The real-life Saltburn manse has been plagued by influencers

Life imitates art, and unfortunately for the owner of Drayton House—the 127-room, fourteenth-century mansion that features heavily in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn—the same sort of riff-raff that groveled for entry in the film are now desperately trying to gain access to the grounds in real life. “I never envisaged the amount of interest there would be. It’s quite weird,” said Charles Stopford Sackville, whose family has owned the sprawling property in Lowick, England since the 18th century (via Daily Mail). “I don’t take it as flattering.”

In the film, Barry Keoghan plays a down-on-his-luck student who develops an unhealthy (to put it lightly) fixation on securing his place among the property and milieu of the upper-class Catton family (Jacob Elordi, Alison Oliver, Rosamund Pike, and Richard E. Grant). Now, a slew of influencers and other social media strivers are trying to do the same—so many that Sackville has had to ask staff to patrol the grounds constantly looking for trespassers.

While there is a public footpath running through the property, Sackville says staff have already caught “more than 50” “inquisitive” fans straying into the private sections of the estate, where some have taken photos or filmed videos of themselves dancing to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder On The Dancefloor,” the song used in the final scene of the film where Barry Keoghan prances around the house completely naked. (There aren’t any reports of influencers recreating this particular aspect, thankfully.)