Anyone else think he’s the most tragic character in modern found footage?
I feel like people sleep on Mitchell when discussing the Hell House movies. Yes, the clown is iconic. Yes, the basement reveal is terrifying. But Mitchell’s slow descent from skeptical journalist to completely broken survivor is the emotional anchor of the whole trilogy.
But what makes him so haunting? His arc across the trilogy. By Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel , he’s broken—obsessed, paranoid, desperate to prove what he saw was real. And in III: Lake of Fire … that ending. No spoilers, but if you know, you know .