Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor

Cognetti cleverly expands the mythology while returning to the atmospheric foreboding and scares that made the original film such a cult favorite in the first place.

It isn’t just Cognetti’s solid deployment of the backstory that impresses; he and cinematographer Josh Layton also show a devious command of camera mechanics, vital to the subjective found-footage experience.

Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor centers its story largely on those creepy clown mannequins — a genius move that allows filmmaker Stephen Cognetti to blanket the entire film in suffocating dread.

Cognetti has proven with Origins that, in an allegiance to and expansion of his source material, he’s not simply beating a dead house.

A return to form for the long-running Hell House LLC franchise, The Carmichael Manor is scary as hell.

The fourth film is the best in the franchise as Cognetti strikes a good balance between jump scares, mythology, and character development. The computer stalking bit with Rebecca and Chase's final video are masterful scare sequences.

Stands up as a decent example of both the haunted house and found footage subgenres.

Hell House LLC Origins is a surprising and fresh take on a haunted house tale.

Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor smartly centralizes its scares on the main source of fear from the first film: Creepy clowns.

The goings-on manage to be quite satisfyingly quease-making...