Aka The Elevator; aka Haunted Hotel
Lily arrives for her first shift as the night manager at a hotel. Instead of training on how the hotel works, she’s immediately shown her room which has multiple bunk beds. You’d assume it’s staff dorm, except the only other staff member we see has a different room.
The hotel is odd. The guest rooms also have multiple bunk beds, which seems like a really bad business decision. The boiler is not in the basement, but on an upper floor. Then there are the strange permanent residents and a history of guests dying in the hotel.
Lily is more concerned with investigating the most recent death than in doing her job. She constantly leaves the front desk to look into what happened. I guess that’s not a big deal since no one seems to stay there. Plus Lily has no training so she has idea how to check someone in or charge them for their room.
There is security footage of the last person who died. She was playing the elevator game so Lily tries to play it too, but caretaker Zack catches her. We’re told Zack has been the caretaker for ages so you’d think he’d be close to retirement, but he appears to be in his twenties.
While the hotel has 14 floors, they only let guests go to the 7th floor. Lily’s room has several leaks in the ceiling so I thought she was staying on the top floor, but that’s not the case. Aside from the residents, the only guests we see are some influencers who are staying there due to the deaths in the hotel and are shooting some footage for a video. It does not go well for them.
This is a slog to get through. It’s slow paced and not much happens. Lily is mostly expressionless and glassy eyed. The demon is a man in a rubber suit which was used in other movies by the same filmmaker.
The name on the title screen does not match the cover |
Why does he have a photo of the new manager hidden in his book? |
Why does the hotel have bunk beds? |
Oh joy, we’ve got some influencers |
She can only see ghosts through her cell phone |
The most inefficient use of space in a diary entry |
Brilliant investigating |