Casey’s House from “Scream 2”

“What’s your favorite scary movie?”  So asks Ghostface of Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) at the beginning of Scream.  Well, if Ghostface asked me that question, my answer would be Scream everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.  I love, love, love that movie!  Though I was not as big a fan of the film’s three sequels, I got on a kick recently of tracking down some of their unknown locales.  The spot I most wanted to find was the gorgeous peaked-roof house where Casey (Heather Graham) lived in Stab, Scream 2’s movie-within-a-movie.  Thanks to a lot of help from my friend Owen, of the When Write Is Wrong blog, I was finally able to locate it!

I knew from the Scream 2 production notes as well as the movie’s DVD commentary that the opening Stab sequence was shot in Malibu.  Though the front exterior of Casey’s residence was never shown in the scene, enough of the backyard and pool area was that I figured tracking the place down via aerial views would be a snap.  I was wrong.  I cannot tell you the countless hours I spent searching for the pad to no avail.

Enter Owen.  On the verge of giving up, I emailed him to ask if he might be willing to help with the hunt and provided him with all of the necessary information.  It was not long (minutes, really!) before I received an email back with an address.  As Owen discovered, Casey’s house from Scream 2 is located at 5730 Busch Drive in Malibu.

While searching for the home, Owen had come across a mention that during the filming of the Stab scene, neighbors heard Heather Graham’s screams and, not realizing that a film shoot was taking place, called the police.  Armed with that information, Owen began looking for more neighborhood-y areas of Malibu via aerial views and fairly quickly spotted the house in Malibu Park.  (I should mention here that I had also seen the anecdote about neighbors calling the police during my search for the residence, but I did not think it was pertinent.  Malibu is canyon-y and rather silent at night and I figured that the scene could have been shot at a remote property with Heather’s screams still easily heard by people in homes nearby.  That was a major fail on my part.  D’oh!)

According to a cached Zillow page, Casey’s Stab pad was originally built by architect Doug Rucker in 1961.  Rucker also later updated the property in 1989.  The contemporary dwelling boasts 10 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 4,148 square feet of living space, a driveway with parking for 8 cars, a swimming pool and spa, a putting green, a 1.01-acre plot of land, a garden, a 400-square-foot garage, vaulted ceilings, and skylights.

Quite a bit of the home was featured in Scream 2.  The property’s sprawling backyard is where poor Casey met her grizzly demise in a scene that emulated Drew Barrymore’s death from the original movie.

As you can see in the aerial view below, the backyard still looks much the same today as it did when the flick was filmed in 1997.

Portions of the residence’s interior also appeared onscreen, including a bathroom . . .

. . . and the living room.

It is while standing in the house that Casey utters one of the franchise’s most well-known lines – “You know, I don’t even know you and I dislike you already.”

Thanks to the residence’s wide expanse of sleek glass walls, much of the interior can be spotted in the backyard scenes, as well.

Though not much of the dwelling is visible from the street, especially not the areas used in Scream 2, I was absolutely floored to catch a glimpse from the road of the rear side of the fireplace that Casey walked by in the movie.

The house also made a brief appearance in Scream 4, during the Stab-a-Thon segment in which the opening scene from Stab was shown.

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Big THANK YOU to my friend Owen, of the When Write Is Wrong blog, for finding this location! 

Until next time, Happy Stalking!

Stalk It: Casey’s house from Scream 2 is located at 5730 Busch Drive in Malibu.

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