Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
2021 · Miniseries · TV-MA · 54 min · ★ 7.0 · 53% critics
This true-crime miniseries explores the disappearance of a hotel guest at the infamous Cecil Hotel and the online obsession that followed. It mixes the case itself with the hotel’s dark reputation and the flood of speculation that turned a tragedy into a wider story about internet sleuthing.
Also known as Crime Scene The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
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Streaming on Netflix.
4 hours to watch · 4 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-02-10
- Network
- Netflix
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 54 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 53/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (375 votes)
About
You might like this if you’re drawn to internet-age true crime and unsettling mystery stories like Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, but Not for you if dragged-out pacing and heavy focus on online speculation will annoy you.
Pros: intriguing real case; eerie hotel backdrop; some factual context | Cons: too much speculation; slow, stretched pacing; frustrating web sleuth focus
Themes
- hotel
- miniseries
- los angeles, california
- true crime
- reenactment
- drowned
- elevator
Cast & crew
Artemis Snow
as Elisa Lam (voice)
- VC
Viveca Chow
as Elisa Lam Recreation
Pablo C. Vergara
as Self
Tom Scorzone
as Detective
- JD
Josh Dean
as Self - Journalist
- GK
Greg Kading
as Self - LAPD Homicide Detective
Directed by Joe Berlinger
Created by Joe Berlinger
Episodes1 season · 4 episodes
Season 14 episodes
- S1E1Lost in Los Angeles54mNetflix
- S1E2Secrets of the Cecil54mNetflix
- S1E3Down the Rabbit Hole54mNetflix
- S1E4The Hard Truth54mNetflix