Miniseries · Investigation Discovery
Horror at the Cecil Hotel
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
William V. Ryder
Detective Salazar
3 eps
William Jousset
Detective Duffy
3 eps
Josh Dean
Self - Writer, 'Horror Story: Cecil Hotel'
3 eps
Hadley Meares
Self - L.A. Historian
3 eps
Joan Renner
Self - L.A. Crime Historian & True Crime Author
3 eps
Frank C. Girardot
Self - True Crime Author
3 eps
Gregg McCrary
Self - FBI Special Agent & Profiler
3 eps
Gil Carrillo
Self - L.A. County Sherriff's Dept.
3 eps
Sal LaBarbera
Self - LAPD Detective Supervisor
3 eps
Juliet Bennett Rylah
Self - Sr. Editor, LAist.com
3 eps
Vivian Lam
Elisa Lam
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Horror at the Cecil Hotel actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Horror at the Cecil Hotel reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
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...
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Where to watch
Streaming
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