But of course, Abigail didn't know about it. Sally explains that the party was a surprise birthday party for Abigail and apologizes to Abigail for not being able to get to it.
The elevator continues to move up, but gets stuck on the eleventh floor again, with only minutes left before the final phase of the curse takes effect. The group confronts Abigail, who then tearfully admits her actions before Sally appears. Anna runs in, but only Sally makes it out of the elevator before the doors close and the car moves up the shaft. Unaware that they are about to walk into a trap, Carolyn, Gilbert, Dewey, Emeline and Sally enter the repaired elevator.
He and Jill rush back to the hotel, but they are too late. Partridge's handkerchief, Dewey's spare bell-boy hat, Gilbert's Oxford spectacles, and Carolyn's locket) and repairing the elevator has given Abigail the means to complete the curse. After finding out that Abigail caused the curse, she also discovers that Abigail has been in a sanitarium ever since but is allowed out on day release.īuzzy realizes that finding the personal effects of the guests (a lock of Sally's hair, Ms. Although Halloween was Abigail's birthday, no one seemed to have remembered. Abigail was secretly jealous of her younger sister's talents and fame.
Researching Buzzy's story, Jill discovers that Abigail is the sister of Sally Shine. Anna accuses Emeline of cursing the other guests, but a shocked Emeline states her innocence, to which the other ghosts agree. It is immediately apparent that she is the same "Claire Poulet" that Buzzy already talked to. Fearing an intrusion, some of the ghosts appear and repeatedly attempt to frighten off Buzzy and Anna, but Anna steadfastly offers to help the ghosts escape the curse. Buzzy tries to develop a relationship with Claire, but she is dismayed when Buzzy expresses more interest in restoring his career than helping the spirits. Inside the hotel Buzzy and Anna meet an actress named "Claire Poulet", who had been hired so Buzzy could take fake pictures of the "ghosts" for the supermarket tabloid. Q is reluctant, but he decides to help his deceased grandfather and the four guests, especially as he stands to inherit the hotel if an explanation to the 1939 event is revealed. Buzzy and Anna enlist the help of Chris "Q" Todd, the hotel caretaker and grandson of Dewey Todd. Abigail also explains that items belonging to the passengers must be found, and what happened in 1939 must be repeated to break the curse.
Buzzy investigates the shuttered hotel and finds book of spells mentioned in Abigail's story, also discovering the curse can be reversed by its "contrary". Sometime later, an elderly woman named Abigail Gregory comes to visit Buzzy, and explains that on Halloween in 1939, she was witness to a bizarre incident in the Hollywood Tower Hotel, when five hotel guests – singer Carolyn Crosson, her boyfriend actor Gilbert London, much-loved child star Sally Shine, her nanny Emeline Partridge, and bellhop Dewey Todd, – mysteriously disappeared without a trace when lightning struck the elevator they were in on their way up to a party at the hotel's Tip Top Club.Ībigail states that the nanny, Emeline, was a bitter witch who tried to put a curse on Sally, only for the curse to misfire, trapping all of the five people who were in the elevator as ghosts, who haunt the hotel. Helping him in his job is young niece Anna ( Kirsten Dunst), who he is close friends with. Journalist Buzzy Crocker ( Steve Guttenberg) writes for a supermarket tabloid, "The National Inquisitor" after his termination from the Los Angeles Banner (where his then girlfriend Jill works as editor) for publishing a fake news story.
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