Cecil hotel american horror story

10 February 2021, 16:59

American Horror Story's Hotel Cortez was partly based on Cecil Hotel.

Here's how they're linked.

Thanks to a new Netflix true crime documentary, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at Cecil Hotel, Google searches for the infamous Los Angeles' hostel are about to sky rocket. But beyond the real life tragedies that occurred there, did you know that it also served as inspiration for the main location of American Horror Story: Hotel?

The Hotel Cortez from AHS: Hotel was initially based on an actual hotel built by H.

H. Holmes in Chicago. Later known as the ‘Murder Castle’, the hotel was built specifically for Holmes to torture and dispose of the people he murdered, much like Evan Peters’ character James March.

However, Cecil Hotel did provide a lot of inspiration for the