Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025)
Director: Stephen Cognetti
Screenplay: Stephen Cognetti
Based on: Characters by Stephen Cognetti
Stars: Elizabeth Vermilyea, Searra Sawka, Mike Sutton, Joe Bandelli
Release date: August 20, 2025
Plot: The film is about the continuity of the storyline of Vanessa Shepard, portrayed by Elizabeth Vermilyea, who is haunted by visions and nightmares in the town of Abaddon. As mysterious deaths occur around her, she uncovers connections to the Abaddon Hotel and the Carmichael Manor, delving into decades of unexplained murders.
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Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025) | Transcript
[intense music]
[film reel whirring]
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[typewriter clacking]
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[engine roaring]
[birds chirping]
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[mourner crying]
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[mourner crying]
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[mourner crying]
Mom wants you to say the prayer at the cemetery.
Listen, the hardest part will be when they lower her body into the ground.
The finality of her life will hit hardest at that moment.
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If you, if you need me to do it, I will.
Pat, say something.
We won’t be praying, Catherine.
Okay, we can get the priest to do the prayer.
No one prays.
But it’s what we do when we say goodbye.
I’m not saying goodbye.
I’m so sorry, Pat, but we have to say goodbye.
They’re all going to be punished.
Who?
You know who.
Pat, don’t talk like this.
You have to let it go.
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Never.
[fairground games ringing]
[fairground games ringing continues]
[generator thuds]
[crickets chirping]
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[keys rattling]
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[distorted fairground music]
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Hello?
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Hello?
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[generator thuds]
[tense music]
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[generator thuds]
[generator thuds]
Oh, shit, shit!
[metal clanging]
Help! Somebody!
Help! Open the door!
Help! Help!
Somebody open the door!
[door thudding]
[footsteps thudding]
[footsteps thudding continues]
[Troy whimpering]
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[Troy whimpering]
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[Troy whimpering]
[Troy whimpering continues]
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[sinister music]
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Vanessa.
Vanessa.
Where were you this time?
Was it that house, the one with the cross on it?
[wind howling]
Were you at the hotel again?
No, the other place.
Oh. There.
For such specific places like this to pop up into your dreams, it’s most likely a reaction to trauma.
The trauma you experienced at the Abaddon Hotel.
You still haven’t told me everything that happened to you in there.
It will help, you know, to talk about it.
Are you feeling scared?
Maybe it’s anger.
Could it possibly be guilt?
What happened when you were in there this time?
They were all there.
[tense music]
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[wind howling]
[floorboards creaking]
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[floorboards creaking]
[cultist growling]
[Vanessa screams]
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[cultist growling]
I wake up and can’t tell what’s real and what was just a dream.
A nightmare.
You know, this is our third session, and you’ve never told me why you came back to Abaddon.
It’s ’cause I don’t really know.
I just…
After everything that happened to you.
And Tom.
Any chance of reconciling, saving the marriage?
I’ve tried. He won’t speak to me.
I’m, um, uh, toxic to his career.
Whatever excuse he’s going with these days.
In regards to the dreams, strangely enough, I’ve seen an uptick in patients that have been…
Well, they’ve been experiencing personal trauma since the deaths at the Carmichael last year.
How so?
Having dreams that seem so real.
Others have been seeing things while they’re awake.
Things that don’t make sense.
I have one patient whose father was one of the people that disappeared during the Rockland County Fair in the ’90s.
Still unsolved.
He too is having trouble processing it, losing sleep, seeing things.
Abaddon eyes.
[Dr. Farrel] What?
Is he really seeing things?
No, Vanessa. It’s in his head.
It’s a collective trauma that this town is going through.
The deaths of those two young women at the Carmichael is having a traumatic effect on many of the people I see.
What you’re experiencing is perfectly normal.
[atmospheric music]
This will end, Vanessa.
I promise.
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[wind chimes ringing]
[wind howling]
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[tense music]
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Assholes.
[wind howling]
[birds chirping]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[jacket rustles]
[footsteps tapping]
Hey, how was your day?
Uh, wow was therapy?
Same. No answers.
Well, I don’t think that there’s a doctor alive who can tell you why you’re 37 and living with a roommate in Abaddon after dying here years ago.
Here, II want you to try this tea, okay?
It’s said to boost your mood, which clearly you need, and it, like, bolsters the immune system and stuff.
Here.
[Vanessa] Hey, you know what was strange?
[Crystal] What?
I saw Bobby Hopewell in the waiting room.
I haven’t seen him since I first opened the Cellar.
Well, he’s obviously as messed up as you.
Come to the drive-in after your shift tonight.
Only if I got free popcorn.
When have I not snuck you a free popcorn?
Don’t worry about Bobby Hopewell.
[door closes]
[wind howling]
[crickets chirping]
[atmospheric music]
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[Vanessa] Hi, you’ve reached Vanessa Shepherd.
Please leave a message and I’ll call you back.
Uh, Vanessa. Hey, it’s-it’s Bobby.
You know, Bobby Hopewell?
Look, I’m sorry to call you outta the blue.
I, uh, it’s been a while, right?
Look, I’m-I’m sorry about how things went down at the Cellar.
I know it was a shitty thing to do.
But II saw you outside of Dr. Farrel’s today, and, and I really think we should talk.
I mean, especially given with your history at the Abaddon Hotel.
[sighs] Things have been really strange for me as of late.
Someone’s been digging into the town’s past, and they got a hold of me and, and they told me the strangest things, and look, I really think you should hear ’em too.
I mean, hopefully I’m just crazy, right?
Isn’t that why…
Isn’t that why half the people go to Dr. Farrel’s in the first place?
[tense music]
Anyway, please call me back.
I really think we should talk.
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[crickets chirping]
[tense music]
[phone buzzes]
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[sinister music]
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All right, this keeps happening to me.
II don’t know who’s doing it, but I’ve got a pretty good idea of why they’re doing it.
So I’m gonna sweep the house, and I’m gonna record it all.
[Bobby sighs]
[camera clattering]
[camera beeps]
[crickets chirping]
It’s not real. It’s just Abaddon eyes.
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking continues]
It’s not real. It’s not real.
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[footsteps thudding]
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[Bobby whimpers]
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[Bobby screams]
Hi, Vanessa, it’s Dr. Farrel.
I think we need to talk.
Would you mind coming in today?
[door closes]
I found out today that one of my patients was found dead.
Bobby Hopewell.
How?
They don’t know yet.
Suicide?
I’m sorry, II didn’t mean…
It’s just I saw him here the other day, and then he called me.
He called you? What did he say?
We didn’t get a chance to speak.
He just left this long message saying that, um, he wanted to talk to me about my experience at the Abaddon.
He mentioned you in here.
Why me?
I mean, we didn’t even know each other well.
He worked for me for a week when I first opened the Cellar Bar, and then he just kind of flaked out.
His family had seen a similar tragedy as yours.
His father disappeared in 1993, one of many that went missing during the Rockland County Fair.
My mother didn’t go missing.
She’s not even from here, she died in a car crash with my stepfather in 2008.
I know.
And I didn’t know where Bobby’s mind was going myself either, but he was…
He was seeing things before he died.
I’m not seeing things.
I’m having nightmares.
You told me that they would go away.
I know.
[atmospheric music]
I just thought you should know about Bobby, is all.
He…
He thought there was something different about you, but he never said what.
[Vanessa] I’m not different.
I’m the same as every other fucked up person who walks through your door.
[wind howling]
[wind howling continues]
[sinister music]
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[people chattering]
Hi.
I can’t talk right now, I’m about to go into a meeting.
Gotta go.
Tom?
Tom.
[door thuds]
Hey, boss.
Thought you weren’t coming in till tonight.
Yeah, I just wanted somewhere to be alone for a while.
All right, I can take a hint.
Don’t bother Vanessa. I got it.
Hey, um, did you know Bobby Hopewell at all?
Uh, not really.
He went to the same school as me, but he was older.
Why?
He was found dead in his home today.
Nobody knows how it happened.
Jesus.
You didn’t know him much?
No.
But he was an Abaddon lifer, just like me.
An Abaddon lifer?
You know, people who grew up here and never left.
They really don’t know how he died? Are you sure?
Yeah. Are you okay?
Yeah, yeah, I’mI’m fine. Sorry.
Um, also, I was doing inventory in the back and noticed another bottle had been swiped.
You want me to grill the staff, see if anyone knows anything?
No, not right now, just, uh, keep an eye on it for me, please.
Will do.
[upbeat radio music]
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[Vanessa sighs]
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[Vanessa sighs]
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[cultist growls]
[door rattling]
[Vanessa whimpering]
[Vanessa whimpering continues]
♪ Something’s coming ♪
♪ Cold the night comes ♪
♪ All things die and
never come back ♪
♪ Throw the ashes ♪
♪ Grasp your crosses ♪
♪ Pray to him you’ll
never come back ♪
They’re coming for you, Vanessa.
They missed you at the Abaddon.
They’re done missing you.
You’re too important.
[Rebecca] Hello?
[giggles] Shh.
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
Hey.
Jesus.
What’s going on?
Did you hear it?
I don’t know. What did you hear?
It sounded like
Like what?
It sounded like someone was singing downstairs.
Singing?
Like a girl singing.
Hey, where are you going?
Shh!
[Margot] Did you get it on camera?
I don’t think I recorded it in time, but atat least I tried.
[Ghost] They’re already dead. You can’t help them.
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
Vanessa?
Sorry, I know you wanted to be left alone, but there’s someone here to see you.
Uh, who is it?
I don’t know. She’s blonde.
Kind of bitchy.
She’s sitting in the dining room right now.
[tense music]
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Vanessa. I’m Alicia.
You have a minute to talk?
I really admire everything you did at the Abaddon Hotel with, uh, Russell and Insomnia.
You were very brave.
[choral music]
I don’t like to talk about that.
Perfectly understandable.
I mean, what you went through, it’s just, it’s remarkable.
Look, I just wanted to tell you, I know why Bobby Hopewell called you before he died.
Bobby and I have been talking for weeks.
Ever since those three net sleuth people were killed at the Carmichael, he’s been seeing things, things that…
Things that he couldn’t explain and that seemed so real.
[atmospheric music]
[chuckles] We open soon.
I have to get ready. It was nice meeting you.
You never wondered why?
Why you went to the hotel in the first place to cover Insomnia?
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Cards on the table?
This is everything.
About two years ago, I started investigating the deaths of the Carmichael family.
You know about them?
Yeah, I’ve heard the story.
Of course you have.
So, late one night back in 1989, when the Rockland County Fair was closing up, a bunch of very inebriated friends loaded into a truck.
Now, just two miles from the fairgrounds, that truck plowed into Patrick and his sister, Margaret, who were returning home from New York City.
Margaret died.
That’s…
That’s obviously a horrible situation, but whatWhat does that have to do with, with you, with Bobby?
I know. Bobby’s father’s name was Troy Hopewell.
He disappeared in 1993, last seen at the Rockland County Fair.
He stayed late, was drinking.
A few people saw him leaving when the fair was closing down for the night.
Gone.
What most people don’t know is that Troy Hopewell was the driver of the truck that killed Margaret.
Are you saying someone went after him? Like, for revenge?
Vanessa, pretty much everyone in that truck was eventually hunted down.
Winston Jones was another passenger.
He disappeared in 1995, last seen at the Rockland County Fair.
Okay, here’s where it gets interesting.
Before he disappeared, he and his wife had a daughter, in 1990.
They named her Melissa, Melissa Jones.
She would have to drop outta school, take on a bunch of odd jobs to help support her mom, one of those jobs being an actor in a haunted house.
She disappeared inside the basement of the Abaddon Hotel in 2009.
Hell House.
Probably the drunkest person in the truck was a guy named Harper.
Now, he barely remembers the accident at all.
He was found dead in the cornfield near the fairgrounds in 1994, just dead, heart stopped, no signs of trauma.
Next to each of these bodies was a single red ball.
I would bet money that one of these was found by police in Bobby’s home.
What does it mean?
That you’re dead.
Jesus.
And Harper’s last name was Graves.
He was the father of Diane Graves.
Now, Diane left Abaddon as a child, but she would eventually come back as an adult years later.
She disappeared inside the Abaddon Hotel in 2014.
I mean, the lineage of all these people leads back to a smashed pickup truck along Route 103 in 1989.
And there are countless people still connected to the truck occupants.
I think they’re all in danger.
Bobby, he began to figure out he was in danger.
Okay, but I don’t…
I mean, what’s this have to do with me? I’m not from here.
No one in my family was in that pickup.
As far as I can tell, you’re right.
Okay, well, there you go.
But I’m sure Diane had no idea she was far more connected to the hotel than she knew.
But she was drawn back to the town, wasn’t she?
Okay, which is why I’m asking you, what are you doing here?
You survived the Abaddon, and yet you still came back.
Look, okay, this is a list of everyone that was in the truck that night that killed Margaret.
Do you recognize any names?
[atmospheric music continues]
[phone rings]
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[Alicia] Keep calling him.
Is he in danger?
I don’t know, but it’s better if he knows, right?
He already thinks that I’m crazy, this isn’t…
It’s not gonna help.
I’m meeting with a priest tonight, Father David Flannery.
Have you heard of him?
Well, if he agrees to come with me, we’re going to the Carmichael to end this.
Hey, that’s a…
That’s a pretty necklace, by the way.
What is it, if you don’t mind me asking?
Oh, it was my mother’s.
She had two charms for her two children.
It’s a butterfly for me and St. Michael’s for my twin brother.
He didn’t survive childbirth.
I didn’t know you were one of twins.
I’m sorry to hear that.
I’ll be in touch again soon.
[atmospheric music continues]
See you after work, right?
Yeah, I’ll see you after the 5:30.
Okay.
Okay.
[Tom sighs]
[phone vibrating]
Tom.
Yeah, it’s me. What do you need, Vanessa?
I didn’t think you’d call me back. How are you?
I’m fine.
Look, I don’t have a lot of time to talk, so can we please just get to it?
Did you sign the papers?
That would be well worth this phone call.
Uh, not yet.
I will, I just, I need time.
Then why are we talking?
Does it have to be like this?
And why can’t we just have a conversation without it being so hostile?
I’m not being hostile, I’m being impatient, because I have real responsibilities that don’t involve shoveling booze into drunks.
Look, I’m sorry. That was not justified.
I’m, um, I’m just under the gun here with half the town council wanting to reopen the fair, and we have to decide by tomorrow, so can you please just tell me why you’re calling?
Did you get my texts?
[Tom] Yeah, I got them.
I’m in danger from someone who died in the ’80s?
No, it’s not exactly like that.
Well, then who is after me? Is it a ghost?
[Vanessa] Just let me explain.
But we’ve been here before.
You’ve told me all these scary stories already.
You had me cancel a very important event once because of a scary dream.
Do you remember that?
[Vanessa] It wasn’t just a dream.
But nothing happened.
Tom, please, something is seriously wrong this time.
Did you hear about Bobby Hopewell?
Oh, come on.
Nothing happened to Bobby other than poor health.
You know, you never told me how your father died.
Were you too young to remember?
My father? What the hell are you talking about?
Look, I gotta go.
Just sign the papers.
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
[sinister music]
Hello?
[sinister music continues]
[breath rasping]
[breath rasping]
[Vanessa whimpering]
[sinister music continues]
Vanessa?
Hey.
[Vanessa whimpering]
Hey, talk to me. Did you see something?
Talk to me. Did you see something?
I don’t wanna talk about it.
You have to! You have to talk about it!
I don’t want to!
I do! Vanessa, please!
What happened to you?
Did you see something?
[tense music]
Max, II can’t. I can’t.
[tense music continues]
[traffic rumbling]
[crickets chirping]
[crickets chirping continues]
[ball bouncing]
[crickets chirping continues]
Hello?
[crickets chirping continues]
Is someone out there?
[crickets chirping continues]
Hello?
I know someone’s here.
[footsteps tapping]
[floorboards creaking]
[footsteps tapping]
[footsteps tapping continues]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
[wind whooshes]
Who the hell are you?
What do you want?
[footsteps tapping]
[intense music]
Stop!
[Tom whimpering]
[door banging]
[body crunching]
[machine whirring]
[moviegoers chattering]
[upbeat radio music]
[upbeat radio music continues]
Hey, is that Vanessa?
Yeah, that’s Vanessa.
She don’t look so good.
Do you mind?
Yeah, go.
Sorry.
Vanessa, are you okay?
What, what happened?
II don’t know, Cryst, it just…
I need to be around people right now.
Okay, yeah, that’s good, yeah.
You’re okay here.
You’re okay now.
[moviegoers chattering continues] Popcorn on the house, okay?
Go enjoy the movie, and then I’m off just after it ends, and then you can drive us home, okay?
Thanks.
[sirens wailing]
[dramatic movie music]
[dramatic movie music continues]
[projector clanks]
[tense music]
[trees cracking]
♪ Some things call me ♪
♪ Cold the night falls ♪
♪ All things die and
never come back ♪
♪ Throw the ashes ♪
♪ Grasp your crosses ♪
♪ Pray to him you’ll
never come back ♪
[tense music continues]
He’s coming for you, Vanessa.
This time, you die for good.
He’s behind you, Vanessa.
Look.
[tense music]
[Vanessa screaming]
[Vanessa screaming continues]
Vanessa! Vanessa, what happened?
What happened? Are you okay?
He’s in my car! He’s in my car!
[Crystal] Okay, okay.
[Vanessa whimpering]
There’s nobody here, Crystal.
[Vanessa sobs]
Okay, okay. It’s okay, it’s okay.
There was nothing in there.
[Vanessa sobs]
You’re gonna love this, okay? This is a calming tea.
It’s said to relax the nerves and help produce, you know, a calming effect on the body and help with stress, so I think that…
I guess that works too.
That can get out of control pretty quick, if it hasn’t already.
Don’t judge me, ’cause I don’t need that right now.
I’m not judging, I’m just…
Something’s happening to me.
I don’t, I don’t know what to do.
Well, you won’t talk about what happened to you.
Hey, I really think that you should talk about–
What do you wanna know, Crystal?
How every day, I wonder how I’m alive, after feeling the life pour out of me and everything going black in that basement?
None of us know.
There have been two suicides in the Insomnia cast alone.
[Vanessa sobs]
But none of that is your fault, soYes, it is! It is all my fault!
I’m the only one who figured out what Russell was up to, and I let it happen!
I was an active participant!
[Vanessa sobs]
[tense music]
Shh, shh, it’s okay.
Hey, you’re okay now.
But it’s not over, Cryst.
For some reason, I was supposed to die that night at the Abaddon Hotel, just like Margot Bentley was supposed to die at the Rockland County Fair.
These things, they never stop.
Okay, okay, listen.
Nobody is gonna get in here.
And if they do, they’re gonna have to come through me.
No, that’s…
I don’t think you’re all that intimidating.
Well, that’s my advantage, you know?
No one expects anything from me, but then, knife to the throat.
[wind howling]
[crickets chirping]
[wind howling continues]
[crickets chirping]
[atmospheric music]
[atmospheric music continues]
[door knocking]
Hi.
Are…
Are, are you Father David?
You’re, you’re a priest?
Do you want me to put it on?
[chuckles] No, I, um…
I was told to reach out to you because you take on odd jobs outside the church.
Crossdenominational conflict resolution.
House calls and such. I mostly just counsel addicts now.
Is there a residence you want me to visit?
The Carmichael Manor.
[David chuckles]
You know about it?
Of course I know about it, lady.
Alicia.
Alicia, I was one of the two priests that were brought in to, well, to mitigate what was going on in this town when those freaks were doing God knows what in that basement.
So, why do you need a Catholic priest?
What, what could I possibly do for you?
Uh…
You wanna exercise the Carmichael.
Holy shit.
What do you think?
You know, when I think about the Carmichael Manor, an old poem by Frost comes to mind.
“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”
What does that mean?
Well, the concept of home is something that I’ve always thought about, something that feels essential to ending the Abaddon story.
“In that vanished abode, there far apart, on that disused and forgotten road, “night comes, the black bats tumble and dart.”
By home, you mean the Carmichael?
No, the Carmichael is a home. But is it the home?
I guess I don’t know.
[wind howling]
[noise banging]
[crickets chirping]
[crickets chirping continues]
[tense music]
[Vanessa screams]
[door creaks]
[floorboards creaking]
[footsteps thudding]
[Vanessa whimpering]
[Vanessa whimpering continues]
[furniture creaking]
[bed squeaking]
[intense music]
[Vanessa screaming]
Vanessa! Vanessa, what’s happening?
What’s happening? It’s okay.
What happened? What happened?
There’s something in my room, Cryst, I swear.
Okay, Vanessa, trust me, there’s nothing in here.
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
Will you come to the Carmichael Manor?
Did something come for you?
No, not for me. Not yet.
But I mean, ever since the deaths at the Carmichael last year, it’s only getting worse.
Father, you can’t expect me to finish this on my own.
I can’t possibly–
No, you can’t.
And that’s why you shouldn’t go there either. Ever.
[tense music continues]
[tense music continues]
What’s the saying?
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.”
It’s not that black and white. Nothing ever is.
I’ll be there at 3:00 PM tomorrow.
[tense music continues]
Any word from Tom?
Listen, I want you to hold onto this until I get back from the Carmichael today.
[box rustling]
[box rustling]
What is this?
This is everything Margot and Rebecca found.
My colleague, Bradley, was able to get most of it back with her belongings.
Why do you want me to hold onto this for you?
You know, just in case something happens to me at the Carmichael.
Bradley and I are convinced that there’s something in these papers that’s key.
We’re just not seeing it.
[tense music]
Uh, that’s Freddy Perkins and Thomas Rollins at the fair in West Virginia.
We think that both Freddy and Thomas were Tully’s closest associates when he formed the cult.
And Bradley was onto something with these pictures.
Go ahead, look at the back.
Numbers.
Mmhm.
What do you suppose they mean?
I don’t know, but I would love to find out.
All right, well, it’s time for me to go.
Wish us luck.
Alicia.
I know. I’ll be okay.
[tense music continues]
[phone buzzing]
[tense music continues]
I have to say, I do appreciate you coming out.
Mind you, nobody has attempted anything like this.
At least not here.
Unfortunately, what happened to the three of them falls on me.
[atmospheric music]
It’s not your fault.
You couldn’t have known.
I wish you luck. Are you sure the priest is coming?
[sighs] I guess not.
[atmospheric music continues]
Welcome to the Lonely House.
Are you sure you’re ready for this?
[tense music]
I’m ready.
Thank you for being here with me, Father.
Don’t thank me yet.
Please, do what you need to.
[tense music continues]
[door creaks]
[tense music continues]
[birds chirping]
Hey, Max?
What are you doing out here?
When we were younger, we used to dare each other to come out here and just peek into the Abaddon Hotel’s windows.
Did anyone ever do it?
Some people claim they did, but they didn’t really.
But I did.
[Vanessa] You did what?
I came out here, just a few years after Hell House.
I looked in the windows, too, but II never told anyone.
I was too afraid to talk about it.
It was so scary back then.
But now it’s just this…
What happened when you came out here?
Nothing.
It was just an abandoned hotel where a tragedy happened.
But when I was walking away, I heard a creaking noise, and then the door opened, just a little bit.
I stopped and stared at it, nearly pissing myself.
And I swear I could see someone just inside, in the shadows, where the daylight stopped and the darkness took over.
Like he wanted to be seen, but not seen at the same time.
What was he doing?
He was beckoning to me, like a friendly invitation.
“Just come on inside the Abaddon, kid.”
He was trying to draw me in.
I knew if I went inside, I would die, so I just ran.
I ran the four miles all the way back home and pretended it never happened.
Why are you telling me this now, Max?
Because whatever was in that hotel, it’s out now.
It’s among us.
[sinister music]
[sinister music continues]
[gasps] Jesus.
[sinister music continues]
I thought they took these assholes out.
Are you okay?
Yeah, yeah.
Hopefully that’s the biggest scare we get in here.
Where do you wanna do this?
Let’s look around.
[sinister music continues]
Holy shit.
Is this where it was on Margot’s video?
Okay, let’s start upstairs then.
[sinister music continues]
[door creaking]
[door creaking continues]
[sinister music continues]
Not the parents’ room.
And I’d rule out the children’s room as well.
Okay, but that only leaves the
[door bangs]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking continues]
Father?
[David] Who’s there? Show yourself!
[floorboards creaking]
[tense music]
[door bangs]
[Alicia gasps]
Every night, I wake up to a dead girl in my room with me.
I can’t tell if she’s real or if I’m dreaming.
My phone keeps ringing, I pick it up, and all I hear is breathing on the other end.
That could be a prank.
No.
I got some help tracking down the number that calls me almost daily now.
[Vanessa] What is it?
[tense music]
It’s the out of service number for the Carmichael Manor.
[floorboards creaking]
[tense music continues]
[ghost gasping]
[ghost gasping continues]
Talk to it.
Just ignore it and walk away.
This house is trying to scare you away.
Get a rise out of you, get you to lose faith.
It’s working.
[Ghost] Help me. [gasping]
[ghost laughing]
[ghost laughing continues]
Come on.
[tense music]
[ghost humming]
[tense music continues]
Don’t go in there.
[tense music continues]
Thanks for taking the time to chat with me, Rebecca.
I’m a big fan of yours.
Sure, Alicia, thank you.
We’re all fans of yours.
So, tell me about your time at the Carmichael.
[Rebecca] The Carmichael Manor is where I died.
[Alicia] Excellent.
And where are you now?
[Rebecca] In the realm of darkness and pain.
Lovely.
I’m about to die in the Carmichael too, and I cannot wait to join you there.
Oh, we’re waiting, Alicia.
We’re so excited for you to join us.
We’re waiting.
Don’t listen to it, Alicia.
Walk to me.
[floorboards creaking]
[Alicia whimpering]
[sound crunching]
[tense music]
[Alicia whimpering]
[Alicia whimpering continues]
[Alicia whimpering continues]
You have to block it out.
Don’t let it get into your head. Don’t engage.
Alicia, you have to listen to me.
I know what I’m talking about.
Are we, are we gonna die in here?
No, no.
But that’s what it wants us to believe, because it knows what we’re really doing here.
How do you know?
I don’t. I just have faith.
[tense music continues]
[Alicia sighs]
I found this.
[tense music]
Max.
Means I’m fucked.
Me and Bobby grew up next to each other.
Our parents were close.
We’re linked by so much more than just being neighbors.
My grandpa got into that same pickup truck back in 1989.
That one mistake has bonded so many of us for years.
It’s a blood bond. We’re dead because of it.
No, Max, you’re not.
I found a red ball in my arm, too.
You did?
Yeah.
And I’m still alive.
We’re gonna fight this. Believe me, Max.
Don’t be naive.
There’s no stopping it.
Can’t fight it. How do you stop a ghost?
It can’t be permanent.
Nothing can be permanent.
Death is permanent.
Our families killed that poor girl.
Now we’re forced to pay the price for it.
Unless…
[tense music]
Jesus, Max.
I’m not gonna let them get me.
[Alicia sighs]
Why don’t we just do this in the dining room?
I think the living room.
I think the place that the family gathered most often is the best place to perform the ritual.
[sighs] I knew you were gonna say that.
[floorboards creaking]
[tense music continues]
Max, listen to me. Listen to me.
Don’t do this, okay?
We can stop this, but I can’t do it alone.
So please, please don’t do this. [sobs] That is crazy.
I’d rather you didn’t watch. Please.
I think you should take this from me after.
Don’t let them get you.
No, Max, I am not going to kill myself, and neither are you!
Please, please don’t do this!
Look away, Vanessa.
Please, please, please, don’t do this! [sobs] [Max] Please look away.
Please! Please, please don’t!
You can’t! Please!
[gun bangs]
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
[Margot] Come on, Chase.
Please don’t do this.
Don’t do this, don’t do this, don’t do this. [sighs]
[tense music continues]
Where’d you go, Chase?
Come on.
Hey, Margot.
Margot, it’s time to go.
What? No, we are not leaving here without my brother.
What?
And what if something happened to him?
What are we gonna do, just wait for something to happen to us?
Are you serious?
No, you know my brother, he’s gonna be fine!
He probably just had another episode and he’s coming back!
[Rebecca] Right, right, he just wandered off again with his bag in the middle of the hallway, without his phone.
Are you serious right now?
Can we just give him more time while the sun is up?
Doesn’t that make
Margot, I don’t want to wait here another second!
Please, don’t make me!
[Margot] Can we just give him more time, and we will leave before it is dark, I promise!
[wind howling]
[car door clicks]
[wind howling continues]
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
[somber music]
[somber music continues]
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
“He wants Beverly found and safely brought back to hotel of fear she might be pregnant”?
“Please handle with caution.”
[Margot] Who the fuck is Beverly?
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
This is where we do it.
Clear a spot on the table for me.
Okay.
[furniture scraping]
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, the most glorious prince of the heavenly armies, Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us.
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking continues]
Defend us against the spirits of the dark world and the spirits of wickedness.
[tense music continues]
We drive you from us, evil spirits.
We drive you back to nowhere, and with the power of Christ, forbid you to inhabit the world of life.
Father.
Father.
What is it?
Where did that come from?
[fire whooshes]
Alicia, I need you to focus.
Light the candles.
[sighs] Okay.
Shit.
[David] In the name of Jesus Christ, our God and Lord, strengthened by the intercession of the immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Michael, the Archangel, of the blessed Apostles, Peter, Paul, and all the saints.
[tense music]
[tense music continues]
Okay.
We drive you from us, evil spirits.
We drive you back to nowhere, and with the power of Christ, forbid you to inhabit the world of life.
Don’t look at it.
By the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, may you be driven from this home, driven from all homes, driven from the souls of the Carmichael family.
Their souls belongs to the Lord.
Be gone from them. Be gone from them, serpent.
The Word, God, the Father, commands you.
God, the Son, commands you.
God, the Holy Ghost…
[tense music continues]
[Alicia whimpering]
[sinister music]
[bones cracking]
[ghost screeching]
[gentle music]
[gentle music continues]
Check it out, more numbers. Weird.
[tense music]
[ghosts screaming and wailing]
[ghosts screaming and wailing continues] Saints, holy saints, commands you.
The Virgin Mary, mother of God, commands you.
[ghosts screaming and wailing]
Be gone, Satan, master of all disease.
[ghosts screaming drowns out David] Be gone from this home.
Be gone from this home.
[material ripping]
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come…
[ghost laughing]
Where are you going to go, Father?
[David] Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
There is no heaven, Father.
Our blood rules in here.
Give us this day–
Don’t finish the prayer, Father.
He said he’ll spare you and just gut the bitch.
[Alicia sobs]
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive–
We’ll rip you apart like animals first.
Who trespass against us.
[ghost laughs]
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
[bones crunch]
[blood squelches]
[Alicia screams]
[blood squelches]
Vanessa.
[atmospheric music]
[atmospheric music continues]
They didn’t make it.
What?
[sinister music]
[Alicia whimpering]
[Alicia sobs]
[intense music]
[Alicia screams]
[crickets chirping]
The Lonely House.
It isn’t the Carmichael Manor. It never was.
Where’s the Lonely House, Max?
You’ve seen it.
[atmospheric music]
[atmospheric music continues]
[ravens squawking]
[atmospheric music continues]
[ravens squawking]
[atmospheric music continues]
[Patrick] This was you and Tommy before you met him?
[Freddy] That was actually taken three days before we met Mr. Tully.
[Patrick] I don’t get it, Freddy, why here?
Why do you want me to hang on to all this stuff for you?
Because it has to live outside of the hotel now.
[tense music]
It’s the last of what ties us to the Clarksburg Fair.
When we cross over to the other side, everything will change, forever.
We become immortal.
As long as his blood is safely secured in the soil, we live on.
That was the promise.
What soil?
Don’t worry about it. It’s locked away and buried forever.
And should you ever need the numbers, just look.
Buried where? At his home?
Don’t say another word, Patrick.
She knows.
How does she know?
Because she’s one of the two, the two that spawned from Beverly.
[tense music continues]
Beverly had twins.
Who’s the other?
[atmospheric music]
Hey!
Hey!
Stop!
[atmospheric music continues]
Mitchell?
[atmospheric music continues]
[sinister music]
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[sinister music]
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