Horror At The Cecil Hotel

Horror At The Cecil Hotel
TV Show · Crime · Documentary

Not long after the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles opened in 1924, a guest committed suicide in one of its rooms, beginning a decades-long string of murders, suicides or otherwise unexplained deaths on the property. Is it a mere coincidence or is there an underlying force that ties together the spooky, sinister incidents? That's the question examined in this investigative docuseries, which plays out like a true-crime story with a supernatural bent. It delves into three unexplained events, including perhaps the most compelling -- that of Canadian college student Elisa Lam, who suspiciously drowned in the hotel's water tank in 2013.

2017 · 43m
Starring Sal LaBarbera, Hadley Hall Meares, Joan Renner
Director Leland Krane

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    The Night Stalker
    The infamous Cecil Hotel has seen its share of death, but it has also harboured violent killers. While staying at the hotel, intrepid journalist Jack Unterweger is hot on the trail of serial killer Richard Ramirez.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 2
    The Girl In The Water Tank
    Canadian tourist Elisa Lam goes missing after checking into the Cecil Hotel, becoming the latest victim in a long line of murders, suicides and unexplained deaths at Los Angeles' most notorious hotel.
    44 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Intertwined
    In 1962, an older man and a young woman are found lying in a pool of blood on the sidewalk outside the Cecil Hotel, and, to investigators, it looks as though they both fell or were pushed out of a ninth-floor window.
    44 min

Related

  • The Curse Of Lizzie Borden
  • The Hillside Strangler
  • Ghost Adventures: Cecil Hotel
  • The Jinx

Cast & Crew

  • S‌L
    Sal LaBarbera
    Actor
  • H‌H
    Hadley Hall Meares
    Actor
  • J‌R
    Joan Renner
    Actor
  • L‌K
    Leland Krane
    Director
  • T‌B
    Tim Baney
    Producer
  • Michael Bay
    Producer
  • S‌E
    Shirley Escott
    Producer
  • L‌D
    Lorraine DiRienzo
    Writer

About

Horror At The Cecil Hotel

Crime

Not long after the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles opened in 1924, a guest committed suicide in one of its rooms, beginning a decades-long string of murders, suicides or otherwise unexplained deaths on the property. Is it a mere coincidence or is there an underlying force that ties together the spooky, sinister incidents? That's the question examined in this investigative docuseries, which plays out like a true-crime story with a supernatural bent. It delves into three unexplained events, including perhaps the most compelling -- that of Canadian college student Elisa Lam, who suspiciously drowned in the hotel's water tank in 2013.

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Studio
Investigation Discovery
Released
2017
Rated
12
© 2017 Discovery Communications Inc.

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