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‘Hell House LLC: Lineage’ Will Stream on Shudder This Halloween
Spend Halloween at the Abaddon, as Hell House LLC: Lineage will stream October 30 on Shudder.
Writer-director Stephen Cognetti said that the franchise’s fifth installment “will likely be the last but also the scariest Hell House.”
Haunted by visions and recurring nightmares years after a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepard finds herself living in the town of Abaddon, unable to break free from its unexplainable hold on her.
When people around her suddenly and inexplicably begin to die, she soon uncovers her terrifying connection to the Abaddon Hotel, the Carmichael Manor and the mysterious murders that have been occurring for decades.
Unlike the prior found footage entries — 2015’s Hell House LLC, 2018’s Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, 2019’s Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, and 2023’s Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor — Lineage a traditionally-shot narrative.
Newcomers Searra Sawka and Mike Sutton join returning actors Elizabeth Vermilyea, Cayla Berejikian, Victoria Andrunik, Gideon Berger, Bridget Rose Perrotta, Destiny Brown, James Liddell, and Joe Bandelli.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review,”The fifth entry doesn’t function as a movie on its own accord. Instead, it’s an exposition-heavy chapter of an ongoing saga, one devoid of scares, atmosphere, or even character arcs.”
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.