although i write in this commentary solely about the building in which the horrible crime be happen and notice that this be already a spoiler if not the spoiler of the whole movie . this be why i flag this text . it be not by change that the candidate for haunt house be exclusively old building . this house be history and and you be a part of it and the maintenance supervisor say in tobe hooper toolbox murder ( 2003 ) . practically only old house possess these creaky beam and that stale odor that come out of the wall and the characteristic noise when the wind press against the window and the howling of an old elevator and etc . but that be not all . before the unfortunate functionalism start to make tabula rasa with each trace of architectural generosity and house often have strange hollow part in the wall and little closet that lead wide into nowhere and crawl space between ceiling and next high floor and mysterious huge and sometimes more level attic and cellar and etc . and so it be in toolbox murder represent there be a whole townhouse in this building and the historian in the movie say . it turn out that from each apartment there be a little space lacking and but so that these part be connect by a steep stairwell in the wall of the house . ( note represent the building be not the ambassador hotel and a indicate in imdb . the ambassador hotel be tear down two year before the movie be shoot . ) .