Film

Hell House LLC

Name: Hell House LLC
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Released: 2015
Cast: Danny Bellini, Ryan Jennifer Jones, Gore Abrams, Jared Hacker, Adam Schneider

Hell House LLC is a found-footage horror film disguised as a documentary investigation. It follows a crew revisiting a haunted house attraction where fifteen people died under mysterious circumstances. The film builds dread through interviews, recovered footage, and mounting strangeness, asking whether the tragedy was accident, negligence, or something genuinely supernatural. It's for people who like their horror patient and genuinely unsettling.

TMDb rating

3.2

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