Ordinarily, selling a house which played a key role in a classic Hollywood film wouldn’t be an issue at all. The Sydney mansion from The Great Gatsby? The almost mansion from Home Alone? Or Greystone Mansion, the Beverly Hills manor that has been used in The Big Lebowski, There Will Be Blood and The Muppets?

You’d be laughing.

But this ain’t no ordinary house.

The place in question is a four bedroom, two-storey, wooden house in Layton Pennsylvania, made famous as the hideout for Buffalo Bill, the warped serial killer from the Academy Award-winning film Silence of the Lambs.

The house has been on the market since 2015 and the owners have had trouble finding a buyer, dropping the price from $US300,000 to $US250,000 in early 2016.

(The price is still a cool $US100,000 more than the average Pennsylvania house price of $US150,000).

Owners Scott and Barbara Lloyd have lived there since the 1970s and allowed director Jonathan Demme to shoot the 1991 feature there, but have been looking to downsize.

The problem, apparently, is that people are a little too creeped out to buy the place.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has talked about buying the house – and turning it into an ’empathy museum’, “where people can wear the skins of abused animals”.

Yes, that story is completely true. And yes, it is probably not the weirdest thing involving wearing skin that has happened in the house.

Despite being the second-most clicked item on Realtor.com since 2015, still the house hasn’t sold (although at least people aren’t throwing pizzas on their roof – that’d be really annoying).

With the US housing market what it is, this is your chance to get it for a steal! Although waiting a year or so to buy it after Donald Trump becomes president and the country goes into serious financial meltdown might actually be the smarter approach, investment wise.

But just imagine how much fun you would have, getting your mates over and setting up some strategically placed mirrors to play a round of ‘tuck‘!

Is it summer time and you need to cool down? Get your soon-to-be-ex wife to climb down the stony pit and you can play with the hose!

At night, turn off the lights and watch all your buddies stumble around while you follow them in your night-vision goggles. What a hoot!

Imagine how popular your barbecues will be when you jump out and scare your guests wearing only your homemade skin suit! What fun!

Or if you aren’t so inventive, you could just amuse your friends and neighbours by reeling off endless quotes from the movie while walking around the place where they were actually said.

“It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again!”

What a riot for you, your buddies and your little dog Precious.

And if you are reading this without having seen the movie, then perhaps you are the ideal target market for the property. Considering the country vibes, endless space and rustic charm, it would actually be quite the place to settle down and raise some kids.

Just make sure none of them ever see the movie. Ever.