Tyler was legitimately terrified on set. "That's what is so real about The Strangers," she said. "Like, you'd be in bed at night trying to relax, and all of a sudden you hear a noise and you go, 'What was that!' And you wonder, are you brave enough to go check or not? Imagine if you went to look, and there's a person in a mask standing in your living room with a butcher knife!"
Laura Margolis, who played the "Pin-Up Girl" torturer, revealed that she had been specifically instructed not to tell Tyler see her without the mask prior to shooting: "She didn't want to have to fake it, and so it was my responsibility to really scare her."