For those interested in both a counterpoint and the inspiration for this, here is "Terror at the Red Wolf Inn", which I'm pretty sure inspired the writing of this episode. This was one of a series of C-movies I remember which must have had a $300 per market media buy (I only saw them advertised once in a span of weeks, and they were always in late night, after the evening news), and the tag line for this movie was: "At the Red Wolf Inn, they'll be glad to have you". These films would have been borderline-X not for sex but violence and gore*, so this shows how far (down) we've come. The RMT plays were frequently created not only in response to current events but also TV shows and movies of that era