SPOILERS AHEAD. Neville returned the female darkseeker, realizing that his previous assumptions were wrong and that the darkseekers did retain some of their humanity. Then there are horror films that scare you to death. Neville then gives Anna potentially cured blood from The Alpha Male's mate and allows Anna & Ethan to hide in a smaller shelter behind them and sacrifices himself with a grenade, killing himself, The Alpha Male and the rest of the horde. 01 (4.65): Newlyweds enjoy a honeymoon, and then her sister arrives. As they explore the property, they find a rope hanging from the attic and a pentagram drawn on a basement wall, which set the tone for all that would unfold in the following series of events. Incest/Taboo 11/27/19 They set up a few grotesque plastic figures in place, and in good humor, test whether the heads of the mannequins move or not. There are horror films that make you laugh. He didn't show signs of recovery, still grieving over Sam's death and harshly responding to Anna's demands to go to Vermont to find a human colony (he reacted by throwing a plate at a kitchen cupboard and angrily yelling to her to shut up), and when Anna came later and told her that it was a plan, he gave her the statistics of progression of KV and then shouted that everyone they know is dead. We get to know from an interviewee that Abaddon is the name of the demon who guards the gates of hell. He knew the possibility of a cure for the KV infection, and he thought that curing it is his true purpose. He electrified the house using several Honda gasoline-powered engines as power generators, and has scavenged huge supplies of canned food throughout the house. Sam died shortly after and Neville was left alone and extremely upset. The following night, Neville discovered that it was still dark when Anna and Ethan escaped to Neville's home with him, allowing the infected to trace them back to there. The helicopter then began to leave, but at that moment, another helicopter across the river, also leaving, was attacked by a horde of infected, causing it to crash into the other helicopter and kill Neville's family as he watched. The tour takes the audience through the dark and dingy corridors to the basement, but we suddenly see people frantically running up the stairs, and the camera runs along with them. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Robert Neville was the main protagonist of I Am Legend. The detailed day-by-day Route 66 itinerary covers all the basic details (mileage, general route) and sightseeing highlights along the 2,400 mile route. While no town of that name exists in the country, the name holds a special significance in the context of the film. We get to know that the previous owner of the property, a hotelier named Andrew Tully, hanged himself following the mysterious disappearance of a mother and her 11-year-old daughter from the Hell House, which was a hotel then. In his lab, he also has a special table for Darkseekers, which he chains up and injects with a large dosage of sedatives (in the movie, it is said that it's 6 times the normal human dosage), and then tests the promising compound on the Darkseekers. However, he was saved by Anna and Ethan. An alpha male then attempted to rescue her, but was driven back by the sunlight. Neville activated landmines and UV work-lights in an attempt to repel the mob, but this only killed the first wave of infected and used up all of the defences against the second wave. A giant horde of Darkseekers invaded the house. This is the question that keeps us hooked to the storyline till the very end. Big City Greens is an animated comedy series produced for Disney Channel, created by Chris and Shane Houghton (colloquially known as the Houghton Brothers), who both previously worked as writers on Harvey Beaks.Rob Renzetti (My Life as a Teenage Robot) served as an executive producer on the first season.The show premiered June 18, 2018. He also came back for Nights 4 and 5 of the Five Nights at Freddy's musical series. And the next thing we know, the inanimate clowns start moving in and around the house. All in the Family: 2 Part Series: All in the Family Ch. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. A military virologist, Neville spent three years in Manhattan searching for a cure to the Krippin Virus. Neville rushed a weak Sam back to his home and attempted to save her using his new serum. Sister and niece (who was 2) go into a stall together. The scene cuts to news clippings that depict the horrifying incident that establishes the premise of the film. Premier League hits and misses: Liverpool labour to Aston Villa victory, but win will be vital. Abaddon is the name of the town where the Hell House is situated. He has many medical instruments which he uses to draw his blood, which he attempts to use to create specific compounds to cure the rats. He is a very organized person: he keeps his home fortified and stacked, he has strict daily routines and has a map showing how much he explored of the city. With the survivors trapped behind a plexiglass in the basement, The Alpha Male begins bombarding the glass until it begins to crack. Neville's Washington Square home is heavily fortified. https://imlegend.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Neville_(film)?oldid=5656. The next day, as a sign of respect and love, a grieving Neville buried Sam in Central Park. Neville tried to stick to his routines, but his guilt and sadness over losing Sam and being all alone, and unable to talk to anyone, cause him to suffer a mental breakdown. Karnazes lays out his life philosophy in this book. Overcome with rage, the next night, at the South Street Seaport, Neville used his SUV to attack a horde of infected, killing a large number of them in the process, as retribution for Sam and so as to commit suicide at their hands, no longer having a reason whatsoever to continue. Besides Sara and Alex, the crew consists of three others: Tony, the technical manager, Paul, the cameraperson, and Mac, Alex’s business partner. In the movie, from the 18 compounds tested, 7 compounds killed the host, 10 showed no effect, but a single one, Compound 6, showed progression. We are told through title cards that Mitchell from the filmmaking crew catalogs the footage delivered by Sara after the departure of Diane. She also suggests that the interviewing crew should go to the location themselves to get a better picture of the house. He has a Mac computer with a portable web camera, during which he records daily testing and attaches the camera to his glasses to show the infected rats and Darkseekers. As Diane and her cameraperson break into the site of horror, they get a call from Mitchell, which they blatantly ignore. Another episode finds a dumbstruck Paul sitting on the basement floor following Paul’s encounter with the girl’s ghost. He also has a treadmill and a pole, on which he has a daily workout session along with Sam. Told in a mockumentary format, the story follows a group of documentary filmmakers as they try to trace their way back to a seemingly inexplicable tragedy that took place in a spook house in 2009 on the eve of Halloween. Sara abruptly ends the interview by saying that she is feeling sick and is going to take a few hours’ rest in her room, numbered 2C. Neville searched for Anna and Ethan, but as he did, a Darkseeker broke into the house and tore a hole in the ceiling, allowing more infected to enter the house. It is unclear exactly when the survivors leave - presumably once the sun has risen as it does every other day, but the cure to the KV virus prevails with them and together they journey to the colony of survivors, leading a seemingly simple lifestyle; leading us to hope that humanity will not repeat the same mistakes, realizing the sacrifices made to be given a new start. What she finds is spine-chilling, to say the least. His sanity is one of the key elements throughout the film: He dedicated his life to cure the KV, but due to constant failure in the last 3 years, his mental stability seems to have lowered down. Once Neville was finally able to begin to overcome his grief and warm up to Anna and Ethan, Anna explained that she and Ethan were travelling to Bethel, Vermont in hopes of finding a colony of survivors there. He was the head of the U.S military project to cure the KV infection while it was still active during the 2009 infection. The alpha male Darkseeker from the building then emerged from the Grand Terminal Station and released three infected dogs on Sam and Neville, which were held back only by a thinning beam of sunlight. She also revealed to Neville that she believed this was all part of a plan. Talk about an excellent find! Diane asks the hotel receptionist to inform Sara that they are going out, only to find that no Sara Havel is staying at the hotel and that the hotel rooms don’t have letters assigned to them. 1 Biography 2 In The Alternate Ending 3 Personality 4 House Before the helicopter carrying Zoe and Marley left, Marley gave Neville their dog, Samantha, to look after. I've long been a fan of ultra-distance runner Dean Karnazes, whose autobiographical book Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner, is on my Kindle and often referred to. A clip sees a dazed Paul stabbing Sara and slitting his own throat shortly after. A video that the film claims is uploaded on YouTube shows a tour-goer’s perspective of what went wrong at the “Hell House” on the night of its opening. When Neville awoke, it was already dusk and Sam was faithfully waiting for him. A series of well-executed jump scares and supernatural shenanigans follow as the trajectory of the film moves towards the predetermined fate of people involved in the nightmare. A military virologist, Neville spent three years in Manhattan searching for a cure to the Krippin Virus. Neville and the alpha male exchanged stares, with Neville apologizing, which the alpha male accepted. And later still, we see the seemingly plastic clown placed in the basement moving through the stairs in the darkness and hooded skeletal beings appearing on the corridor, as a horrified Paul captures the events on film. After Manhattan was quarantined and destroyed by KV, Neville spent the next three years with only Sam as a companion, and set up mannequins as patrons at the local video store to help Neville retain his sanity. He is tormented by frequent nightmares of the night in which his family has died, and his loneliness is one of the highlighted aspects in the film: his relationship with his dog, Sam, is a closest one (and the only one) he has in the film, running into an insecure, dark building full of Darkseekers to save her, and his daily conversations with her. A Deal's a Deal (x.xx): Carol makes a choice between losing her ride or her clothes. All seems well until Neville notices "Fred", one of the video store mannequins, out on the street of the Grand Terminal Station. Despite Neville's best attempts, Sam eventually succumbed to the virus and tried to maul Neville, forcing him to reluctantly strangle her, looking away and feeling heartbroken and filled with sadness and grief. Hell House LLC Ending: What Happens in the Basement? He usually keeps Darkseekers behind a plexiglass in case they break through the chains. Back at his home, Neville noted in his log the male Darkseeker’s unusual behaviour, hypothesizing that the Darkseeker's social de-evolution was complete. Although Neville used the reflectors and mines to destroy the first wave, he was defenseless against the second wave and they bursted through the house. We also see a clown running against the traffic, which is perhaps odd but can be dismissed as a technical glitch. If you are wondering what’s in the basement (we know that you want to know), we’ll try to break down the ending for you. Anna made Neville bacon for breakfast the next morning, but the latter, still stricken with grief over Sam's death, coldly rejected the two at first. We cannot decipher what goes wrong in the basement, but we hear a shriek that does not seem to be pre-recorded. However, the next set of events unfold rapidly and in a way that the viewer would not have anticipated. They are on their way from NY to Abaddon, where they have bought an old hotel intending to renovate it as a scare house, which becomes the Hell House. The final moments of the film provide a nightmarish conclusion to this horrific tale. Shortly after, Neville set up a snare trap by a back door into the building, using a vial of his blood to draw out a female Darkseeker into the trap and capture her. Her death, and more specifically, at his own hands, caused him a severe mental breakdown, and even though he tried to go through his regular routines the next day (during which he buried Sam in Central Park), he went into a rage and angrily drove through the streets of New York at night, slamming and running down large numbers of dark seekers until he crashed, attempting to commit suicide at the darkseekers' hands. Seemingly shot on a phone camera, the video begins with a queue of the audience waiting to experience the spectacle of the haunted house. His only weapons against the Darkseekers is a huge stack of military rifles in a closet near the front door, large UV reflectors on the roof, and claymore mines buried all over the house up to the street which can be activated by him in case of an emergency. The English meaning of the Hebrew name is “destruction.” In the Hebrew Bible, Abaddon is used to refer to a bottomless pit, also known as “the realm of the dead.” The diabolical name of the fictional township aptly sets the tone of the film and lets viewers anticipate the series of horrific events that unfold in the course of the film. Exhibitionist & Voyeur 07/12/17: Ashley's Temptations: 3 Part Series: Ashley's Temptations (x.xx): Little Ashley is ⦠The rest of the film tries to take the audience back to this moment of rupture from different perspectives and construct the timeline of doom from scratch. This is the question that keeps us hooked to the storyline till the very end. Sara provides more footage from which the filmmakers can reconstruct the timeline. Then, we hear the first-hand account of the Hell House from Sara Havel, a member, as the documentary filmmakers interview her. Neville's daily routine during this time included experimenting on infected rats in search of a cure to KV, and sending out a daily radio broadcast to any other immune survivors to meet him at the South Street Seaport at midday. The lawyer stated that the money they got in the bag was worth around $23,000. The hooded leader of the ungodly apparitions slits Melissa’s throat, and she is left screaming and bleeding as the crowd frantically tries to get out of the Hell House. On the American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show Saturday Night Live (SNL), a commercial advertisement parody is commonly shown after the host's opening monologue. As the Alpha Male darkseeker was breaking through the plexiglass, he smeared a butterfly shape on it, and Neville realized that the alpha male was identifying the female by her butterfly tattoo, and wanted her back. During the tour, we see a bunch of props, fake spider webs, and grotesque mannequins – things one would normally expect from a spook house. He also hunts for deer and keeps them in the house. I had observed she had been dancing with several different partners , making that note after she had first attracted my interest, and saw she was now, once again, alone. Situated in Abaddon, Rockland County, New York, the now-abandoned spook house is central to a mystery following the baffling death of 15 on its inaugural night on October 8th, 2009. It is seen that his house is actually his old family home, which he never left. One vital point that raises the question of his sanity is his conversations he holds with mannequins at a video store, where he interacts with the mannequins as they are genuine human beings, which show his personality as a kind, extrovert and outgoing person that he was before the KV spread. In his office room, he has a Mac computer on which he records daily entries about his life through the last 3 years and also about several New York locations on which he has discovered a nest of Darkseekers, large supplies, etc. I Am Legend Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. The infected, led by the alpha male from the building and the Grand Terminal Station, managed to overwhelm Neville despite the heavy casualties, but before they could finish him off, survivors Anna and Ethan arrived to save Neville and return with him to his home. At one point in the film, the audience finds a seemingly hypnotized Sara chanting a Latin hymn in the basement, which seems Satanic from the sound of it. We see photos of a blood-stained floor clicked by photographer Martin Cliver, who broke into the scene shortly after the tragedy. © 2021 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Two Darkseekers pounced onto Neville, but he was able to escape the building and into daylight by running through a window, the sunlight killing the attacking infected. The viewers get to know from the footage that Sara is the girlfriend of Alex, who is the main organizer and owner of the Hell House. However, Neville was both skeptical that there was a refugee colony, and that there was a plan, citing the billion deaths, caused by the Krippin Virus and the aftermath that has left some of the world population immune and the rest infected. In the YouTube footage, we see a hoard of frenzied tour-goers fleeing from the basement but are unable to make anything of it due to the ruckus and the jarring camera movements typical of a found footage narrative. While Melissa, an actress hired for the show, discloses this information to the crew, she is unable to tell whether or not Tully performed satanic rituals in the basement. There are horror films that keep you tied to the chair. Running is the ultimate nonmaterialism activity, in my opinion. Sara Havel gives an interview and provides a repository of footage to the unsuspecting documentary filmmakers. The most interesting aspect of his home is his underground lab, on which he experiments with the KV in order to find the cure. During the day, Neville and Sam would hunt the deer that had migrated into New York, while at night, they would hide out in their secure apartment from the infected. Every window, even those on the front door, have special iron curtains that can be locked to prevent the Darkseekers from coming in. At midday, when Neville was playing golf at the South Street Seaport while waiting for survivors, Sam spotted a Darkseeker, which she chased into a dark, derelict building. Read More: Best Found Footage Horror Movies Ever. Dubbed as ‘Hell House LLC,’ the film succeeds in conjuring a simulation of hell in the viewer’s mind through its near-perfect execution of the found footage trope, previously explored by trendsetters such as ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Cloverfield.’. As Neville was driving around Manhattan with Sam, he jokingly told Sam that Sam must tell him if she has prepared a birthday celebration for him as he hates surprises. The basement trope is a staple in horror films, but ‘Hell House LLC’ takes the familiar trope to a new height through its effective use of blurry found-footage cinematography. They happen to discover a room numbered 2C in the Hell House, where they encounter a phantom Sara and two shadowy figures coming towards them, after which the camera seemingly falls to the ground. ‘Hell House LLC’ opens with Diane Graves, a documentary filmmaker, and her crew turning up in front of a seemingly abandoned house, which is the site of a tragedy that took place five years earlier. His house was invaded by Darkseekers when they discovered the location (since Anna didn't wait until dawn to enter the house, despite her claims). When it went worldwide and eventually destroyed the rest of humanity, Neville continued to operate despite the possibility being little to almost none. He has a large cage containing 18 rats, on which he has injected 18 different compounds from the GA Series Serum 391. Fearfully, Neville followed Sam in, where the two were attacked and chased through the building by the infected colony residing within it. Neville rushed her home and injected her with the Compound six in a desperate attempt to save her, but when she showed the early stages of the KV infection, he was forced to strangle her to death. I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic action thriller film loosely based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson.Directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, the film stars Will Smith as US Army virologist Robert Neville. The current song was ending and I caught up with my quarry as she began nicely swishing her way off the dance floor. He also has a large stack of Bob Marley CDs and iPod also contains Bob Marley songs, which he regularly plays and sings during the movie. He also keeps medical records of all captured Darkseekers, which he hunts only when one of the rats show progress with a compound. He also keeps a supply of DVDs and recordings of news dating 2009: he watches them as he eats lunch, and he mostly kept recordings that showed the progression of the KV across the world, and also has a recording of Dr. Alice Krippin being interviewed before the KV mutated. Markiplier (Night 1)", and "Five Nights at Freddy's: The Musical â Night 2". Route 66 is the ultimate American road trip and we've put together a comprehensive 2 week Route 66 itinerary to help drivers navigate this historic route. Eventually, the beam thinned enough for the infected dogs to cross and attack. Never-Ending Findings. Anna & Ethan eventually make it to the Vermont colony and gives the authority the cure, thus fulfilling Neville's promise. Despite the bad start, Neville eventually accepted and warmed up to Anna and Ethan; this is shown when Neville quotes lines from "Shrek" which he memorized, whilst Ethan is watching the said animation movie, when Neville picks up a sleeping Ethan and puts him to sleep in Marley's room, and when Neville tried to educate Anna on the music and messages of singer Bob Marley, of whom Neville was very fond of as he named his deceased daughter after the Jamaican singer and was particularly fond of his song "Three Little Birds" which he was shown listening to while showering Sam and when he showed it to Anna. They were shocked and surprised, so they contacted the lawyer who helped them estimate the value of all the cash. Stephen Cognetti’s foray into the found-footage horror genre falls into the third category. My entire family was out for dinner one night, and my sister, my niece, and I were waiting in line in the women's bathroom. The suggestion is that Sara’s ghost has lured the documentary crew into her dungeon, and the fate of doom has befallen a curious Diane. Later, from the clips provided by Sara, we see the pentagram and Bibles in the basement, which Sara rightly finds suspicious. The next day was Neville's birthday. Robert Neville was the main protagonist of I Am Legend. Confused and enraged, Neville demanded answers from "Fred" before shooting the mannequin with his Colt Law Enforcement Model 6920 Carbine. Mark played the trumpet while attending Milford High School and had a solo in their 2006 marching show, which made it to the semifinals of the 2006 Bands of America Grand Nationals. His watch is timed to beep at the time when the sun sets down. Dr. Robert Neville is a highly professional individual, who dedicated his entire time throughout the 3 years of world-wide plague to cure the Krippin Virus. 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