Curbed.com is reporting that musician and horror film director Rob Zombie has purchased a Laurel Canyon house that combines midcentury and spooky in a beautiful way. According to OpenHouse, Zombie purchased the dark but lovely residence earlier this year. He paid just under $2.5 million.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom house was built in 1953 and designed by architect Robert Thorgusen. It's tucked away on a nearly 15,000-square-foot Hollywood Hills lot with a pool and an indoor/outdoor koi pond. The house features 14-foot ceilings, a crinkly roofline, and walls of glass, marketing materials say. The master suite has its own fireplace and clerestory windows. Many of the rooms look out to the richly landscaped yard, the work of renowned landscape architect Garrett Eckbo.

Read the full story and check out photos at Curbed.com.

Rob Zombie’s new horror movie, 31, will be officially released on September 16th.

From the visionary mind of the man who brought us House Of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects and Halloween comes the horrific story of five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween and held hostage in a large compound. At the mercy of their captors, they are forced to play a twisted game or life or death called 31. For the next 12 hours they must fight for their lives against an endless parade of homicidal maniacs.

According to Bloody Disgusting, after previously receiving an ’NC-17’ rating, it seems that enough alterations were made for the rating board to issue a more theater-safe ‘R’, although it’s still going to feature, “strong bloody horror violence, pervasive language, sexual content and drug use.”

31 stars Sheri Moon Zombie, Malcolm McDowell, Richard Brake, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jeff Daniel Phillips, and Meg Foster.