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The location is loosely based on the Cecil Hotel, marked by deaths and tragedies.

As for the Hotel Cortez, it takes inspiration from another real life horror story, that of the Cecil Hotel. This real Los Angeles hotel opened in 1927, a year after March opened the Hotel Cortez, and it has a history of violence, death and mystery.