I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. I normally hate found footage/shaky cam but this was very well-done. A documentary crew attempts to explore what happened to the crew and visitors of a disastrous haunted house opening in 2009, despite a total information blackout. One of the few survivors, Sara (Ryan Jennifer), provides the crew with tapes detailing what the haunted house company experienced during set up.
I do love mock-umentaries but they are notoriously difficult to pull off convincingly. Hell House LLC absolutely nails the mix of journalism and found footage to craft a really engaging watch. There's no complicated plot, or really much of a story. Something bad happened during the opening night of this haunted house and people died. Everything else is really about the atmosphere and sheer number of horror tropes. Vaguely Satanic scrawls on a creepy basement? Check. Abandoned hotel with a checkered history and a suicided owner? Check. Haunted house paraphernalia like blacklight skulls and clown masks? Check. It's a kitchen sink approach that could have been all over the place but works more often than it doesn't.
If you have Prime, it's streaming there and I also heard it was on Shudder. It is absolutely worth your time.
Pumpkin rating: 4.8/5
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