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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
Travel writer Elaine Kalisher (Michele Greene) arrives at the Wessex Hotel in Los Angeles, California to write a story about the hotel for her travel magazine. She is warmly welcomed by the entire staff, except service department head Letti Gordon (Louise Fletcher), who is put off by her presence at the hotel and treats her coldly. | Travel writer Elaine Kalisher (Michele Greene) arrives at the Wessex Hotel in Los Angeles, California to write a story about the hotel for her travel magazine, the ''Traveler's Review''. She is warmly welcomed by the entire staff, except service department head Letti Gordon (Louise Fletcher), who is put off by her presence at the hotel and treats her coldly. | ||
During a trip in the service elevator, Elaine gets stuck between floors and witnesses a man being murdered on a floor with gaslights and Victorian furnishings; however, she hits her head and is knocked unconscious. When she awakens, the hotel staff are surrounding her and she is being cared for by the hotel doctor, Dr. Alan Lanier (James Brolin). None of them believe her story about a man being killed, but they eventually agree to call the police to investigate after Elaine sees a homeless man known as Peddler wearing the victim's unique cowboy boots. | During a trip in the service elevator, Elaine gets stuck between floors and witnesses a man being murdered on a floor with gaslights and Victorian furnishings; however, she hits her head and is knocked unconscious. When she awakens, the hotel staff are surrounding her and she is being cared for by the hotel doctor, Dr. Alan Lanier (James Brolin). None of them believe her story about a man being killed, but they eventually agree to call the police to investigate after Elaine sees a homeless man known as Peddler wearing the victim's unique cowboy boots. | ||
In the meantime, hotel guest Moselle Beecher, an | In the meantime, hotel guest Moselle Beecher, an elderly woman in town for a [[crystal]] convention, awakens in a bedroom on the mystery floor and is murdered by an unseen person with an axe while ragtime music plays on an old record player. | ||
Detective Madden (John Karlen) arrives and they search the hotel floor by floor, but are unable to find the location where Elaine claims to have witnessed the murder, having been confident it was on a floor with gaslights. During this search, a policeman remarks that the elevator does not go to the 13th floor due to superstition regarding the number 13. | Detective Madden (John Karlen) arrives and they search the hotel floor by floor, but are unable to find the location where Elaine claims to have witnessed the murder, having been confident it was on a floor with gaslights. During this search, a policeman remarks that the elevator does not go to the 13th floor due to superstition regarding the number [[13 (number)|13]]. | ||
Afterward, Elaine tracks down Peddler at a homeless encampment in the Belmont Tunnel, but he refuses to explain where he got his boots and threatens to smash her head in with a metal pipe if she does not leave. With this evidence, she convinces Detective Madden to visit the tunnel to question Peddler. However, Madden only finds a box filled with burned clothing. He considers the case closed and urges Elaine to quit bothering him. | Afterward, Elaine tracks down Peddler at a homeless encampment in the Belmont Tunnel, but he refuses to explain where he got his boots and threatens to smash her head in with a metal pipe if she does not leave. With this evidence, she convinces Detective Madden to visit the tunnel to question Peddler. However, Madden only finds a box filled with burned clothing. He considers the case closed and urges Elaine to quit bothering him. | ||
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During breakfast with Dr. Lanier, he suggests that Elaine check the hotel's furnace to see if the clothes were stolen from the garbage. While there, she witnesses Letti Gordon invite Peddler into the hotel for a meal, but despite running into the kitchen behind them, Peddler disappears, having been taken up to the 13th floor by Letti, who used a secret knob to cause the elevator to stop at the otherwise hidden floor. Peddler is murdered after Letti shoves him out of the elevator onto the floor. | During breakfast with Dr. Lanier, he suggests that Elaine check the hotel's furnace to see if the clothes were stolen from the garbage. While there, she witnesses Letti Gordon invite Peddler into the hotel for a meal, but despite running into the kitchen behind them, Peddler disappears, having been taken up to the 13th floor by Letti, who used a secret knob to cause the elevator to stop at the otherwise hidden floor. Peddler is murdered after Letti shoves him out of the elevator onto the floor. | ||
Elaine begins looking into the history of the hotel and discovers that in 1900, Avery Block, the leader of a [[Satanism|Satanic]] cult, took a fire axe from the wall and murdered 16 people seemingly at random. He believed he could achieve immortality by killing 16 people on the 13th floor of the Wessex because the 13th floor was a gateway to [[Hell]]. Block was never captured and after the murders, the hotel owner sealed the floor, going so far as to conceal its existence by constructing a decorative concrete frieze to cover the exterior windows around the outside of the building. | Elaine begins looking into the history of the hotel and discovers that in 1900, Avery Block, the leader of a [[Satanism|Satanic]] cult, took a fire axe from the wall and murdered 16 people seemingly at random. He believed he could achieve immortality through the use of [[ritual magic]] by killing 16 people on the 13th floor of the Wessex because the 13th floor was a gateway to [[Hell]]. Block was never captured and after the murders, the hotel owner sealed the floor, going so far as to conceal its existence by constructing a decorative concrete frieze to cover the exterior windows around the outside of the building. | ||
After Gail Myers from the city engineer's office mysteriously disappears, Elaine partners with Detective Madden to successfully access the hidden 13th floor by stopping the elevator between floors and climbing through the hatch in the ceiling. Madden is quickly murdered and Elaine is forced to flee into the hotel as she is pursued by the other cult members, including Letti. | After Gail Myers from the city engineer's office mysteriously disappears, Elaine partners with Detective Madden to successfully access the hidden 13th floor by stopping the elevator between floors and climbing through the hatch in the ceiling. Madden is quickly murdered and Elaine is forced to flee into the hotel as she is pursued by the other cult members, including Letti. | ||
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