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Most people I got hyped on the idea that we were staying there. Were the cast and crew wary of staying there? Everyone has stories, but I was too busy saying, “Let’s shoot this! We have 17 days!” Sara Paxton would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was in the room with her. The dreams came back the first day I walked in. I have enough things bothering me, so a ghost’s not going to be my problem.īut, absolutely.
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The other things is, when you’re making a movie the experience is so traumatic.
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The thing is, one being a skeptic, I tend to not believe it as much. It’s weird that it happened that way.ĭid things continue to occur while you were shooting the film? So when we’re finishing the movie, I find out that the most haunted room in real life, is the room I picked to be the haunted room in the movie.
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No more thought went into it other than pure technical reasons. The only reason I picked the room that I picked to shoot in, was because it was big enough to do a dolly shot. That’s where the ghost stuff started in the hotel. The one story that is the most intriguing to me - In the film the most haunted room is the Honeymoon Suite. Everyone on crew has very vivid dreams every night, which is really strange.
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But I’ve definitely seen doors close by themselves I’ve seen a TV turn off and on by itself lights would always burn out in my room. Well I’m a skeptic so I don’t really buy it. When you say you witnessed some haunted happenings at the hotel, can you elaborate? Everyone that I sort of worked with in my 10 different part time jobs is kind of mixed up in these two characters. I’ve only had minimum wage jobs or directed movies.
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The vibe of the people who work there is very similar to the vibe of everywhere I’ve ever worked. I don’t know that the people that work there are that much like our characters, but they’re in the ballpark. Are they based on people you encountered at the hotel? I didn’t know that the people who work there day-to-day bear a striking resemblance to the two leads in the film. They let us back in and we moved very quickly. Then I thought, “Why not make a movie we lived?”The place let us be there before, so they were likely to let us do it again.
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I was trying to think of how to do it cheap. So I found it really charming and interesting. At the same time, the place doesn’t live up to it. The people who work there are in their twenties…part timers. But what was charming to me about it, was that it’s this mixture of a historic, perhaps haunted building and totally bad ’70s renovation. The staff at the hotel believe it’s haunted. It just started off kind of goofy, but it became this thing where most of the cast and crew started to think there was something up with the hotel. We would go and shoot this satanic horror movie nearby, but the weirder stuff would happen back at the hotel. It was the cheapest and nicest place we could find and about 25 minutes from our location. What happened was we were making my previous film “The House of the Devil,” and we were staying at this hotel called the Yankee Pedlar Inn because it was the best option to put the crew up. Well the hotel that inspired the film is actually in the film. Can you tell it for those who aren’t familiar? The story behind the reason you made “The Innkeepers” is almost as good (and scary) as the film itself.