Summaries

A disgraced reporter investigates an abandoned luxury hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared sixty years earlier.

The film starts out when five people walk into an elevator, but something goes very wrong. The elevator collapses eleven floors and the five people roam around the hotel as ghosts. Sixty years later, reporter Buzzy (Steve Guttenberg) and his niece, Anna (Kirsten Dunst) are trying to find out the mystery of the hotel. An old lady named Abigail tells them that if they find a belonging of each person on the elevator they will be free from the hotel.—Cory Thompson

This Disney made-for-TV film has Steve Guttenberg as a tabloid reporter who wants to write legitimately again. He investigates an old woman's story behind the famous disappearance of five including a beloved child actress that occurred at the Hollywood Hotel in the 1930s. Everyone says the Hollywood Hotel is haunted now, and when Guttenberg explores it, he finds out why.—Samuel Stoddard

Details

Keywords
  • sister sister relationship
  • black magic
  • based on theme park attraction
  • hotel
  • elevator crash
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • Family
Release date Oct 25, 1997
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Unrated
Countries of origin United States
Official sites Official site
Language English
Filming locations Disney-MGM Studios - 351 South Studio Drive, Bay Lake, Florida, USA
Production companies Walt Disney Television Zaloom Mayfield Productions

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 29m
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

Synopsis

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