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- Hostel is based on a real-life website offering people the chance to pay $10,000 to travel to Thailand and shoot someone in the head, with profits going to their families.
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Jan 27, 2020 · In an interview, Eli Roth discusses the very real inspiration of his 2005 torture-porn flick, Hostel: A "murder vacation" website out of Thailand.
- Blake Stimac
- What Inspired Hostel?
- One Hostel Character Was Real
- Slovakia Really Wasn’T Happy About Hostel
You might be relieved to learn that the idea of tourists being picked up around Europe to be tortured by rich sadists isn’t completely true – at least, not to our knowledge. That said, there is a grim nugget of truth in Hostel’s premise. Before making Hostel, Roth was talking to Ain’t It Cool News, and the conversation shifted to weird, effed up st...
Oli, an Icelander the main characters meet up with, is based on someone Eli Roth knew. While in Iceland doing some pre-production for Cabin Fever, Roth met someone named Eythor. He was an eccentric person, with his own business on top of doing Iron Man competitions and the such, so Roth wrote Oli for Eythor to play. “We went out, and he was insane,...
Despite being mostly fiction, Slovakia still didn’t love how it was depicted by Roth. People in the country took umbrage with all the corruption and lawlessness in Roth’s realisation. They wanted Slovakia to be seen as a nice, quaint place to visit, and not be lumbered with some horrific stereotypical view, like Transylvania from Bram Stoker’s Drac...
- Anthony Mcglynn
Sep 10, 2024 · As it happens, the Hostel movie was actually inspired by a creepy encounter Eli Roth had with a Thai website. Updated on September 10, 2024, by Arthur Goyaz: Hostel revolutionized the horror genre in the 2000s, improving techniques and tropes that were initially explored in its predecessor, Saw.
Jan 19, 2021 · The inspiration for the movie came from a disturbing real-life website. Roth was sent a link to a site based in Thailand, that claimed that for $10,000, customers could commit acts of murder.
- Dan Auty
Knowles then shared with Roth a Thai "murder vacation" website he came across on the dark web, where one could pay $10,000 to shoot someone dead. Knowles described the website as "the most disturbing thing I've ever seen."
Apr 9, 2016 · the premise for hostel came from a disturbing website. Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles told Roth about a website where you pay $10,000 to go to Thailand and shoot a stranger in the head...
