one interior photograph of the residence from an old MLS listing and in it you can see that the set fireplace from Spellbinder very closely resembles that of the actual house, though it is situated differently.  I am guessing that most of the set was modeled after the home’s real life interior.

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Big THANK YOU to Chas, from the It’s Filmed There website, for telling me about this location.  You can check out his page on Spellbinder’s other filming locations here.

Until next time, Happy Stalking!

Stalk It: Jeff’s house from Spellbinder is located at 9912 Westwanda Drive in Beverly Crest.  Yvette Vickers’ former home was located just up the street at 10021 Westwanda Drive, though it has been demolished.

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