History Film / HellHouseLLC

* SchmuckBait: Even though the hotel has been closed down by the police since 2009 people have broken in to find out what happened including a photographer who takes some quick shots of the basement stairs. [[spoiler: Sara dangles some juicy bait for Diane Graves at the end of her interview, enticing her to go to the hotel and see it for herself.]]

* FoundFootageFilms: Consisting of a YouTube video uploaded by a Hell House patron on opening night, recovered footage from another patron, a leaked 911 call and video shot by one of the Hell House crew, Paul, for posterity, improving future attractions and use on Hell House's website.

** In the YouTube footage at the start of the film a clown doing this is the first sign things are going wrong and is brushed off as an opening night slipup. [[spoiler: He was the only person who saw what happened in the basement and survived and is found dead in his room shortly after.]]

* YouTube: The source of one of the only videos prior to the documentary of what happened on Hell House's opening night.

*** [[spoiler: Confirmed in the trailer for the [[Film/HellHouseLLC2 sequel]] where Mac confronts Alex on completely bankrupting the company prior to the events of Hell House. Alex responds by saying they can use the abandoned Abaddon Hotel for a new haunt that will make all the money back.]]

Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[Film/HellHouseLLC2 The sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, was released digitally via Shudder on September 20th.]]

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Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[Film/HellHouseLLC2 A sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, is scheduled for release on September 14th, 2018.]]

* [[spoiler: AgentScully: Documentarian Diane Graves mocks her cameraman, Jonathan, for being afraid of some "g-g-g-g-ghosts!" before going to the hotel.]]

* [[spoiler: TheBlank: The dark shapes that turn up in increasing frequency and attack Alex, Mac, Diane and Jonathan.]]
* [[spoiler: BloodFromTheMouth: Sara Havel after being hit in the head repeatedly by a camera]]

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong: Sara Havel, the source of the found footage who also sends the documentary crew to the hotel after telling them the whole story.]]
* [[spoiler: DemonicPossession: Paul is strongly implied to be a victim of this after he gets attacked in his room.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Foreshadowing}}: Former owner of the Abaddon Hotel, Andrew Tully, commits suicide years before by hanging himself in the dining room. Alex is killed the same way in the attic.]]
* [[spoiler: ForWantOfANail: If Diane had watched the footage Sara gave them ''before'' breaking into the Abaddon Hotel she probably wouldn't have gone in the first place.]]

* [[spoiler: ISeeDeadPeople: Zig-zagged with Sara. She seems to be talking to something when she's found sleepwalking and is the first person to feel really unsettled by the whole situation but it's uncertain what's going on.]]

* [[spoiler: LeaveTheCameraRunning: Happens twice, both times because the person previously holding the camera had dropped it after being attacked by the things in the Abaddon Hotel.]]

* [[spoiler: StringyHairedGhostGirl: One attacks Paul in his room three nights before Hell House opens.]]

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Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[HellHouseLLC2 A sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, is scheduled for release on September 14th, 2018.]]

''Hell House LLC'' is an indie [[FoundFootage found footage]] mockumentary horror film released in 2016 directly by Stephen Cognetti. On October 8th, 2009 an unexplained malfunction at the haunted house attraction Hell House in upstate New York took the lives of fifteen people, including most of the staff. [[GovernmentConspiracy Authorities have discouraged any further investigation]] about what happened ever since. In 2014 a documentary crew goes back to Abaddon, New York looking for answers. What they find raises even more questions about what happened on Hell House's tragic opening night. Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[https://www.horrorsociety.com/2018/08/08/found-footage-frightfest-continues-with-hell-house-llc-2-the-abaddon-hotel/ The sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel is scheduled for release on September 14th, 2018.]]

''Hell House LLC'' is an indie [[FoundFootage found footage]] mockumentary horror film released in 2016 directly by Stephen Cognetti. On October 8th, 2009 an unexplained malfunction at the haunted house attraction Hell House in upstate New York took the lives of fifteen people, including most of the staff. [[GovernmentConspiracy Authorities have discouraged any further investigation]] about what happened ever since. In 2014 a documentary crew goes back to Abaddon, New York looking for answers. What they find raises even more questions about what happened on Hell House's tragic opening night.

Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[https://www.horrorsociety.com/2018/08/08/found-footage-frightfest-continues-with-hell-house-llc-2-the-abaddon-hotel/ The sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel is scheduled for release on September 14th, 2018.]]

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Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8707374/mediaindex?ref_=tt_mv_close The sequel, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel is scheduled for release later in 2018.]]

* GovernmentConspiracy: The official explanation for what happened is it was some sort of tragic equipment malfunction. The emergency service personnel who were there are under strict gag orders, the only police officer who has spoken about it did so anonymously and the [[GasLeakCoverup first official explanation]] is discredited when a 911 tape from inside Hell House gets leaked to the Internet.

** The Hell House LLC [[https://www.facebook.com/pg/HellHouseLLC/videos/?ref=page_internal Facebook page]] takes this to the meta level with several videos [[AlternateRealityGame allegedly made by amateur ghost hunters who saw the film and went poking around in the Abaddon Hotel.]]

Released online in 2016, ''Hell House LLC'' is currently available on Amazon Prime. [[http://wickedhorror.com/horror-news/hell-house-llc-sequel-works-directors-cut-dvd-available-preorder/ A director's cut has recently been released and a sequel is in the works.]]

* CreepyBasement: Intended to be the exit and final room of Hell House and is where the mysterious accident happened on opening night. Comes complete with occult symbols already chalked into the walls and ancient Bibles all over the place. It's spooky enough that the reporter who breaks into Hell House gets his pictures by sticking the camera around the corner and taking the shot without looking. [[spoiler: It's also where the first mannequins that move are first set up and where the rest of the crew finds Paul after he gets attacked in his room and disappears.]]

* CreepyBasement: Intended to be the exit and final room of Hell House and is where the mysterious accident happened on opening night. Comes complete with occult symbols already chalked into the walls and ancient Bibles all over the place. It's spooky enough that the photographer who breaks into Hell House gets his pictures by sticking the camera around the corner and taking the shot without looking. [[spoiler: It's also where the first mannequins that move are first set up and where the rest of the crew finds Paul after he gets attacked in his room and disappears.]]

* IntrepidReporter: The documentary crew and the photographer who broke into the Abaddon Hotel.

* DamselInDistress: Initially subverted, one of the actors for Hell House is chained up in the basement and stripped down to her cut-open shirt and underwear to get this effect. Another actor is placed in the basement to keep her safe from any patrons who might cause trouble. [[spoiler: Played horrifyingly straight when things go really wrong on opening night.]]

* [[MalevolentMaskedMan Malevolent Masked Mannequin]]: The mannequins used for Hell House are creepy as is. [[spoiler: They get worse when they start moving.]]

** The Hell House crew experiences consistent problems with their walky talkies [[spoiler: and on opening night the observation cameras in the basement don't work.]]

* InnOfNoReturn: The Abaddon Hotel is rumored to be one. Before the events shown in the film [[spoiler: local legend has it some people, including a mother and daughter, checked in and never checked out. Business dried up and the [[DrivenToSuicide owner hanged himself in the hotel dining room. Sara later claims to be staying in a room that turns out to be in the Abaddon, leading to the documentary crew's demise.]]]]

* NoodleIncident: To the town of Abaddon. Arguably what happened in the basement as well [[spoiler: as the most the viewer ever sees is the crowd stampeding out, mannequins moving on their own, the horrified screams of the actress chained up down there begging to be let out and bloodstains on the staircase.]]
* NothingIsScarier: Much of the film runs on this. The worst of what takes place happens off-camera and many of the scares are very minimalistic in execution.

* HellHotel: The Abaddon Hotel. Even before the events shown in the film [[spoiler: local legend has it some people, including a mother and daughter, checked in and never checked out. Business dried up and the [[DrivenToSuicide owner hanged himself in the hotel dining room.]]]] It shut down shortly after and has been abandoned for decades.

** The only survivor of what happened in the basement is found dead in his room days after the disastrous opening night.

** In the YouTube footage at the start of the film a clown doing this is the first sign things are going wrong and is brushed off as an opening night slipup. [[spoiler: He was the only person who saw what happened in the basement and survived, was put there to keep another actor safe and is found dead in his room shortly after.]]

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: Sara Havel after being hit in the head repeatedly by a camera]]

* [[spoiler: Foreshadowing: Former owner of the Abaddon Hotel, Andrew Tully, commits suicide years before by hanging himself in the dining room. Alex is killed the same way in the attic.]]