Hell House LLC

2015 Directed by Stephen Cognetti

Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.

Kristin Michelle Taylor Theodore Bouloukos Ryan Jennifer Jones Gore Abrams Natalie Gee Miranda Robbins Jeb Kreager Jared Hacker Adam Schneider Danny Bellini Alice Bahlke

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Review by Tony the Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 👻 ★★★½ 2

I wanted to rewatch this before seeing part 2 and my original opinion still stands: it doesn’t really do anything new or groundbreaking, but what it does do, it does really well. Every time I get ready to write off the whole found footage subgenre something like this comes along to prove that it’s far from over. Every time. And hey, I’m always happy to be proven wrong when it comes to horror expectations.
The creepy clown dolls are downright terrifying and the house is exactly the kind of place that no one in their right mind would stay in and that’s all the more reason why I would totally stay there. There are plenty of “blink and you’ll miss…
Review by Digital Press ★★★½ 2

Felt very much like a spiritual successor to The Blair Witch Project, which is a good thing because I’d like a good alternative and most found footage movies don’t do it for me. A few genuinely good scares and an overall spooky vibe make this “haunted house Halloween amusement in a REAL haunted house” reality film a winner. Almost definitely better on a rewatch, too, as there are lots of quick peeks at weird stuff and I’d be cheating if I rewound and paused.
A top 10 horror found footage movie!
Review by RCDoom9113 ★★★ 4

There is probably no genre in horror, or film in general for that matter, that is more hit or miss then the Found Footage genre. My personal preference for these kinds of horror movies is constantly fluctuating from enjoyment to all encompassing hatred. There are some great ones out there to be sure. The Blair Witch Project and Cannibal Holocaust are the Grand Poobahs of found footage horror, whether you like the movies or not, and we can all safely assume they are the first, if not the greatest, ever made and kick-started the entire fad. Grave Encounters and As Above So Below are a couple of other solid entries to the genre. Found footage even pops up in unrelated…
Review by Ian West ★★½

It’s so weird that, at least to me, the genre shifted away from found footage only a few short years ago but it feels like a decade. TBH I was a fan of FF, I liked a decent amount of them, and I do miss watching a found footage flick at 2am while getting spooked by some dumb jump scare. I also think it’s interesting that Found footage broke into the main stream with The Blair Witch Project and its last mainstream gasp was ironically enough Blair Witch, the circle of life I suppose lol.
Anyway, Enter Hell House LLC. It was ok... I’m glad it didn’t rely to heavily on wide open mouths and people walking around with crackling limbs.
Review by Hollie Horror ★★ 1

Hell House LLC is competently made but nothing more than that, it feels incredibly safe and there wasn't anything about it I'm going to remember by this time next week. I appreciated the few outdoor scenes breaking up the monotony of all the found footage from the single haunt location but I was struggling to engage for a majority of the running time, I just kept thinking "I wish I was watching a movie about a spooky, abandoned hotel possibly resting atop a gateway to hell directed by Lucio Fulci instead."
tl;dr i guess it's fine and seasonally appropriate and readily available on prime if you have access to that shit which we do not in Norway but I do…
Review by Smapti ★ 2

Oh hey I just found the script for Hell House LLC - a sack of rancid horseshit starring a bunch of yelly shitbros - and here it is:
FUCK YOU BRO
NO FUCK YOU
NO REALLY FUCK YOU BROSEPH
NO ACTUALLY FUCK YOU
x 5000
also, the scariest thing about this film is the disturbing number of positive reviews it's gotten on this site - what the hell is wrong with all of you
Review by <Todd> ★★ 1

"Undercover clowns... sick!"
It's found footage. A documentary crew goes to Hell House, the scene of a massacre with 15 deaths, to find out what really happened. People have rated this a 3.2 which thoroughly confuses me because I find this boring and unlikable but to each their own. This film clearly tries to channel the energy of a film like the Blair Witch Project and that effort is appreciated but it feels a little too actor-Y and cute for the found footage stuff to feel real like it did in Blair Witch. While the last ten to fifteen minutes are haunting the boring first hour gets in the way of true enjoyment.
Not a recommend but I'm in the minority here.
Review by Matt Winfield ★★★★ 3

🌜Daily Horror Hunt #27 (Sept. 2020)🌛
It's becoming rare that I find a horror flick that legit gives me a fright anymore, but man, something about found footage, something about Hell House, it really got under my skin. Sittin' in total darkness, the film has long since ended, credits have rolled, the faint glow of a blackened screen. I'm not ashamed to admit I did a slight (oh so slight...) MAD FUCKIN' DASH with my head down to go flick on some lights. Ain't no creepy clowns gonna get me, and FUCK those hellish figures in black! This movie was effective, I'll give it that...
So much done with so little. A bunch of New York dopes getting a haunted…
Review by DreamScape40 ★★★½

S p O o K y
Boy do i hate haunted places.
I remember going to Rob Zombie's concert up in Phoenix, AZ a few years back and they did the whole haunted house tour. Promotion of "the Lords of Salem". Concert was awesome but I knew my friends wanted to do the haunted house tour and I was scared shitless. It was inside a warehouse and they had this big truck blowing its horn every 5 minutes it felt like and was extremely loud and obnoxious. Anyways, they wanted you to put this hood or whatever on over your head throughout the house (which was the part I was not too thrilled about). After 2 hours or so waiting…
Review by pd187 ★★ 4

which one of yall told me this was good 👿
Review by Laura ★★½

simultaneously terrified of the dummies and the casual misogyny
Review by zuhair vazir ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Genuinely tense, unnerving and 'Rattleship Pokemon' (you'll get it). This film has all the potential in the world to change the 'found-footage' genre. The ascension is pristine panic and dense terror and other such delightful emotions felt throughout, which keep us alive and in this case, content.
"Hell House LLC" builds on the haunted house or 'The House of Horrors' narrative-conventions by first breaking them down by handing each cast member their own A/V equipment. We also have the "Recovered tour-goer footage"; "The 911 call record(s)"; "The video uploaded to YouTube"; "Various mockumentary news footage", there are the interviews: "Dude, all of a sudden there are people coming out of the house"; "I... I do not know what happened" followed…

Recent reviews

Review by MustBeGenetic ★★★½

Full disclosure, this movie really fucks with me. It hits all my horror-movie pressure points, effecting me emotionally while, intellectually, I recognize it’s not a particularly good film. While it’s very problematic, I still can’t shake it.
Review by satansflowerboy ★★★★½

Apart from a few old horror tropes, this is one of the best found-footage films of its era. Sequels may become progressively dull but this first installment stands as horror film that rewards attention to detail with genuine chills and scares.
Review by Thomas Powell ★★★

A little slow but overall a good time with dumb characters
Review by kate ★★★★

that spooky clown do be spooky
Review by feliz_navitodd ★

honestly trynna live there
Review by The_Cub ★★★

It's spooky and in a Haunted House attraction but it's ACTUALLY HAUNTED!!!!!
Review by Otaxu ★★½

Where this movie benefits most is it’s documentary style approach at the beginning of the film. The horror doesn’t rely on jump scares and instead builds up a realistic found-footage flick.

The movie loosens all tension and realism towards the end however. It’s always a hard balance when it comes to scaring your audience in found-footage to keep it as real as possible without making it boring. The ending feels a little too unrealistic and it seriously weakens whatever tone the movie had originally set out for. The movie didn’t really have the strongest set-up going for it anyhow.
Review by megdigi ★★★★

This was genuinely the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. This may be my new second favorite found footage horror movie (second to Blair Witch obvi). At one point I didn’t know if it was scarier to watch the screen or keep my eyes closed. Overall, just a well done and engaging story as well.
Review by joeben ★★★★★

Yes mate
Review by AAH1107 ★★★★½

This is, by far, the scariest found footage films I’ve ever seen. Man it’s so good, give it a try, trust me.
Review by Pied2000 ★★★

The organisers have lost control and even Joey's heading for the door! It's not explicitly clear what's going on down in the old hotel basement with everyone freaking out in big panic, but it makes for a truly unnerving, claustrophobic moment of mass hysteria.
Best supporting actor goes to the terrifying, clown-faced mannequin, who'll be popping into my head whenever I go for a 2am wee for the next month or so.
Review by cheyenne ★★★½

now i will admit. . they got me a couple times. . but i said a couple times. .