Sure, Norman Bates and his mother's motel of murder has set the bar high for creepy guesthouse gorefests - but real life has got some equally nasty surprises in store...
Check out 5 creepy hotel horrors worse than Bates' Motel...
1. H.H. Holmes' Horror Hotel
Hotel: The Castle, Chicago
Date: Apprehended November 17, 1894
H.H. Holmes seemed nothing more than an eccentric business man - until the hotel he'd erected to cash in on tourist trade for the Chicago World Fair turned out to be a grisly labyrinth of horrors. Holmes employed several different builders and architects so that only he would know the true layout of his murderous hotel, including rooms designed to asphyxiate their occupants, secret passages and corpse-disposal cellars...