‘Hell House LLC’ Returns With a Format Change and Plenty of Frights

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…