Hell House LLC

"On October 8th, 2009 a haunted house attraction opened its doors to the public in Upstate New York. The entire crew was found dead, except for one. Five years later a documentary crew found her... and the video footage from inside the house."

Director: Stephen Cognetti Year: 2015 Runtime: 93 min IMDb: ⭐ 6.5

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Synopsis

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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🎄 Holiday Cheer Breakdown

☠️ Takes place on or around a holiday —
☠️ Features holiday symbols and decorations —
☠️ Features a traditional holiday activity —
☠️ Features an iconic holiday character —
☠️ Someone is killed in a festive or holiday-specific way —

Content Warnings

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someone is sexually assaulted

spoiler nobody gets assaulted, but a character does make many lewd comments about females, about them and to them. It's played off as a joke

a cat dies

Yes

there are spiders

spoiler big fake ones as decoration

a dragon dies

Yes

there are bugs

Yes

an animal is sad

Yes

someone leaves without saying goodbye

spoiler Paul appears to the other characters to have left, but viewers know his disappearance to be a result of paranormal activity.

a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian

Yes

a woman is brutalized for spectacle

spoiler The woman is literally chained to a wall in her underwear while being murdered

someone gets gaslighted

spoiler Not in a literal sense. They all understandably question each other from time to time, doubting & questioning each other in regards to the paranormal activity they're individually experiencing. This is not done in a malicious way or in order to make someone question their own sanity.

the abused becomes the abuser

Yes

someone is stalked

spoiler Arguably by the ghost

alcohol abuse

spoiler There is a drinking scene but it’s isn't implied if anyone has a drinking problem

rape is mentioned

spoiler One of the actors in the movie is restrained and no shirt just a bra and one of the characters mentions that she need some to watch and defend her in the case she gets raped

someone is restrained

spoiler A woman participating in the haunted house as an actor is hung from the ceiling by her wrists. Later on the person with the keys to what I believe are the handcuffs runs away.

there's excessive gore

spoiler There is violence and blood in the movie but I wouldn’t call it excessive gore. No guts falling out and heads being cut off.

there are hangings

spoiler It's a reoccurring theme. One or two props are hung by the neck, its mentioned multiple times that a character died by hanging themself, and about 32-35 minutes into the movie there's an explicit photo of a character who hanged himself that stays on screen for a few seconds. About an hour and 17 minutes in, another character is hanged.

there's shaving/cutting

spoiler One character sliced his throat open with glass

someone struggles to breathe

spoiler One character is hanged and gasps for air

someone asphyxiates

spoiler more than one characters are killed by hanging, only one is on screen

somebody is choked

Yes

someone is stabbed

spoiler Near the end, I believe one of the characters is stabbed in the stomach

Someone becomes unconscious

Yes

there's eye mutilation

spoiler Not mutilation but one character jokingly “squeezes his eye out” and it’s gross

there's body horror

spoiler if you count throat wounds being visible, and some of the mannequins, yes there is

there's torture

spoiler There was some psychological torture in a way

heads get squashed

spoiler A character's head is stomped on

someone's throat is mutilated

Yes

a kid dies

spoiler It looks like some kids are there in the end, trying to find a way out. It's not clearly shown if any unnamed characters were harmed.

a major character dies

Yes

someone dies

Yes

someone is kidnapped

spoiler Paul disappeared at one point

a parent dies

spoiler It's heavily implied that a mother and child died years before the film crew arrives.

there are jump scares

spoiler Audio-wise? No Visually? Yes

there are clowns

spoiler The "scary clown" type, and the effect is with rubber masks. Work both by mannequins and people.

there's ghosts

Yes

there are mannequins

Yes

someone is possessed

Yes

someone vomits

spoiler 44:50-45:05

There's audio gore

spoiler Not overwhelmingly but it is there

someone defecates

spoiler There is fake feces in a toilet for the haunted house.

someone wets/soils themselves

spoiler Unclear but a character seems to have possibly wet himself after one of the earlier scares

there's spitting

Yes

there's smoke or haze

Yes

someone dies by suicide

spoiler About 30-35 minutes into the movie, there's an explicit photo of a character who hanged himself and it stays on screen for a few seconds. Another character cuts his throat towards the end of the movie.

Someone attempts suicide

Yes

someone self harms

spoiler Someone cuts their own throat.

there's misophonia

spoiler Breathing sounds

someone suffers from PTSD

spoiler Sarah seems to have ptsd in her interviews

reality is unstable or unhinged

Yes

there's a claustrophobic scene

spoiler The building in which they are shooting has very close quarters.

there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization

spoiler At one point, Sara is found looking at a wall, mumbling in a foreign language and not answering to those talking to her

someone has an anxiety attack

spoiler One dude panics quite a bit when he notices that mannequins with clown masks on have turned their heads to look in his direction, after noting in a previous scene they cannot swivel their heads.

someone has a meltdown

Yes

shaky cam is used

spoiler It's found footage, so the camera does get shakey sometimes.

there's flashing lights or images

spoiler The movie takes place in a haunted house and there are strobe lights inside.

there are sudden loud noises

spoiler 0:55:11 is a VERY loud, sudden screech out of nowhere. If you can't go by timestamps, mute your TV once they get the idea to call Paul on his phone. It goes by quick.

there's screaming

Yes

there's underwater scenes

Yes

there is obscene language/gestures

Yes

someone is watched without knowing

Yes

there's ableist language or behavior

spoiler Use of the word “lane” by some characters

there's demons or Hell

spoiler A lot of implications as well as pentagrams and the end relies heavily on demons [trying not to spoil it]

religion is discussed

spoiler It's not debated but a satanic cult is implied.

there is sexual content

spoiler Although it isn’t sex, there is a scene where one of the character films two characters cuddling in their pajamas (underwear and a t shirt)

someone is sexually objectified

Yes

there's BDSM

spoiler No but people are chained up and restrained as scare actors in a haunted house.

a male character is ridiculed for crying

spoiler No, however in the last 5 minutes or so a man is ridiculed for not wanting to do something scary. Something along the lines of “don’t be such a p*ssy”.

the ending is sad

Yes

there's end credits scenes?

Yes

there's blood/gore

spoiler Blood is shown, but this isn’t a film with graphic gore.

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