Hell House LLC

The film is presented as a documentary investigating an unexplained accident at an abandoned hotel in the town of Abaddon in Rockland County, New York that was set up as a haunted house.

Fifteen people, including the first group of attendees and the members of the Hell House company that opened the attraction, died in what authorities decreed as an "unknown malfunction".

The documentary crew, led by producer Diane Graves, interview people familiar with the case and find rumors of something supernatural behind the tragedy. The crew tracks down the sole surviving member of the Hell House staff, Sara Havel, who provides them with footage shot in the lead up to the tragedy.

Havel's tapes document the company's arrival at the Abaddon Hotel and they set it up for Halloween. Each employee experienced unexplainable events but Alex, the CEO of the company, is determined to open the attraction. The footage suggests the hotel may have been the site of a Satanic cult. The Hell House group dismiss the activity and open the attraction and let the first group enter the attraction. All of the guests and company crew are attacked by the supernatural beings and killed.

Sara asks for a break from filming, and tells Diane she will be in her hotel room if the team has questions. She also suggests the crew should break into the Abaddon to see for themselves what happened inside. Diane goes to the hotel, which says Sara was not staying there.

Mitchell, a member of the documentary film crew, stays behind to catalogue Sara's footage. He sees something that deeply disturbs him, but is hidden from the audience, and tries to call Diane but cannot get through.

Diane and her cameraman break in and see the aftermath of what unfolded that night. They go to the second floor, where they see a room labeled '2C', the same room Sara said she was staying in. When they enter the room, they find Sara sitting with her back to them. Diane and her cameraman try to flee but are attacked by a ghoulish Sara and other ghostly figures.

It is revealed that what Mitchell saw was a possessed member of Hell House killing Sara; she has been dead the whole time they had been speaking to her, and there were, in fact, no survivors.

In 2011, the film's executive producers asked for a script revolving around a haunted attraction gone wrong. After many rewrites, the script was locked by late 2013. Casting took place in New York City in February 2014, and production took place shortly after, in May. Initially, the filmmakers were in search of an abandoned house to shoot the film in, as the original script had the events taking place in a house. As early as 2012, the director had been visiting many abandoned buildings and homes, including two in the New York county where the story takes place, Rockland County, New York. After not finding anything suitable, they instead began searching for real haunted house attractions to shoot in. They found the haunted attraction called the Haunting at the Waldorf Hotel in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, run by Angie Moyer, who served as the film's set designer. The script had to be changed in a few areas to reflect the change in setting.

After filming wrapped within Lehighton in May, the production then moved to New York City, where most of the interviews were filmed. In mid-June, filming was complete, and the movie went to post-production, where it would be edited for the next five months, before the first private screening of a rough cut would be seen in the Rose Studio at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

After a few more rounds of re-cuts, the film was locked just before its first public screening at the Telluride Horror Show in October 2015. The film would also screen at Fear Fete Film Festival the same week, where it won the best paranormal film award. The worldwide distribution rights for Hell House LLC were acquired by Terror Films, with a North American VOD release date of November 1, 2016.

• Ryan Jennifer Jones as Sara Havel
• Danny Bellini as Alex Taylor
• Gore Abrams as Paul O'Keefe
• Jared Hacker as Tony Prescott
• Adam Schneider as Andrew “Mac” McNamara
• Alice Bahlke as Diane Graves
• Phil Hess as Joey Sheffler
• Lauren A Kennedy as Melissa
• Jeb Kreager as Martin Cliver

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives Hell House LLC a 89% positive rating based on nine critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.75/10.[3] Dread Central gave the film a positive review, awarding it a score of 3.4/5.[4] Found Footage Critic praised the cast, premise, and cinematography, giving the film a rating of 7.8 of 10.[5] The Horror Society gave a score of 8.75 out of 10 and saying the mystery and suspense works for this film.[6] SlashFilm also gave the film a positive review writing that "Stephen Cognetti's Halloween chiller marries found footage with haunted attractions, channeling a popular and rational fear."[7] Luke Rodriguez of Modern Horror was more critical of the film, saying that "it doesn't quite stick the landing", but otherwise enjoyed the film.[8]

In an interview with Geeks of Doom, Cognetti has stated that he sees the Hell House LLC trilogy as "one movie just divided into three acts and each movie is its own act". He further commented that he found it easy to write the second and third parts, as he knew "where I wanted to go with it from the get-go".[9]

• Hell House LLC at IMDb
• Hell House LLC at Rotten Tomatoes