Que Sera, Sara? The Innkeepers' Sara Paxton Talks Horror and Comedy

What's scarier - a genuinely haunted set or a sick costar? You might be surprised...

In Ti West's latest slow-burn suspense horror The Innkeepers, Sara Paxton plays a bored hotel employee whose life gets much more interesting when evil spirits become apparent. In real life, the hotel may have actually been haunted, and as she tells it, there was never a dull moment.

GCD: What has the transition been like from family comedies to so many horror movies?

SP: When I did The Last House on the Left, I was really excited to do something to break me out of teen comedy, and I did. And now all I do are horror movies! Then I do this movie, and people are like, "Oh, you're funny!" and I'm like, "Yeah, I did comedies before this one!" People don't remember that. I always like to switch it up.

GCD: You stayed in the actual inn while you shot - was it as strange as it appeared?

SP: Weird stuff would happen there. My doors would just violently fly open, out of nowhere, in the middle of the night when the windows were closed. My TV would go on and off, the phone would ring and nobody would be there. The only way to call those phones was through the front desk, but nobody was at the front desk. It was odd.

GCD: What scares you in real life?

SP: Vomit and cockroaches are my two phobias, like, I can't even think about them. Me and Ti actually have that same vomit phobia - when we met and I told him about it, he went, "Me too!"

The Innkeepers can be viewed in the safety of your own home On-Demand; it opens in select theaters next Friday. Investigate our full interview with Sara Paxton first!

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