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Basically, a place of accommodation that kills its customers and robs their corpses. For unknown reasons, this turns up a lot in French literature/works set in France. Sometimes, to "get more bang for the buck," the proprietors will "serve" their guests as well. One wonders how these places advertise and attract guests/victims, other than the possible curiosity if rumors of their crimes are publicized. See also Hell Hotel and Inn Security, although in the latter, attacks on guests are generally not by the inn's owners. A less dangerous innkeeper is the Pilfering Proprietor, though he may also end up murdering his guests. If it is just impossible to leave (without any threats to your safety), and you stay forever because it's pleasurable, see Lotus-Eater Machine. |
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In the sequel Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, it's very much the exception for people to leave the hotel instead of the rule. A handful of thrillseekers seem to survive but most don't. Former guests are stuck in the hotel, never able to leave. | |
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Chained Echoes: The White Rose Inn, which seems to be an ordinary inn, but is actually run by a Mad Scientist that uses the place to abduct passing travelers so he can experiment on them, which almost always results in their deaths. | |
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High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World gives us a probably unique sympathetic example: due to cruel edicts driving them to poverty and starvation, a farming village has turned to this as their only way to survive. They know what they're doing is wrong, hate themselves for doing it, and confess when Shinobu confronts them. | |
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The hotel in Vacancy has owners who use the hotel to make films of their grisly murders. | |
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Parodied in Smax when he visits his homeworld that lampoons fairytale tropes. The health department won't let the innkeeper charge any higher because Robyn's room has a pea under her mattresses and the innkeeper will come in to Smax's room and stretch him if he's too short or cut him if he's too tall like in the Theseus myth mentioned below. | |
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A two parter in the Dazzle anime features one of these. | |
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In Cthulhu Saves the World, the party goes to sleep in Innsmouth Inn. Just as expected from what work this game references, Cthulhu and his party get attacked by villagers. However, Cthulhu proves why he's the Trope Namer for Do Not Taunt Cthulhu and thoroughly thwacks them. If Cthulhu's quote is any indication, they do that to every outsider, but he didn't expect them to turn on against him. As it turns out, Dagon commanded them to attack Cthulhu, and so he heads out to teach him a lesson. | |
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Looney Tunes: Chuck Jones seemed to really like this trope. Porky Pig and Sylvester check into a hotel full of murderous mice in the short Claws for Alarm. In The Wearing of the Grin, Porky checks into a hotel run by leprechauns who torment him with a trial- and then with shoes that force him to do an Irish jig and set off a Disney Acid Sequence- because they think he's after their gold. The Transylvania 6-5000 has another kind of gloomy edifice that in a twist becomes for all intents and purposes a hospitality area, a vampire's castle from which there is expectedly no return, but when Bugs Bunny mistakes it for a hotel said vampire who naturally plans to suck his blood plays along and christens it a hotel. |
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Breath of Fire II has the Wildcat Cafe, in which you are politely instructed to discard your equipment, pick up your utensils and season yourself liberally, culminating in a fight with the chef after a trip across a hot grill. Partly subverted in that the Wildcat Cafe is happy to serve patrons who are strong enough to fight their way in. They serve everybody else, too... | |
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The motel Taz and Bushwacker Bob stay at in the Taz-Mania episode "A Midsummer Night's Scream". | |
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Motel Hell, in which the owner and his sister make sausages out of the guests. | |
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The Bates Motel is parodied in Rocko's Modern Life. | |
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In the fifth series of Supernatural , a hotel sprung up in the middle of nowhere, which trapped tourists in order to feed them to the gods. The gods were there to discuss what to do about Lucifer's return. | |
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In A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die!, Col. Pembroke and his men encounter a family of seemingly religious homesteaders who invite them in to share a meal and stay the night. However, while searching the farm Will finds the body of the their missing member MacIvers in the barn with his throat cut. The amount of possessions stored in the barn indicate the fanily has been robbing and murdering travellers for some time. | |
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DuckTales (2017) features this in "House of the Lucky Gander!" Invited by Gladstone Gander to enjoy a taste of the good life, Scrooge, Donald, the triplets and Webby wind up at a luxurious hotel in Macaw, China. Said hotel doubles as a casino and features everything from exotic animals and water dancing to a buffet. Gladstone spends the majority of the episode hanging around Donald and encouraging him to play all of the games despite Donald's awful luck. Concluding that Gladstone wanted to make himself look good in front of his nephews, Donald tries to leave; when Gladstone tries to stop him, an ethereal shackle appears around his ankle. He reveals to the family that he cannot leave the inn because the owner is a vampiric spirit that feeds on his natural good luck. He was hoping Donald's bad luck would rub off so he could be free. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: The Stumbling Sabrecat Tavern in Fort Dunstad, Skyrim. The fact that it is located in a bandit fort could be enough of a warning; however, the bandits in the fort tend to keep to themselves when you approach and enter the tavern, only going aggro when you try to leave. If/when the fort is cleared and reoccupied by the military, soldiers put an end to this business and block the very entrance to the tavern with spiked barriers. | |
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The Ultra-Luxe Casino (which includes hotel facilities) is rumored to be this in Fallout: New Vegas. In reality, the only cannibals are Mortimer and a small group of his followers, who want to return the White Glove Society to its old customs. The rest are okay. | |
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Happens in "Rattle of Bones", one of the Solomon Kane short stories by Robert E. Howard. The Cleft Skull Tavern is run by a man who claims he was falsely imprisoned in the Karlsruhe dungeons. He now murders all travellers who stop at his inn as revenge on all men for his false imprisonment. Although, to be fair, perhaps the name The Cleft Skull Tavern should have been a bit of a warning. | |
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Practically every inn in Water Margin seems to murder and rob its customers at least some of the time. Given Grey-and-Gray Morality of the novel, several of these innkeepers are among the heroes of the story. | |
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Frontier(s) has one run by a family of cannibalistic neo-Nazis. | |
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A less ominous-sounding example, the second Sorcery! book has a place called the Wayfarer's Rest where you can stop over for a night. The owner won't drug you or anything, but he will strap you to a guillotine while you sleep, forcing you to either pull or release the cord attached to your wrist. Make the wrong choice and your adventure ends immediately, but the right choice will have you leaving without a hitch. | |
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In GeGeGe no Kitarō, Kitaro ends up as a mind-controlled servant of a Chinese Vampire who runs an inn like this. | |
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure module The Apocalypse Stone. The devil prince Moloch is following the players so he can get revenge on them. He has his minions slaughter everyone in an inn and then cast an illusion over the place so that when the party arrives everything looks normal. The minion in disguise offers the party food, mentioning the inn's special pork buns, and after they eat he asks if they want to stay the night. When they wake up in the morning they're all laying on beds of spikes and razors and when they come downstairs they see that the inn is a bloody mess. There is one table set with a tray of pork buns with a note on it that hints at exactly what was in the buns... | |
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The "DON'T GO INN" in Galaxy of Fear. Well, if you see the sign and don't leave within the day it's likely too late. The ground eats people; the whole planet sort of serves as the "inn". In this case the slow rate of very carefully concealed disappearances and the friendly Enzeem work to make sure a small but not insignificant number of people stop by. | |
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The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet: Crossing a sparsely populated forest on his journey to Sweden, Hallfred meets farmer Bjorn who straightaway invites him to stay with him for the night and behaves "most hospitable". In the night, Bjorn suddenly "thrust[s] a weapon into [Hallfred's] bed", but Hallfred, being suspicious of Bjorn, has already left his bed and drawn his sword, and thus kills Bjorn. Bjorn's wife and farmhands then try to frame Hallfred for murder, but eventually fail. | |
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Porky Pig and Sylvester check into a hotel full of murderous mice in the short Claws for Alarm. | |
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The Hostel films take this trope and just roll with it. | |
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The eponymous Bates Motel. | |
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The Gilman Hotel in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, as Jack discovers the owner is a serial killer who tortures his guests to death and eats them, and has a back office full of body parts. | |
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The House of Yesterday's Tomorrow serves as this in Tangled: The Series during a 3-episode arc and the innkeeper is actually a servant for the Greater-Scope Villain. | |
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Psycho has the infamous Bates Motel. | |
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Played with in The Happiness of the Katakuris, where the innkeepers aren't trying to kill their guests. Everyone who stays dies, and it bothers the owners. | |
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Avernum: There's a house on an island in the middle of nowhere. When the party gets in, they are served food by invisible servants, and have beds prepared. If they agree to such treatment, rather than violently wreck the place on first sight, they wake up groggy and weak, for they only consumed illusions of food - to fight a horde of hungry spirit creatures. In Avernum 3: exploring further east than the quests provide any need to will bring your party to an isolated town that appears unpopulated and undisturbed, except for a sickly odor, difficult to identify. A single inhabitant welcomes you to his Inn. |
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The eponymous pub in the Jonathan Creek episode "Mother Redcap." A bit of a subversion though, as these were planned murders of specific individuals who the landlord had taken money to 'get rid of'. | |
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The "Sparrow's Inn" folktale is referenced in Touhou Project with Mystia Lorelei, a night sparrow youkai. People going through the forest are often struck with night-blindness, when they come across her grilled-lamprey stand she tells them her lampreys can cure this condition (lampreys having eight eyes, they actually were thought to heal blindness). Naturally, she's the one who caused the blindness in the first place (as seen in her boss battle, where she causes the visible screen to shrink to a small circle around the player) and just has to lift the curse after they give her money. | |
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Often operated by shapeshifting demons in Legend of the Five Rings, to the point where the Crab Clan have code words to warn each other without alerting the proprietors that they've been found out. | |
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Several examples in Ravenloft, notably how the Mindefisk sisters made their living. | |
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A variation of this occurs in Stardust, when the witch Lamia builds an inn out of magic for the express purpose of luring the heroine there so she can cut out her heart. Although she fails to kill her intended victim, she does kill and rob the only other patron who happens to show up at her inn that night; the party who was following them turns up the next morning to find the dead man naked in a bathtub, and no trace of the magical inn. | |
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One episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog features this, with the owner being Katz. | |
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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! has the EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL innkeeper who will have one of his goons rub you out, tie you up, and throw you in the basement if you try to check in. And if you escape and try to check in again, YOU ARE DEAD. | |
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One turns up in Jade Empire. With a slight twist- everyone apart from the cook is actually a mutant cannibal creature disguised by magic; they keep the human cook around to make things seem more "normal." | |
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The bar in From Dusk Till Dawn is really a feeding ground for vampires. | |
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In "Raven's Eyrie", the eponymous inn. Before Kane's raid, it used to be a popular caravanserai, however, as it turns out, not all of its customers survived the night. Its single rooms—for particularly wealthy guests, of course—had hidden entrances, while a tunnel leading to nearby river Cotras provided convenient means of getting rid of the bodies. And the disappearances could always be blamed on bandits, like Kane. | |
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The Rusty Lake Hotel from the Cube Escape series invites 5 guests to the hotel for a week. It is your job to make sure they are properly "served" during their stay. | |
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The Bone Chillers book, "Welcome to Alien Inn". Said inn is a front used by hostile Plyomith Aliens to abduct human guests before performing a Kill and Replace to infiltrate human society. | |
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CSI: "Check In and Check Out" features a modern take on the trope, with a particular room in a sleazy motel where five brutal murders take place in a space of weeks. It turns out the voyeuristic owner has been dosing the guests in that particular room with LSD to observe the results, which are often fatal. | |
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The Criminal Minds team went after a Bates-style serial killer in "Paradise". Played by Wil Wheaton of all people. So the ending of the episode has Wesley Crushed. | |
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There was one in Suikoden, but they were actually members of the resistance. Imagine their surprise when they accidentally poison the hero's party, which resistance leader Odessa is a member of. | |
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In The Sandman (1989) issue "The Hunt," the protagonist of the story-within-a-story stops for the night in an inn like this. He survives; it's heavily implied that the innkeeper doesn't. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Harfang was the castle of the Gentle Giants of the far north. The castle was ruled by a giant king and queen, and housed many giants and dogs. The giants of Harfang regularly consumed Narnians, including Humans and Talking beasts. Humans in particular formed a traditional part of the Autumn Feast as Man Pie, and were served between the fish and the meat. | |
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In Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo one of the antagonists, Caderousse, owns an inn of ill reputation. When he receives a diamond from the Count he immediately runs after a jeweler. The jeweler gives him money for the diamond, but has to spend a night in the inn due to bad weather. Caderousse, influenced by his greedy wife, decides to murder the jeweler, so he would have both the money and diamond. He succeeds, but in the ensued fight his wife gets murdered and later Caderousse gets caught. | |
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The Transylvania 6-5000 has another kind of gloomy edifice that in a twist becomes for all intents and purposes a hospitality area, a vampire's castle from which there is expectedly no return, but when Bugs Bunny mistakes it for a hotel said vampire who naturally plans to suck his blood plays along and christens it a hotel. | |
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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons features a large, remote inn in the mountains run by Zhu Bajie, where any unsuspecting guest is killed and made as stuffing to spice up the large roast pigs for the next guest to come along, all covered up by illusions. The protagonist and a demon hunter barely make it out despite being able to see through the illusions. | |
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Hell House LLC: The Abaddon Hotel is rumored to be one before it is abandoned years before the events of the film take place. In the sequel Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, it's very much the exception for people to leave the hotel instead of the rule. A handful of thrillseekers seem to survive but most don't. Former guests are stuck in the hotel, never able to leave. |
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In The Wearing of the Grin, Porky checks into a hotel run by leprechauns who torment him with a trial- and then with shoes that force him to do an Irish jig and set off a Disney Acid Sequence- because they think he's after their gold. | |
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Amphibia had an episode where the Plantars and Anne are nearly eaten by a bunch of Bullfrogs who operate a motel. | |
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In Spectral Stalkers, if, for some baffling reason you chose to spend a night in a place called the Inn of No Return, you risk getting drugged by the inn's keeper, who will murder you and sell your flesh to goblins for food. | |
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Sbirro's restaurant in mystery writer Stanley Ellin's short story "The Speciality of the House", also adapted as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. | |
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Fighting Fantasy have a few examples: In Spectral Stalkers, if, for some baffling reason you chose to spend a night in a place called the Inn of No Return, you risk getting drugged by the inn's keeper, who will murder you and sell your flesh to goblins for food. A less ominous-sounding example, the second Sorcery! book has a place called the Wayfarer's Rest where you can stop over for a night. The owner won't drug you or anything, but he will strap you to a guillotine while you sleep, forcing you to either pull or release the cord attached to your wrist. Make the wrong choice and your adventure ends immediately, but the right choice will have you leaving without a hitch. |
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