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Twilight Movie House?

By Alex in Movies & SciFi on Jul 3, 2008 at 3:52 pm


I snapped these photos a while back when a house nearby mine was rented by a movie shoot for a ridiculously large amount of money. Later, I found out that the house is supposedly (emphasis on supposedly, now) for an upcoming tween vampire movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel.

Anyhoo, here are the pics:

It took the movie crews one week to turn the house into what they wanted (complete with fake cactus as you can see in the background of the second photo) … and after the shoot, they converted the house back into what it was (but with new paint, etc). Overall, it was a pretty neat deal for the homeowners! Now, anyone want to rent my house for a movie shoot? :)


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  1. SenorMysterioso
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    careful you might get a few porn offers

  2. tombo
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    very cool!

  3. EP
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    where do I sign up?

  4. Ali S.
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    Alex, you might be able to get a part as a person walking in the background if you ask nicely! :)

    And I think SenorMysterioso is right about being careful. A friend of mine put his house up in ads for minor films and inadvertently started getting calls from...adult film makers. ;)

  5. CheeseDuck
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Ooh. What a nice fake cactus.

  6. violet
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Yeah, you don't want to do that unless you aren't really attached to your possessions or your house. My house was used for the movie "Heartburn" with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson many years ago, and some of the damage was not really fixable. You can't, say, just repaint a huge gouge in an heirloom piano.

  7. Some Boca Dude
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    Slightly off topic, but every time I hear or read "anyhoo" I want to stick sharp pencils in the palm of the hand of the person saying that.

  8. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    The cactus threw me for a moment. I was thinking rainy Pacific Northwest. It's been a while since I read the book!

    A couple years ago, the film "Deck the Halls" (with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick) was filmed nearby. They actually built the facades of the houses in a vacant lot! It was pretty amazing. They turned a grassy lot into an upscale cul-de-sac, complete with a paved street. It was during a heatwave, but they managed to make it look like the middle of winter. There was fake snow everywhere. What was even more amazing is that they removed everything when they were done, and the grassy lot is again a grassy lot. Movie magic...

  9. Alex
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    It's a good thing I'm nowhere near you, Some Boca Dude, or my palm would be full of holes.

    Anyhoo, I think these people only "rented out" the front of the house - so no damage to their possessions.

    @violet: ouch on the piano! I hope they compensated you for that.

  10. Rachel
    Jul 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    i HATE that series of books! thousands of stupid teenage girls are wandering around drooling over some vampire named edward. go read something with substance! oh well. they are probably the type of girls who wouldnt normally read anyway.

  11. Andrew32
    Jul 4th, 2008 at 12:30 am

    wow, that'd be really cool.

    looks like ya live in like Nevada or something.

  12. Alex
    Jul 4th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Southern California, actually - that cactus is a fake ;)

  13. Rosi
    Jul 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    THANK YOU RACHEL!
    I was about to say that... the books are dire and the film looks even worse. And the worst thing is every girl I've met who's read them seems to think they are the pinnacle of fiction! Twilight was voted the "best book of all time" by my school (note: my school is an all girl school except for the top two years), above great authors like Michael Morpurgo and Meg Rosoff (who also write teenage fiction).
    Everything written in that book is just a cliché... it read like fanfic written by a 13 year old with a slight fetish for vampires.
    It's pretty cool if your house is in a movie, but not one that's this bad!

  14. neenjha
    Jul 4th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Wow, I'm actually a pretty big Twilight fan, but I definitely don't run around squeeling over the characters all day long. Nice stereotyping. =\

  15. Tempscire
    Jul 4th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Rachel & Rosi--

    They can't possibly be worse than Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books.

  16. Brittany
    Jul 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    on the photos- awesome! I'd kill to be there to see this. i actually can't wait for the movie.

    and on the other comments - READ the books before you actually comment on them. And LEAVE these teen girls ALONE. Be glad they are actually reading in a time when technology rules the world. seriously, that are just books. they are good books to, if you like that type of stuff, which i do. both laurell and stephenie are amazing authors.

  17. violet
    Jul 5th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    You probably won't see this, Alex, but to answer your question, yes, they compensated my family well for everything, but at the end of the day (month) my mother judged it an unequivocal fail. Just not worth it.

  18. CheeseDuck
    Jul 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Eh. The books ARE pretty sucky. The plot is screwed up and the characters are just unrealistic.

  19. Suzie
    Jul 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    Wow bizarre- I just heard from my little sister that they used my former High School for that movie too. It's in the Pacific Northwest, and how anybody involved with film ever heard of itsy bitsy teeny Kalama, I will never know.

  20. gosh...thought-someone-better-could-be-edward-cullen
    Sep 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    I DO NOT like Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen. He's not as hot as the Edwrad described in Twilight. A TOTAL appointment for me when I first knew about it. I always thought that someone super hot will be Edward... but no - it's Robert Pattinson. Though, I have to admit that he does look quite vampire-ish. Such sharp and hard features, and that total sunken cheeks in the movie poster! But, stil not as hot as I imagine.

  21. AshleighJane
    Oct 5th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    thats being Renee's house in the film.
    :)

  22. Kirsten
    Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:18 am

    My house is right next door to this one. I got to watch them film some scenes, and they even gave me italtian ice! It was so awesome.

  23. Alex Duvall
    Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    hmmm Twilight is set in Washington, though. not many cacti there.....right?

  24. Ashrho
    Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    that has to be the house that her mom lives in because bellas supposed to be from Pheonix. that would make sense. very coool!

  25. Mario
    Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Yes, it was... I saw the movie last night and that house is where Bella lived in Phoenix, AZ before moving to Washington.

    That house appears two times in the movie.

  26. Elly.E
    Nov 24th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    I am from Phoenix and the area around that house did not look much like Arizona at all. Is it really Arizona or perhaps California?

  27. ^=^
    Dec 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    That indeed is the house. And not all readers are teenage girls, I happen to be a teenage boy. And I don't even write like this: "u r stopid."

    A-freaking-mazing, am I right?

  28. this.is.it
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    :)
    my best friend lives across the street, approximately 100 yards to the right of where you took these pictures, and i live a little down the ways.
    that would be here, up there, comment # 22.
    :)

  29. this.is.it
    Dec 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    her*, not here (:

  30. KimberlyChaotic
    Dec 10th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    That's really cool that you got to see their set and watch them film. It's almost like being in the movie. =)

    And as for people who are being stupid and bashing Twilight...get a life. Seriously. Just let the girls day dream. Its not their fault that Stephanie Meyer wrote a book that describes someone you can fall in love with. Edward is the vampire version of Mr. Darcy. Men like that are rare and in VERY short supply. So shut up and let them have their fun and raise their dating standards. =)
    At least they are reading and not being obsessed with technology now a days.

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