Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Hell House LLC’

Written by Scott Edwards

With my favorite holiday being Halloween, I am always looking forward to the haunted houses and crazy mazes that open up in the month of October. With so many of them around, it can be difficult to find one that I will really like, so I tend to reach out to my friends to and get their opinions. Word of mouth can be some of the best advertising for any business, especially if there are a lot of people saying the exact same thing. As always, I look forward to this upcoming October for so many reasons, but maybe this year, I can get more of my friends to give into their dark sides and take an adventure to a haunted house with me.
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Alex Taylor and his crew are looking for their next venture in the haunted house game and have found an abandoned hotel in Abaddon, New York that might be right up their alley. Getting to the old building and seeing how run down it really is, they know that they have their work cut out for them. As Paul keeps his camera firmly on his shoulder and watching as Mac, Tony and Sara all join in to get the house up and running, he will make sure to document everything that is going on in the old building to the fullest. But there is something about the building that is not being said to the crew that may change their outlook on trying to scare people and force them to just drop everything and leave before they even get started.

Venturing through the old building, the group is able to come up with ideas of what to do in every room, but the basement fascinates them most of all. With pentagrams all over the walls and a pile of Bibles hidden from the world, Sara is starting to think that the basement should not be used at all, since it is very creepy. Knowing what he wants however, Alex gets his crew to move forward and he slowly sees his vision becoming a reality. However, as the old hotel, now named Hell House, is taking shape, Paul is starting to see some strange things going on, such as Sara coming into his room and just staring at him in the middle of the night. Not understanding what is going on yet, the Abaddon Hotel is just getting warmed up to let its secrets loose. 

As the haunted house is getting closer to being finished, Alex hires some actors to play some roles alongside his team and one actor knows a little something about the old hotel. Telling the stories about it being haunted, Paul is shocked that his boss would keep this information from him and his friends. But that is just the tip of the iceberg as Paul is trekking around the main floor and spots a clown staring down into the basement. Seeing that it is not one of his friends in the outfit, or the actor that has just been brought on, he checks out the basement and seeing more ghouls coming at him than were set up, there is definitely something going on in the building that is not of the living’s doing. 

This is a documentary type of movie, as Sara is answering questions for a reporter looking to get to the bottom of what happened years ago at the Abaddon Hotel and why so many people lost their lives. With plenty of unanswered questions from the authorities, getting tapes from the house building team is eye opening for the reporter and her team. Cycling through the tapes and asking the hard-hitting questions to Sara, there really is only one way to get to the bottom of what happened in the old hotel, to go in and see for themselves. I am still a little upset that nobody wanted to go into the basement after the event took place, it seems to hold the secrets to the Abaddon Hotel and all its glory. With blood, hooded ghosts, nasty faced demons, a haunted house attraction, a real haunted house and a boss that does not know when to quit, not a bad movie that will give you all the information you want and still leave a little to the imagination, just so it will be harder to go to sleep at night. Stay Scared.

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