Classic Horror-Movie Towns Where Homes Aren’t Frightfully Expensive

On the silver screen, these rural hamlets and quiet woodlands served as the unsettling backdrops for cursed witches, possessed children, and machete-wielding psychos. In real life, however, horror cinema’s most notorious filming locations tell a far more welcoming story—one anchored by tight-knit communities, preserved landscapes, and surprisingly accessible home prices.Just in time for Halloween, this is what it actually costs to plant roots in the real-world towns behind classics such as "The Blair Witch Project," "Friday the 13th," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."In these towns made famous by classic horror movies, the local scenery is breathtaking, the neighbors are friendly, and the housing markets are anything but a nightmare.'The Blair Witch Project': Burkittsville, MD Median home price: $539,974 (Frederick County)Median income: $93,250Population: 142Picture this, three students hike into the mountains behind Burkittsville, MD, to shoot a documentary about a local myth called the Blair Witch, and they're never seen again except in the terrifying footage they leave behind. That was the premise of the 1999 sleeper hit "The Blair Witch Project," which put tiny Burkittsville o...