HUBERT: Is that bigger than The House of the Devil? HUBERT: What was your budget like this time around? I had a very specific color palette for the movie, so just made sure we stayed within that. WEST: We changed it a lot, but if you walked in there today, you would think we changed nothing.
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HUBERT: How much did you change the look of the place? Does it look in the movie exactly as it does in real life? But I convinced her to come stay one night, she did, and it was fine. I got a call from her agent, saying, “Sara doesn’t want to stay at the hotel.” I overhyped it. What I didn’t realize was that I scared the shit out of her. I told her we were going to live and shoot in the hotel, and it’s really haunted, I showed her pictures. I remember Sara Paxton, when I met her I tried to get her so psyched for the film. We all kind of rolled our eyes, because most of the same crew was coming back. It’s a funny place, because it’s this weird mixture of 1800s, historic architecture, and bad 1970s renovation, everyone who works there is in their 20s. I don’t believe in ghosts, but the closest I’ve ever come is staying at The Pedlar. WEST: Yes, but it’s not a scary place-it’s a kooky place. HUBERT: When you went back to The Yankee Pedlar to make The Innkeepers, was anybody hesitant to go back? It would be like if you wrote a movie about a real person, not based on them, and they were like, “I don’t want to be in it.” It can’t be someone else’s movie. Think we could go back?” Then I realized: if she says no, this is scrapped. The thing is, I wrote the movie very quickly, and I called Pete, the producer, and was like: “Dude, I wrote this movie about the Pedlar. HUBERT: How receptive initially were the people who owned the hotel? What if I just wrote that one? What if we went back, how weird would that be?
Everyone was convinced it was haunted, the whole town thinks it’s haunted, the place is really kooky-when I decided I wanted to make a ghost movie, I was like, whoa: we lived one. We were making this Satanic horror movie in the middle of nowhere, but weirder stuff was going on back at the hotel. When we were making The House of the Devil, we stayed at the Yankee Pedlar, because it was a cheap place to stay. HUBERT: Wasn’t The House of the Devil shot nearby? Interview sat down with West to talk about the haunted location of the film, working with a tight budget, and making a horror movie for people who don’t like horror movies.ĬRAIG HUBERT: Where did you shoot The Innkeepers? But when a former actress and amateur spiritualist rents a room at the inn, the ghosts that haunt the halls become frighteningly real. Armed with a video camera, audio equipment, and a website to document their research, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) half-heartedly seek out the spirits walking among them. When they’re not drinking beer or being annoyed by the employee at the coffee shop next door, they’re amateur ghost hunters.
In a sleepy New England village, two bored teenagers sit behind the desk of the Yankee Pedlar, a small, quiet, soon-to-close inn. ABOVE: SARA PAXTON (LEFT) AND PAT HEALY IN A STILL FROM THE INNKEEPERS, COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES
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