{"id":4972,"date":"2021-02-22T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2021-02-23T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:51:27","slug":"buffalo-bills-house-from-silence-of-the-lambs-becomes-a-bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4972","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bill&#8217;s house from Silence of the Lambs becomes a B&#038;B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The real-life house that was used as Buffalo Bill&#8217;s residence in the movie &#8220;Silence of the Lambs&#8221; is about to become a B&amp;B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/silence-of-lambs-house-sells-10.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The dimly lit, wallpapered house, where Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine, inset) skins his victims in \u201cSilence of the Lambs,\u201d has sold for $290,000.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New York theatrical art director Chris Rowan purchased the home for $290,000 on January 28 and plans to convert it into a quaint bed and breakfast. The investment comes as the movie &#8220;Silence of the Lambs&#8221; turns 30 and a spinoff called &#8220;Clarice&#8221; begins on CBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides some minor renovations to handle guests, the most important renovation will be the infamous well in the basement where Hollywood\u2019s original psychopathic killer traps his victims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The filmmakers shot the basement scenes off-site (the house doesn\u2019t actually have a creepy hole in the basement) but the new owner reportedly plans to add one to give guests the full Buffalo Bill experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See and read more here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/17\/silence-of-the-lambs-house-to-become-a-bed-and-breakfast\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/17\/silence-of-the-lambs-house-to-become-a-bed-and-breakfast\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real-life house that was used as Buffalo Bill&#8217;s residence in the movie &#8220;Silence of the Lambs&#8221; is about to become a B&amp;B. New York theatrical art director Chris Rowan purchased the home for $290,000 on January 28 and plans to convert it into a quaint bed and breakfast. The investment comes as the movie &#8220;Silence of the Lambs&#8221; turns 30 and a spinoff called &#8220;Clarice&#8221; begins on CBS. Besides some minor renovations to handle guests, the most important renovation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4972\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1ic","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}