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.

This is the best movie in the franchise and understands the unsettling assignment while adding to the lore. This is 'Hell House LLC' at it's best and creepiest.

Though Shudder’s Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor adopts a new location, it rehashes franchise ideas and struggles to maintain its own identity.