Sarah’s House from “The Craft”

Another day, another request – this one also from my friends Lavonna and Katie regarding The Craft.  (You can read yesterday’s post about HarborPlace Tower from the movie here).  During a recent group texting session, Katie asked if I knew the location of the home where Sarah Bailey (Robin Tunney) lived with her dad, Mr. Bailey (Cliff De Young), and her step-mom, Jenny (Jeanine Jackson), in the flick.  Well, not only did I know the location, but I had actually stalked it!  Though I was never a huge fan of The Craft, Sarah’s rambling Spanish-style home made an impression on me when I first watched the film back in 1996.  So when I came across its address a couple of months ago thanks to an anonymous commenter on the Movie Locations and More website (who tracked the pad down all the way from Australia!), I immediately jotted it in my stalking notebook and headed on over there a few weeks later.

At the beginning of The Craft, Sarah and her family move from San Francisco to Los Angeles.  Their new home first pops up in one of the film’s opening scenes . . .

. . . and is then seen regularly throughout the rest of the movie.

Thanks to Google Street View, I knew prior to stalking the residence that it was set far back from the road and that virtually none of it was visible.

You can just barely catch a glimpse of the dwelling in the images below.

Thankfully, aerial views provide a better look at the property.  As you can see below, the house still looks much the same today as it did back in 1996 when The Craft was filmed.

Per Zillow, the 1927 home boasts 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3,429 square feet of living space, and a 0.58-acre plot of land.

Quite a bit of the residence was shown in the movie, including the pool, which was left dry for the shoot.

The property’s extensive driveway also made an appearance, though it looks substantially different today than it did in 1996 due to some massive foliage growth and the addition of a large detached garage.

Though the interior of Sarah’s home is said to have been built on a soundstage, I am guessing that it was closely modeled after the property’s real life interior.  Unfortunately, I could not find any photographs of the inside of the residence with which to verify that hunch.

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Stalk It: Sarah’s house from The Craft is located at 8330 McGroarty Street in Sunland.

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