Ok, Hell House LLC3 was honestly not bad, I think it's better than Origins but it just needed a bigger budget because
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The Angel reveal fight scene at the end has zero budget and is lolwut for a finale.
I liked that the whole story they make it seem like the rich dude made a deal with the devil and was going to sacrifice everyone on purpose for some satanic ritual, but in the end it turns out he was actually an angel come to stop it and close the gate.
Still after having seen all four now I think Stephen Cognetti is a pretty solid director and okayish writer as I think all four are pretty competent and none of them are just total badly made trash.
1 is the best because the concept's original, the cast is likeable, pace is good
2 is a solid expansion of the lore, still sorta likeable cast, only falls apart in the end by VILLAIN RANT
3 is fun, likeable cast, good pacing, mostly just falls apart because of low budget and finale should've been way longer and higher budget, also G-MAN is not a good villain in 2 & 3. Like G-MAN is not scary unless you're Gordon Freeman.
4 is well made scares, decent pacing, but the cast is the fucking worst of the 4 by a large amount and you're like why the fuck don't they leave. It also is a weird side story that for being "ORIGINS" barely adds anything to the plot/lore and is pretty much just a haunted house rehash with SCARY CLOWNS, so if you're not into scary clowns it's kinda whatever. It's a lot more serious and less fun than the other ones because the cast and setting. 4 also makes the least sense (scary bird noises, cult demons in the daylight away from the hotel, etc..., I still have no fucking idea what the demon clown thing in the series is)
1>3>4>2
I don't think they should've called 4 Origins, since it takes place after 3 and barely explains any origin stuff to the lore. Will see what the next one brings...
I don't think they should've called 4 Origins, since it takes place after 3 and barely explains any origin stuff to the lore. Will see what the next one brings...
It's not a prequel, but you get more backstory for Andrew Tully and what the cult was up to, how he was a preacher that lost his faith after his wife died and started a satanic cult to try to resurrect her. Then he meets up with the evil clown carnies in West Virginia, moves to Abaddon and recruits the Patrick Carmichael into the cult because of how distraught he was over his sister's death. (Patrick was supposed to be at the mass suicide, but he missed it because he was in jail.) He helps Andrew kidnap people to sacrifice at the carnival. In one of the earlier movies, it talks about a carnival shutting down in Abaddon after some kind of disaster, and also they mention Margot almost being kidnapped at a carnival.
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Sure, although why is there still supernatural stuff at the manor when the gate to hell was at the hotel.
My take was that Patrick who missed the death portal time at the hotel, then goes home and kills his family to open ANOTHER portal at the house which is the red light he walks into wearing the clown suits.
After which he becomes a ghost clown demon and hangs out at the hotel fucking with people until the hotel burns down and now he hangs out at the house fucking with people.
And I guess the gate at the house covers a large radius like the whole woods since demons can just pop up in the woods now.
Though it's kind of funny that Angel-dude closed one gate but there was this other one open down the street as well.
I'm going to assume Origins is just starting a new sub-series for the franchise that will all take place at that house and the woods around it.