Hell House LLC. III: Lake of Fire

Directed by Stephen Cognetti, Hell House LLC. III: Lake of Fire follows Gabriel Chytry’s Russell Wynn as he decides to bring his interactive show to the series’ infamous hotel. Filmmaker Cognetti, armed with his own screenplay, delivers a perpetually underwhelming endeavor that falls right in line with its less-than-accomplished predecessors, although, as becomes clear, Hell House LLC. III: Lake of Fire ultimately fares even worse than the first two pictures within this generally worthless trilogy – with the movie’s opening half hour progressing at a snail’s pace and, even worse, containing a time-wasting and thoroughly unreasonable amount of flashbacks. And while the film’s been peppered with an extremely small handful of creepy set-pieces, including (and especially) a character’s ill-advised trip into the aforementioned hotel’s basement, Hell House LLC. III: Lake of Fire‘s paucity of compelling characters, which is exacerbated by an assortment of uniformly amateurish performances, ensures that it becomes more and more interminable as it very slowly unfolds – with the growing emphasis on the franchise’s convoulted and hopelessly uninteresting mythology only exacerbating the predominantly unwatchable atmosphere. By the time the anticlimactic and seemingly endless final stretch rolls around, Hell House LLC. III: Lake of Fire has cemented its place as an incompetent capper to a half-baked, completely underwhelming horror series.

1/2* out of ****