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This sober, access-driven documentary expands Hell House’s concern with evangelical ideology into its real-world consequences, retaining an unsettling focus on conviction, ceremony, and influence.
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Its close, patient observation of people confronting a restrictive religious community carries the same discomforting intimacy as Hell House, while centering personal stakes rather than staged spectacle.
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This investigative series examines a secretive Christian political network with the same unnerving interest in how religious conviction is organized, presented, and leveraged beyond private faith.
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01 / THE STORY
Filmmaker George Ratliff explores the bizarre phenomenon of Halloween "hell houses": evangelical fright fests that use grisly skits to demonstrate the consequences of homosexuality, abortion, drug use and other condemned behaviors. This documentary chronicles a full performance season at the original hell house in Dallas -- which boasts an annual audience of more than 10,000 people -- and investigates whether its organizers go too far in their attempt to save souls.
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