Saturday, December 21, 2024

Hell on the Shelf (2021)

A real estate agent is frustrated about one of her properties, the Wingate house.  She says people don't stay in the house for very long and it’s the most haunted house in the area. But then she mentions it was built around 1911 and there have been seven owners.   7 owners over 110 years doesn’t seem like a huge turn over. Maybe the problems just started?

She hires a Max, paranormal investigator, who hires Damon and Lennie to run camera and sound.  He tells them forty five years ago a single mother with mental health and substance abuse issues lived there with two boys.  One of the boys fell down the stairs and broke his neck.  Max believes that is the source of the hauntings and he hopes to help the spirit cross over.

Legend has it the antique elf doll is possessed by the spirit and anyone who touches it will die. The three investigators sure do touch this doll a lot so hopefully the legend isn’t true. The sounds of gigging are heard and the doll sits in a different place than they remember it. Oooo isn’t that scary, kids?

At one point they use a spirit box, the most annoying contraption ever, to try to communicate with the ghost. Overall not much happens and it’s like watching an even tamer ghost hunting show. There’s not much to it and there are no scares. The doll is a fairly friendly looking thing that you might find in department store

This is a Polonia production so it’s not like I didn’t know what I was getting. It’s super low budget and shot in the directors home. There’s not much to it.

The possessed elf doll 

They strap a GoPro to the elf and the footage looks like this


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