But finally and most ruinously, there was the house. Hammer built his little pied a terre on 🔑 12.5 acres at 44896 Vista del Sol in the hills of Fremont, California, roughly 20 miles south and a thousand 🔑 light years away from the East Oakland neighborhood in which he grew up.

House began filming on 🔑 April 22, 1985. The first two weeks of production comprised shooting exteriors at the estate known today as Mills View, 🔑 a Victorian style home first built in 1887 and located on Melrose Avenue in Monrovia, California.