Is AHS: Hotel Inspired by the Creepy History of the Cecil Hotel?
LatestDuring a panel at the Television Critics’ Association press tour, American Horror Story co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk revealed new information about Hotel, the horror anthology’s upcoming fifth season.
The story will take place in downtown Los Angeles, at the fictional Hotel Cortez. Via EW, Murphy described the real-life inspiration for the new season. “There was a surveillance video that went around two years ago that showed a girl getting into an elevator in a hotel that was said to be haunted and she was never seen again,” he said. If that sounds familiar, Murphy may have been alluding to the story of the Elisa Lam, the 21-year-old Canadian woman whose dead body was found in a water tank at downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel in 2013.