Across four films, the Hell House LLC series has used found footage to investigate the diabolical goings-on in Abaddon, New York, where you’ll find a creepy old hotel, a murder mansion , vicious cultists, and an unholy number of camera-toting journalists. The fifth film in Stephen Cognetti ’s series, Hell House LLC: Lineage , returns to that hellish town for more exploration, but with a big difference this time around: Lineage is not a found-footage film.

It’s a risk, but it makes a lot of sense, allowing Cognetti the freedom to explore Abaddon’s mysteries without framing the movie as a documentary or featuring the shaky, dimly lit footage that’s inextricable from the found-footage aesthetic. Instead, Lineage can make style choices that no other Hell House LLC movie could,

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