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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • 55m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
21K
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POPULARITY
3,878
3,988
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)
For nearly a century the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles has been linked to some of the city's most notorious activity, from untimely deaths to housing serial killers. In 2013 college student Elisa Lam was staying at the Cecil when she vanished, igniting a media frenzy and mobilizing a global community of internet sleuths eager to solve the case. Lam's disappearance, the latest chapter in the hotel's complex history, offers a chilling and captivating lens into one of LA's most nefarious settings.
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College student and tourist Elisa Lam vanishes, leaving behind all of her possessions in her hotel room. The Cecil Hotel grows in infamy.College student and tourist Elisa Lam vanishes, leaving behind all of her possessions in her hotel room. The Cecil Hotel grows in infamy.College student and tourist Elisa Lam vanishes, leaving behind all of her possessions in her hotel room. The Cecil Hotel grows in infamy.

  • Stars
    • Tim Marcia
    • Amy Price
    • Greg Kading
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    21K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,878
    3,988
    • Stars
      • Tim Marcia
      • Amy Price
      • Greg Kading
    • 765User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: The Cecil Hotel Manager
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: The Cecil Hotel Manager
    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: Who Was The Real Elisa Lam?
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: Who Was The Real Elisa Lam?
    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: Who Was The Real Elisa Lam?
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: Who Was The Real Elisa Lam?
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: Season 1
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel: Season 1
    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel (Spanish/Spain Trailer 1 Subtitled)
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel (Spanish/Spain Trailer 1 Subtitled)
    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel (German Trailer 1 Subtitled)
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    Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel (German Trailer 1 Subtitled)

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    Tim Marcia
    Tim Marcia
    • Self - LAPD Homicide Detective (Ret.)
    • 2021
    Amy Price
    Amy Price
    • Self - Former Cecil Hotel Manager
    • 2021
    Greg Kading
    Greg Kading
    • Self - LAPD Homicide Detective (Ret.)
    • 2021
    Josh Dean
    Josh Dean
    • Self - Journalist
    • 2021
    John Lordan
    John Lordan
    • Self - YouTuber
    • 2021
    John Sobhani
    John Sobhani
    • Self - Web Sleuth
    • 2021
    Kim Cooper
    Kim Cooper
    • Self - LA Historian, Esotouric
    • 2021
    Santiago Lopez
    Santiago Lopez
    • Self - Former Cecil Hotel Employee
    • 2021
    Doug Mungin
    Doug Mungin
    • Self - Skid Row Historian
    • 2021
    Kenneth Givens
    Kenneth Givens
    • Self - Former Cecil Resident
    • 2021
    Viveca Chow
    Viveca Chow
    • Elisa Lam
    • 2021
    Artemis Snow
    Artemis Snow
    • Elisa Lam
    • 2021
    Jim McSorley
    Jim McSorley
    • Self - Detective Sergeant, Los Angeles
    • 2021
    Steve Gamble
    Steve Gamble
    • Websleuth
    • 2021
    Judy Ho
    Judy Ho
    • Forensic Neuropsychologist…
    Jason Tovar
    Jason Tovar
    • Self - Forensic Pathologist
    • 2021
    Michael Baugh
    Michael Baugh
    • Self - Cecil Hotel Guest
    • 2021
    Sabina Baugh
    Sabina Baugh
    • Self - Cecil Hotel Guest
    • 2021
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    forepsyt

    Ruined by conspiracy narcissists

    Title says it all, good production and a tragic tale ruined by including a bunch of nobodies who use YouTube to promote their bizarre ideas for likes and subscriptions. Completely disrespectful to the victim and the family.
    6jkidd-27447

    I'm concerned

    Someone seriously needs to check out the dude from that web Schume that is talking about Elisa like he knows her. The guy literally made someone go to a grave site to touch her gravestone for him and talked about her legacy like she was Kobe Bryant. Got bless her and rest her soul but some of these people for some real issues to have the time to act like their going thru this case like they were concerned for her when really it seems more like they used her story for clickbate and watch time. Was the story unique and intriguing, yes but these people must have ALOT of time on their hands to do all they did like they knew her.
    4jenniferwarnock

    Too Many Whiny YouTubers-Not Enough True Forensics

    Am very much interested in the subject matter, and the history surrounding the Cecil hotel. I really enjoyed the interviews with the hotel employees, but I was hoping to learn more about the actual forensic investigation. Yes, LAPD is a part of this documentary, but the YouTuber angle, ughh. Whiny, unhelpful, and super bloated. They literally added nothing of true value to the investigation. Zilch. Also, if you're any kind of traveler, investigate the property, the surroundings in the environment of where you're going! How do people travel, especially internationally, not do this?!?
    4jordyncoxx

    Netflix will never learn

    Will Netflix ever learn that their true crime documentaries don't need to be 4 hours long? Even the Night Stalker felt long & drawn out when that spanned years. Apart from the elevator footage & uncovering the body, what else really happened?? And who are these nut jobs who don't even know Elisa but are behaving like they lost a love one & going to the crime scene 10-20 times. Finding internet fame over the death of someone else doesn't sit right with me. I feel like Buzzfeed Unsolved did a better episode on the Cecil Hotel. Save some time & watch that instead.
    4ShaunV1990

    Too long with too much unrelated information

    I will keep my review short. The story about the vanishing speaks to everybody's imagination. But the story is pretty straightforward, this is coming from somebody who has been working in psychiatry whole his life. She was bipolar and suffered clearly from a psychosis. I work with these people on a daily base. Yes, it can be so bad, people would bring themselves in strange situations. In that way 4 episodes is just too much for a story that could have been told in 2 episodes (at most).

    I found this documentary much more interesting in another aspect. The way 8 years ago fake news was invented by stupid people on the internet just blowing their mind on things they have absolutely no knowledge about. I was heavily triggered by the youtubers/influencers claiming one stupid theory after the other. On the way almost destroying a young musician life. This is still the dark side of the internet and it saddens me to see where we are at almost a decade later.

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      The Hotel Cecil was partly the inspiration for the Hotel Cortez in American Horror Story: Hotel.
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      Featured in WhatCulture Horror: 10 Horror Movies That Eerily Came True (2021)

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    • Release date
      • February 10, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Netflix
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
    • Production companies
      • Imagine Documentaries
      • RadicalMedia
      • Third Eye Motion Picture Company
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