8 Horror Movies You Won’t Watch Once You Know The Truth

It might not completely put you off watching Eli Roth's Hostel - for the film itself, whilst wince-inducing, is actually pretty good - but the scary truth of Hostel is that the sort of sh*t you see in the movie really does go on in real life.

The concept for 2006's Hostel came to Roth after he'd discovered "murder vacations" online. Yes, very real people pay very real money to commit very real murder. As to how Roth ended up on a murder vacation website in the first place, who knows.

Being a torch bearer of what would become known as torture porn, the acts seen in Hostel certainly caused quite the ruckus amongst critics and fans, with many turned off by the sheer violence depicted in that '06 effort. Likewise, Slovakia and the Czech Republic launched scathing attacks on director Eli Roth for the negative vision the movie gave of these countries.

Still, that didn't stop Hostel being followed by two sequels, as the overarching narrative dived deeper on the Elite Hunting Club organisation at the centre of the franchise - an organisation that has some chillingly similar real world counterparts.

While this won't necessarily stop you watching the Hostel franchise again, it certainly puts an eerie new slant on any such rewatches when you know that what you're seeing play out could very well be happening elsewhere across the globe.