Hellhouse LLC was a surprisingly excellent found footage film, benefitting from a well constructed narrative and great setup. The two followup sequels were increasingly atrocious, providing and expanding an unnecessary mythology. To its credit, this sequel is a vast improvement over its predecessors, but nowhere approaching the ingenuity or scares the first film offered. Rather than continue to expand the backstory of the Abaddon hotel, they shift locales to a foreboding manor in the middle of the woods, and reskin the framing scenario an amateur true crime investigation. These are far from the last horror cliches indulged, in addition to all the found footage tropes here en masse. At this point, the series indulges its own particular tropes, with recycled scares and lots and lots of creepy clowns; coulrophobics best avoid this whole franchise. The performances are wildly uneven, but the direction is decent and quite adept at hiding its budget limitations. The film does make good use of tension and atmosphere building, but tends to disappoint in the execution which normally ends up being someone screaming with a lot of shaky cam. Regardless, things move briskly and manage to cover a lot of information, jumping between different sets of recovered footage and interviews. There’s minimal gore and a few jump scares that do land, but on the whole this entry is crafted for franchise purists who will have more fun making the various connections and spotting the easter eggs.