Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel

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Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel is a 2018 American direct-to-streaming found-footage horror mystery film written and directed by Stephen Cognetti and produced by Joe Bandelli. A sequel to the 2015 film Hell House LLC and a second installment to the Hell House LLC franchise. The plot centers around a group of journalists who have gathered to explore the Abaddon Hotel, which has once again been abandoned following the events of the prior film.

The film was released on Shudder on September 20, 2018, and it received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

A journalism team consisting of Molly, David, Malcolm, and Jessica watches a program discussing the veracity of the Hell House documentary. Mitchell Cavanaugh, the only surviving member of Diane Graves' investigation team,Template:Efn reaffirms his belief that the hotel is haunted despite skepticism from fellow panelist Arnold Tasselman. Jessica contacts Mitchell, hoping that he will help them break into the hotel. She informs him of her belief that the basement contains evidence proving that Andrew Tully, the hotel's first owner, was the leader of a Satanic cult.

Mitchell escorts them to the Abaddon alongside Brock Davies, a self-proclaimed psychic. They descend into the basement and discover a room containing several boxes of files. Malcolm records Brock conducting a séance in the room where Tully's followers committed mass suicide. A cultist's spirit appears and kills Brock and Malcolm.

Mitchell insists that they leave after Molly reports supernatural activity. The group discovers Brock and Malcolm's corpses, and the exit door slams shut. They barricade themselves in a room after encountering another spirit. After looking through the Hell House team's footage, Malcolm discovers that Alex Taylor, Hell House LLC's CEO, had bought the hotel in a failed business venture, having lied to the crew about recently discovering the hotel. The mysterious man, whom Alex had bought the hotel from, convinces him to convert it into a haunted house.

Molly disappears after the lights suddenly shut off. After discovering a note revealing that she is in the basement, they find Molly lying on one of the clown mannequins. A brick wall graffiti'd with a pentagram collapses, revealing a glowing red tunnel. David is taken away by cultists in the tunnel. Mitchell wakes up and finds Molly and Jessica bound to chairs. He is greeted by Andrew Tully, who had disguised himself as Tasselman. After killing Molly, Tully forces Mitchell to choose between himself and Jessica to become spirits that lure people to the hotel as sacrifices.

Several days after the incident, Jessica, now a spirit, is questioned by the police. After initially being unable to recall the events, she eventually tells the detective to go to the Abaddon Hotel.

Cast

• Vahn Andrew Bautista as Mitchell Cavanaugh
• Jillian Geurts as Jessica Fox
• Joy Shatz as Molly Reynolds
• Dusty Austen as David Morris
• Brian David Tracy as Arnold Tasselman / Andrew Tully
• Kyle Ingleman as Brock Davies
• Amanda K. Morales as Suzy McCombs
• Laura Frenzer as Wendy Mallet
• Danny Bellini as Alex Taylor
• Tom Sibley as Jackson Mallet
• Lauren A. Kennedy as Melissa
• Adam Schneider as Andrew McNamara
• Alice Bahlke as Diane Graves
• Bailey Moyer as Hotel Guest
• Sean Hall as Amateur Videographer
• Matthew Binder as Amateur Videographer
• Gore Abrams as Paul O'keefe (archive footage)
• Alex Beechko as Andrea
• Jared Hacker as Tony Prescott (archive footage)
• Ryan Jennifer Jones as Sara Havel (archive footage)
• Joe Bandelli as Malcolm (uncredited)

Reception

Bloody Disgusting reviewed the film, criticizing it as a "well-intentioned misstep". On Culture Crypt the film has a review score of 35 out of 100 indicating "unfavorable reviews".

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