Buffalo’s Bill house from the Oscar-winning 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs has been put up for sale.

The Pittsburgh property, known as the site where the fictional serial killer kept his lotion-smothered kidnap victim, is a three-storey Victorian house that’s selling at $300,000 (£192,000). It boasts four bedrooms, a pool and a garage that fits four cars.

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, the house was purchased by a couple in the 1970s who were approached in 1989 to ask if their house could be used in the hit film. The film-makers shot the exterior as well as the foyer and dining room.

“They were looking for a home in which you entered the front door and had a straight line through,” home-owner Barbara Lloyd said. “They wanted it to look like a spider web, with Buffalo Bill drawing Jodie Foster into the foyer, into the kitchen, then into the basement.”

Diane Wilk is the estate agent looking after the property and she believes its notoriety could be a major selling point.

“People love to be scared,” she said. “I could see somebody doing something fun with this.”