Den virkelige historie, som inspirerede Hostel, er lige så uhyggelig som filmen
Her er historien, som inspirerede Eli Roth til at lave filmen!
Hostel er en af 00'ernes helt store splattergyser-film, som blev skabt af Eli Roth. Selve filmen fokuserer på et par drenge på backpacktur på Europa, hvor de i Slovakiet kommer på et hostel med utroligt attraktive kvinder - det viser sig dog, at de blot lokker mændene i en fælde til et stort netværk af folk, som betaler penge for at torturere turister.
Heldigvis var det jo fiktion - eller var det?
Eli Roth har udtalt, at ideen fra filmen faktisk kommer fra hans personlige oplevelse med en bestemt hjemmeside.
Han fortæller følgende:
"It started with a conversation with Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles. Harry and I were talking about sick stuff we'd seen on the Internet, like that the guy in Texas who set it up so you could control a gun and hunt lions and wild game online. The FBI had shut this guy down. I think his legal defence was that he was making it so handicapped people could hunt, too. It was so fucked up.
I thought, 'Jesus. Why wouldn't they just put a human being in a room?' and Harry said, 'Well, actually I found something like that' and he sent me a link to a site where you could go to Thailand and for $10,000, walk into a room and shoot somebody in the head."
Say what?
Roth fortæller om hjemmesiden, som ellers fortæller dig, at de mennesker, som du så får mulighed for at dræbe, faktisk har meldt sig til frivilligt - og at det skyldes, at de har brug for at forsørge deres familie. 'Offeret' ville alligevel dø i den fattige familie, så han kunne lige så godt forsørge familien.
Fuck!
Roth overvejede, om han skulle lave en dokumentar om konceptet, men frygtede alligevel konsekvenserne:
"The site itself was real, but you had to give credit card information, and I was at the point where I wanted to do a documentary about it, and it's like, to get any further I would have had to give personal information and I figure these people kill people for a living, I'm not gonna find out."
Det er nok der, det er bedst at holde sig væk fra disse hjemmesider - har man i virkeligheden lyst til at finde ud af det?
