THE VANISHING AT THE CECIL HOTEL is the first season in a new documentary series that deconstructs the mythology and mystery surrounding infamous locations in contemporary crime. 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.
Q-tips say: Not for Children. This is a good movie for Forensic personnel, officers of the law, to have a good long laugh. Mrs. Q says: Let’s NOT forget to mention the fact of the “internet idiots” who accuse and harass people of murder & accuse the LAPD of being involved & the “internet idiots” who try to solve a possible crime from their computers and DO NOT have all the facts.
Watch it or skip it? Depends.