Texas-born documentarian George Rattliff's even-handed film chronicles the making of a Christian "Hell House," an annual event staged on Halloween by Trinity Church of Cedar Hills, Tex., a pentacostal house of worship that uses Halloween as an opportunity to scare holiday thrill and chill seekers onto the path of righteousness. Though the film stops short of endorsing Trinity's fire-and-brimstone brand of witnessing, it also refrains from mocking the earnest participants who spend the better part of two months building the physical Hell House — actually a cluster of connected trailers — and scripting, staging, costuming and casting elaborate skits that depict such si...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins