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10. The Inspiration Is All Too Real - Hostel

It’s reassuring to get to the end of a particularly gruesome horror film to remind yourself that it’s not real life, it’s all just a silly movie! Unfortunately, that’s not always true.

Hostel is one of the most infamous ‘torture porn’ type horrors out there, and it may upset you to know that director Eli Roth got his inspiration from a real life pay-to-kill organisation.

In an interview with Dread Central, Roth explained that a friend showed him a website where for $10,000 you could go to an organised location and shoot someone in the head. This particular site claimed that the would-be victims chose to do it, because they were going to die anyway and part of the fee would go to their struggling families - but there’s no doubt that there’s even worse sites out there.

There are plenty of rumours about ‘red rooms’ on the dark web and how you can pay to have someone torture a captive via live stream (none of these substantiated, mind, but they’re not totally unbelievable). So it is very possible that somewhere in the world, a real-life Hostel exists. No thank you!