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.
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Nate H. reviewed Hell House LLC (2015)
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There are two ways to look at Hell House LLC. One is from the traditional critical point of view where--as it should be--everything worth criticizing is fair game. In that sense, Hell House LLC is typical found footage fare. The story is actually kind of cool in that a Halloween haunted house production crew take up shop in a supposedly really haunted abandoned hotel. It was interesting to see the crew build their house, and their scare scenes offer an effective creepy setting for the real scares to be born from. The acting from the unknowns is decent enough, and the story moves forward at a decent if also predictable pace.
But sadly, director Stephen Cognetti is unable to take advantage of the landscape he set for himself. There are too many run of the mill things in his presentation that we have seen many times before and not enough gumph to set this one apart from the pack.
Now the other lens to look at this from is when you take in the fact that this is Cognetti's first full length feature. If he were a friend of mine, I'd be really proud of him. There is enough here where he shows he has some potential. There is a sequel and I enjoyed this one enough to want to check it out. So couple viewpoints on an otherwise average movie, but in a universe I wouldn't mind looking at again. And that says something.
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