If you ever seen Buffy hunting vampires, Lobster Day either Blade Runner, You will also have seen the ennis house, The famous construction of Frank Lloyd Wright. In those films, the property is used to represent a vampire mansion, a private residence and an department building, respectively. Designed by Wright in 1923 and built in 1924, the house has made more than 80 appearances on screen along its almost centenary of existence, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. However, it was the appearance of the house in House on Hainted Hill In 1959 the one that led her to Macabra acclamation.
«In a minute, I will show you the only really haunted house in the world,» he says in the movie Watson Pritchard, played by Elisha Cook JR, says in the film: «Since it was built a century ago, seven people – including my brother – have been killed in it.» The plot of the film follows five people who are promised 10,000 dollars to each if they can spend the whole night in the spooky property, which is «interpreted» by the ennis house.
«It is a very modern house, but with ancient forms,» says Michael Wyetzner, architect of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects, in the new episode of Blueprintsa YouTube series for AD. In the video, Wyetzner Draw the role of Ennis House in House on Hainted Hill, As well as that of five other properties that appear in horror films: «It does not have a very domestic scale, it almost seems that it could be a museum or other religious building,» he said.
Of course, although it is great, it was designed as a residential property. Located in the Los Angeles Happy neighborhood, Wright designed the house in the early 20s for Charles and Mabel Ennis, owners of a local clothing store for men. The house is one of the four that They use Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block system, Built with prefabricated and intertwined concrete blocks. Designed with a locked style, the house lacks curves, arches, vaults and domes, and is very inspired by Mayan architecture. Therefore, many have classified the house as a Mayan Renaissance.