Freddy Krueger haunted this house -- and it just sold for nearly $3 million

(CNN)The Los Angeles location champion known arsenic the abode of Nancy Thompson successful "A Nightmare connected Elm Street" has been sold for $2.98 million.

Don't fto the sunny facade fool you -- fearfulness fans cognize this location well. It's a agleam spot of the shady, tree-lined Elm Street and, astir notably, the hunting crushed for 1 striped sweater-wearing killer.

Or it was, arsenic the focal constituent of the deed "A Nightmare connected Elm Street." Freddy Krueger haunted this location successful the archetypal film, invading a young Thompson's dreams, though off-camera, it belonged to Los Angeles suburbanites and astatine slightest 1 filmmaker.

And now, it's been fixed a caller beingness again -- the iconic location conscionable sold for astir $3 million, according to Realtor.com, wherever the location was listed. (And, according to the site, that's astir 98% much costly than adjacent homes, a stat that would spook adjacent Freddy.)

The three-bedroom Dutch Colonial got a large facelift successful the years since Wes Craven's 1984 movie was released, though its exterior remained the same. But the remainder of the location was "reimagined by an English decorator successful the mid-2000s," truthful it's brighter, whiter and airier than the celebrated movie monster would've liked. All egregiously '80s flourishes person been replaced -- and the door, erstwhile blood-red, is present painted a stately black.