The original Hell House LLC appeared on a number of video on demand services on November 1, 2016. Our terrifyingly accurate results landed the film within the top twenty of our heart racing leaderboard. Did the third installment surpass the fear created by the original? Find out if the shudder exclusive film Hell House III: Lake of Fire reignited our subject’s hatred of those creepy clowns.
Joining us again will be one of our favorite heart racing horror pages on instagram @niks.horror.flix to monitor and share her own results. How will the analysis of a horror junkie compare to our terrified horror novice?
SYNOPSIS:
The Abaddon Hotel will once again be open to the public. Russell Wynn has taken his audience-interactive show, Insomnia, into the abandoned hotel that is rumored to be haunted.
Test Subject: Leah & NIkki
Gender: Female
Fears: Clowns / Ghosts
Resting HR: 62-65 bpm
Walking HR: 80-85 bpm
Leah and Nikki had extremely similar results. But as a horror junkie with repeated exposure to the macabre, Nikki’s heart rate produced lower numbers due to desensitization. Yet even with the varying levels, our scale is in agreement, whatever happened after the thirty minute mark was truly terrifying.
NIKS.HORROR.FLIX PLAY BY PLAY
03:41 – My heart skipped a few beats just from this tiny flashback.
17:14 – Sh*t, these little flashbacks are really getting me.
29:08 – Getting nervous.
30:03 – I’m scared.
30:38 – Jumped a snide.
31:03 – F*****CK.
31:13 – No no no no.
32:22 – AAAAAAAAAAH!
32:46 – NOOOO, RUN. OMG
33:20 – im so scared.
37:46 – WTF
38:32 – whoa
43:22 – NOPE. Like wtf people?!?!
1:03:39 – oh sh*t…here we go (but immediately fell to nothing because it went nowhere
Okay, that didn’t go where I thought it was going to go.
1:09:26 – things are heating up
1:11:19 – Sh*t’s bout to get real. I’m scared
1:16:45 – This show has lost me. Too much human carnage and that lake of fire scene was just bad.
All-in-all, this movie had some scary parts but as a whole was a let down. Too many recycled ideas.
FEARSCALE ANALYSIS:
Once again we found ourselves counting down the days to opening night at the Abaddon hotel with scenes consisting of interviews and flashbacks. This mild introduction kept our subject’s heart rate hovering near her resting average and lulling her into a false sense of security. Little did she know that waiting around the corner were visuals so terrifying, they would spike her heart rate to a new FearScale record peak of 107bpm. Our subject later revealed that anticipation built from the original film increased her anxiety as the paranormal instances began to pile up. Jolts above 90bpm continued to occur during the middle of the film. She jumped and squirmed as several dark moments within the hotel, reminiscent to the original film, created extreme unease. But our subject’s numbers began to drastically drop shattering our expectations of a frightening finale. Scenes of chaos and gore had little effect as she witnessed a low budget, mildly entertaining conclusion to the trilogy.
CONCLUSION:
Lake of Fire felt eerily familiar. Many of the terrifying moments that worked in the original still produced the same level of fear. But unlike Hell House LLC, Lake of Fire got trapped within an overly complicated story. The lengthy introduction failed to establish high numbers while an attempt to provide a satisfying conclusion diminished the scares. The record breaking peak however proved that the creators of the Hell House franchise know the winning formula to make a heart race. Dark, winding corridors filled with elaborate creepy AF props continued to produce nightmarish levels of anxiety. And that blueprint will always be a recipe for success in burning calories.
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Hell House III: Lake of Fire : Burns an average of 169 Calories
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