Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

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."

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