Atheists Watch "Hell House"

Hugo and Jake are back to celebrate Halloween the only way they know how, watching a movie about fundamentalists.
Check out our AMA on the 24th- / drunkenpeasants
Get your shirts here- teespring.com/s...
Donate- www.patreon.com/tbr
Hugo's Twitter- @HugoReloaded
Jake's Twitter- @BibleReloaded
TBR Logo Created By- Chris Cheape aka CheapeOne
Front End/Back End Logos and Buttons Created by- Iskander Aminov aka @Izzy_IRA
Theme Song- "Hugo and Jake"
Written, performed, and sung by- Dorian Silk
Download the Theme Song Here- / hugoandjake
Lyrics- www.evernote.c...
Dorian's Twitter- @DorianSilk

[@mercury7d]

Playing a rape victim as your rapist watches. That is so fucked up I'd consider that its own twisted punishment in hell.

[@tommymeyer8281]

Lesbian bar scene: AAAAAAh no no no that's too much Columbine reenactment: LOVE it. Make it an annual thing

[@jerrycan1756]

Girls are scary, man. I don't blame them.

[@N33D40RSL33P]

I have a penis but am gay... Does that mean guys also gobble penis?

[@speedygonzalez885]

apparently in the sin brawl homosexuality beats murder? wtf

[@sadgiraffe6669]

Tommy Meyer ii

[@sadgiraffe6669]

Nick Johnson i

[@BassbaitGG]

"not everything that's fun is of the devil" - in Christianity? Everything that's fun IS of the devil.

[@mimsjr1994]

XD so true

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

That's Puritainism.

[@Person01234]

+BassbaitGG No guys because worshipping jesus is the most fun you can have!

[@regiman222]

+BassbaitGG Fun IS the Devil (you had an extra words there, I got rid of it)

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

+Person Oisels So worshipping jesus is "the devil"? XD

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

Gentlemen, I wanted to add something about the botched abortion scene since you guys were wondering about the blood loss depicted. Also, thank you for this excellent review of Hell House - I had never heard of these (I grew up in and went to college in California) until a friend of mine moved to a southern state for a job, and he told me that evangelicals were everywhere and constantly referred to Halloween as “Satan’s holiday.” Sigh...he hated it. Anyway my wife suffered a miscarriage (she was about 10 weeks pregnant) some years ago. It was a terrible thing to witness, and my heart broke at my total inability to help her beyond getting her to the hospital ASAP. She lost an ENORMOUS amount of blood. In fact they were preparing her for a transfusion when they rushed her into surgery. What they showed with the girl there (and I get that the situations are different) was just the beginning. I won’t get too graphic but I will never forget it. Of course it also cemented my beliefs in the necessity of good, available healthcare for women. No back alley abortions or “at home miscarriages” again. Ever.

[@Teth47]

THE WORLD IS WORSE NOW THAN IT'S EVER BEEN!!! *Gets in his car and drives to the store, where there is tons of cheap, safe food to buy, then goes home to his house that is by all measurable standards safer than it's ever been in the history of the world, fills a glass with free, clean, practically unlimited drinking water, stubs his toe on the couch, goes to a hospital and gets a wound that could have been fatal in the past treated in about a half hour, then goes back home and slips into his soft, comfortable bed with the thermostat set at just the right temperature for optimal sleep* Yup. Complete shithole we live in nowadays.

[@Teth47]

***** We got way closer to that in the cold war. Nobody wants nukes to happen.

[@lattal3944]

+Teth47 You FOOL!! You just don't get it! Impressionable, young, teens all over the world are going to clubs at night and DANCING! Satan has creeped into our lives and there will be less and less good christians in heaven as time goes on! Oh the humanity!!

[@deepsea5348]

+Teth47 Physically, it's good. Emotionally, it's bad.

[@Teth47]

Deep sea girl I can agree with that, now we must ask: Why?

[@deepsea5348]

Teth47 Well, it could be how no one can seem to agree on anything anymore... Accept for right now, apparently. Or maybe our society's so determined to gain consumers that we're teaching everyone to be unsatisfied with their lives, and we tell them that what we have can make their lives better (which, most of the time, is a lie). It could just be that we've gained a bad habit of lying and letting ourselves be misguided.

[@DrShaym]

It's possible they knew that's not what a pentagram looks like, but they were afraid to draw a real one so they used a Star of David instead, and if you pointed it out to them, they'd probably justify it by saying something about all non-Christian religions being equivalent to devil-worship.

[@ronaldharris6569]

I think their occult expert was just fuckin with them,that's what the white colored thing sounds like if that's what happened I say good for you occult consultant

[@GoddoDoggo]

Wow. I find it so weird that a school would make one of its policies "Don't ask stupid questions." When I was growing up, the motto of every school I went to was "There are no stupid questions!" and they encouraged curiosity (almost to a fault. A lot of lessons would be interrupted with the teacher going into deep conversations and explanations that took up the whole class period just to answer one question).

[@thoughtaddict2739]

That's because school is more about indoctrination then it is about knowledge Here's a link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaq6d6OpdtOJq6s

[@Jw-un8oh]

@@thoughtaddict2739 Dude as someone who was almost home schooled, no you are wrong. Maybe some higher education, private schools, and religious schools. But you learned to read and write in school most likely. You learned English literature and History in school. I would have learned that from brain dead religious nutcases who think the world is a couple thousand years old and that evolution is a lie. School may indoctrinate you a bit, but it is the best we got. So deal with it.

[@crimsondynamo615]

“Don’t ask stupid questions” translates to “don’t ask questions that will make everyone question what is being taught.”

[@Droemar]

I have to say, a big reason I keep coming back to watch you guys's videos is your compassion. I think it's certainly easy to shit all over a demographic you don't agree with, and mock them with venom and jokes. But I feel like you guys make your arguments very well without having to tear down the humanity and individuality of the people who hold those disagreeable views. They might be stupid and fearful and so on, but you acknowledge that they are flawed and vulnerably human.

[@TheBibleReloaded]

I appreciate that you value that :) Too many of "us" are cunts when we shouldn't be.

[@stupidhat1779]

I like that myself :-)

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

What they do is arguably on par with "pray the gay away". It's "pray the depression away, without addressing the problem".

[@rudy3642]

And that kind of thing's probably worse cause it can hurt you or someone else.

[@TheIndependentLens]

Well doping yourself up on psych meds isn't addressing the problem either & worse because they have no idea how you're brain is going to react taking that shit.

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

MountcastleHorror Saying that they have no idea is untrue. They have a general idea based on brain chemistry, and some medicines are easier to predict. Plus, medication isn't really meant to be used alone. It is supposed to be used in conjunction with other therapies. The meds fight the symptoms, the therapy fights the problem. What they do in the movie is far worse. They do neither, and then act like its cured.

[@TheIndependentLens]

davis smith It's pretty darn close to having no idea. They don't even have a test that they run for your supposed "chemical imbalance." If you look at the percentages of psychotropic drugs prescribed in the U.S. vs. the rest of the world, the fact that it is a mindless industry of profit is clearly seen. Your problem is that you want to believe this science and it is really more pseudo-science for profit. I'm not saying they cannot be beneficial to a small percentage of people, but the mass prescribing of those drugs is completely ridiculous and dangerous.

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

MountcastleHorror I do agree with you, but what you are saying is not the fault of the scientists. Also, saying they have NO idea is still untrue, and has nothing to do with drug prescription rates. The problem here is that predicting the entire possible range of side-effects across AN ENTIRE POPULATION is nearly impossible. We can identify a drugs active effects, but how it reacts with other brain chemicals can be much harder to workout. If this is confusing, I apologize. It is hard to explain this through the internet.

[@mcalsip]

That was definitely a blank that he fired. It was still a dumb thing to do. Blanks are dangerous, especially out of a firearm not equipped with a muzzle deflector. Blanks also should not be fired indoors. As for the blanks that the kids were using, they have to have been modified by the gun guy to be very under power. A full power blank would have killed a person holding it to their head 90% of the time. In the military we have muzzle deflectors when we shoot blanks and we still don't shoot at anyone if they are closer than 20ft. Blanks are serious enough business that they would have already has serious injuries if they hadn't done something more off camera.

[@farmerboy916]

I can't imagine the hearing damage, either.

[@salvatorejack7844]

deflectors are only to re-cock the rifle. They are not for safety. You never fire a blank at anyone. (execpet military with deflectors and a reduced blank charge). If you were to do so on set in a movie you will get finined ant usually fired for it.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

+Xzerkces Yeah, that's what happened to Jon Eric Hexem in the 80's. He took a gun with a blank in it, held it to his head and fired.

[@Flevir]

I think it's just a dumb idea in general to be setting off explosions near yourself like that. Don't put something that explodes near your head. Can we just make that a general rule?

[@TlalocW]

When I lived in Tulsa, I went to GUTS Church's (actual name) Hell House one year as they go all out on it. The 4 things I remember most from it 1. The end room had an illusion of a man in a 3-piece-suit turning into the Devil. I have an interest in magic, and I exclaimed, "Oh, my God! You're doing the Girl-to-Gorilla trick! Can I see your setup?" I got shushed. 2. When you leave the Hell House, you go outside and are under a big tent where members of the church are waiting to preach to you. I had a young hipster come up to me, and before he said anything, I said, "Can you honestly look me in the eye and tell me that the loving, peaceful version of Jesus you want me to believe in would condone scare tactics like this?" He cast his eyes down and said no. 3. One young teenage girl got really freaked out about it so several church members surrounded her to preach to her. I saw two of them shoot each other a look that said, "We got one." 4. The hot dogs at their concession stand were surprisingly good. Like really, really, good.

[@TheBonkleFox]

if their hellhouse didn't have a guy with a costume that had a tear in it showing his ass i'm disappointed.

[@kayhaven4710]

I have only gone to one hell house in my life, and I wished I had gone to more. The very first room Jesus was chained to a post, with a executioner “whipping” him. We were all lined up against the wall as the executioner got in our faves asking “which one of us wanted to whip Jesus?”. After an awkward pause, I assumed we were supposed to answer so I responded “Is that a rhetorical question or...?”. As my friends laughed we were quickly escorted out of the room. I was still religious at the time, and I wonder how it would be now that I’m more agnostic.

[@TlalocW]

@@kayhaven4710 Oh, man, if it had been me there I would have started a cheerleader chant, "Do it again, haaar-der, harder!"

[@mountainhun]

I had a manager when I worked at Tulsa who had Guts Church merchandise. He was... Reasonably okay on a face to face basis, but he wasn't there often, and turned a blind eye towards the other manager and the kitchen staff harassing the female front-of-house staff.

[@indiglo1971]

Those Christians should not be eating those hot dogs if they had pork.

[@DarienSeminoff]

As a gun person the lack of gun safety really pisses me off... Actually it down right disgusts me. If or when the government takes our firearms I will blame these people.

[@foobar201]

+Darien Seminoff some of them use their guns to shoot at doctors, at abortion clinics. Although I heard they switched to firebombing these days.

[@DarienSeminoff]

foobar201 Hehe..

[@baconater4000]

+Darien Seminoff why we can't have nice things

[@CyberChrist]

+Darien Seminoff some "instructors" get poetic justice, though. But that's why most of the civilised world ensures you know how to handle something dangerous before trusting you with it ;)

[@angrypotato6637]

I don't even own a gun, and I still know not to fire a blank at bare skin... These people are fucking nutcases!

[@terryendicott2939]

The prompt call to 911 shows that he had his priorities correct. If the guy just prayed, I would want him in jail. But as is, I too have empathy for his situation and again consider my self lucky. I wish him (and family) well. BRR - you guys did an outstanding job on this - thanks.

[@emmaduncan2991]

I really do hope that John has found some peace, and maybe a girlfriend, he deserves some happiness. poor guy.

[@notsoperfectlyme7276]

I live in FT. Worth, where we had a church shooting several years ago (Wedgwood Baptist church) More than one local church that put on 'hell houses' simulated a church (or other mass ) shooting scene. The shooting was Sept, so it was beyond insensitive The youth from my church was at the shooting*, and I know at least one of our kids went to a HH, got caught up in the scene and was traumatized. He still experiences mental distress to this day. So. I have a special loathing for these 'hell houses.'

[@Wouldyoujust_]

When it came to the dialogue about the kids, I just want to say you guys were amazing. So empathetic, yet honest, and SO what some of our atheist community needs to have going for them.

[@Wouldyoujust_]

I'm sorry. Make that "the kids with disabilities".. there were all kinds of kiddos in this flick.

[@daviddavis3939]

I legitimately love the man that had to deal with the kids. I disagree with him but he is obviously a great father and I have nothing but respect for him. I feel for him and if there is a god and he only ever did one good thing I would have wanted it to be helping that guy.

[@AuroraBoarder1]

I wonder if he's the man whose schoolteacher wife (Mary Kay Letourneau) left him for a 12 year old student.

[@hellhammer7444]

I dunno about a great dad. He tried to say he said something about god and thr seizure stopped. Seizures don't last that long, everytime I've come out of one it's been 1 minute tops.

[@kestaa]

I'm simultaneously amazed and baffled by the fact that these people built a temporary structure for this hell house year after year. The ones I went to growing up were inside the actual church during the week or so leading up to Halloween. The scenes/skits took place in Sunday school classrooms, the nursery, the foyer, etc. All the existing furniture got moved into other rooms, and the doors we weren't supposed to go into were covered with white sheets. (The fluorescent ceiling lights were also covered with red, plastic tablecloths to make the lighting all spooky.) The last room was the sanctuary, where the youth pastor was waiting to help people convert or rededicate their lives or whatever. I thought that was a ton of work, since everything had to be put back in place overnight on Saturday to be ready for Sunday morning (sometimes twice, depending on what day of the week Halloween fell on), but this takes it to a whole 'nother level!

[@eddiev2263]

I just recently found this channel and have been vigorously binge watching these videos ever since. Absolutely love this channel.

[@TheBibleReloaded]

Happy to have you aboard the S.S. Mediocrity. Toot toot.

[@eddiev2263]

+TheBibleReloaded Honestly naming a boat that seems like you're just begging to go down at sea. Like the Titanic II. Happy to be aboard, anyway!

[@waynedamron8006]

haha yeah you're in for a treat. I binge watch these guys and the drunken peasants way to fucking much .

[@spanglelime]

+Dragon Vazquez I could have written this exact comment. Between these guys and Mr Repzion, I've been sucked in!

[@sampark17]

+spanglelime armoured skeptic is also very good, but the videos are much more concice

[@Criticcizm]

I have this "friend" on facebook that told me the bible says space travel is a sin....lol. Seriously. I wish I was joking.

[@RazeHaze10]

+WiffyLight What. The. Fuck.

[@Criticcizm]

Dragon's breath lol, my exact thoughts.

[@pumpkinslice1811]

Uhhhh....what?

[@KevinThePilgrim]

Wait, what?!?? What!?!?

[@chriscollins2095]

+WiffyLight Did your "friend" point out where in the Bible it says or implies space travel is a sin? I'm interested.

[@LACwriter]

If I had to be in this: "So, who do you want to play, Amy?" "IMMA BE THE MOTHERFUCKING DEMON!" "Amy, please stop coming to these."

[@Armor_Wing]

Throughout this whole video, the only thing I could think was "you know you've hit rock-bottom when you resort to using actual tragedies to scare people into believing your faith. How very 'good' of you to use innocent people's deaths to your advantage."Other than that, really great commentary and analysis. You guys are so enjoyable, as always.

[@doublel8852]

I'm agnostic, but my Pentecostal friend wanted me to go to a church thing with her. I agreed without really asking what it was (cause I didn't really care) and it ended up being a hell house. It was... Interesting. Another girl who went to that church was on the fence about religion after they showed us hell she started crying. They then took us to "heaven" and gave everyone a chance to get saved. That girl ended up getting "saved". I felt kinda bad cause she told me after that she didn't really want to get "saved" but she felt like she had to. She said she was more scared into doing it because of the slim chance that hell might actually exist.

[@MicroBlogganism]

27:15 Rohypnol is an actual medical drug used to treat things like insomnia, anxiety, and spasms, just saying.

[@TheBibleReloaded]

Lol right, but it wasn't created for date rape, which is the point.

[@MicroBlogganism]

Mikenna MacLachlan Never!! :P

[@MicroBlogganism]

TheBibleReloaded I got that, I just wanted make it clear that it is a legitimate pharmaceutical drug :)

[@theMrromeijn]

+MicroBlogganism *Whisper* I am stalking you...

[@xebek]

+MicroBlogganism But.. essentially every drug started off that way. Not sure what you're clarifying. Ofc it has legitimate pharmaceutical uses. Drug companies don't usually get useless or exclusively dangerous drugs past the FDA.

[@Redem10]

I though Jesus Camp/Kidnapped for Christ had more genuily scary element

[@voidcadet]

Torments that you can see are much scarier than torments that only exist as threats in an ancient book.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

+Redem10 Yeah. This is more the benign side of religious idiocy... Really lame horror attractions run by pompous teenagers. Ugh.

[@KevinThePilgrim]

+Brandon Roberts I think someone else has said it. But you appear in a lot of the videos I watch. Hello, XD

[@UltimateOmegaRed]

Redem10 Um... yeah.

[@robfaget3187]

Atheists are whiney little fuckers. It's a decent movie.

[@SpadaccinoLuciano]

Actually the girl who was date raped did, according to the Bible, commit a sin. It says in the Bible that if a woman is raped, but she doesn't cry out for people to help her, she is to be put to death. Sort of hard to cry out when you're drugged, so. Yeah, according to the Bible, that was a sin. Shit like that is why I'm not a Christian anymore.

[@KevinThePilgrim]

What the hell? Where in the bible can I find all that stuff?

[@SpadaccinoLuciano]

Kevin H. Pilgrim The verse I'm talking about in particular is Deuteronomy 22:23-24. Later the same passage goes on to say if she DID scream, she has to marry her rapist (Deuteronomy 22:28-29).

[@KevinThePilgrim]

SpadaccinoLuciano Thanks, I have to read all that fucked up suff.

[@xevious1538]

slight correction, if she did scream for help, then she wouldn't be punished. But that is only for a virgin who was scheduled to be married. If a man rapes a virgin who is not scheduled to be married, then the man has to pay 50 shekels to the father and must never divorce the woman he raped. here is the full verses 23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death-the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you. 25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her. 28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

[@MysticDragonPrincess]

Holy shit that's messed up

[@wolfjackle]

So I know it's like 3 years later, but just wanted to comment. There really aren't any complications that are associated with a one-time dose of plan B. It's safe for practically any age. There may be issues if someone uses it regularly (a few times a month), but that's so rare because very few people consider plan b to be their preferred birth control. The cost alone would be prohibitive after a few doses ($40 generic, $50 brand). Now, spotting (think mini-period that may last a week or two) is common. But bleeding out like what is shown here means something else happened and it wasn't due to the emergency contraceptive. It doesn't even pose a risk of prolonged infertility since fertility returns to that person's normal practically right away. And, if accidentally taken after pregnancy develops (as early as egg fertilization), there is no association with any risks to either mother or fetus. Source: Pharmacist Sorry for the long post!

[@JeffLandryComedy]

There is a really disturbing motif of incest/molestation in some of the scenes of the actual haunted house (i.e. Steve talking about his uncle turning him gay and Jessica from the rave/date rape scene having a backstory of being molested by her dad). I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the kids who confront the cop about their objections concerning the rave scene and the AIDS scene. I think they briefly touched on it with the mention of her rejecting god. I'm just surprised this seen wasn't further elaborated on. Also, the writers room scenes kind of remind me of the "Six Days to Air" documentary about South Park.

[@SkuldChan42]

People get killed with blanks all the time - I was honestly shocked by that.

[@boxbreaker2011]

All of this reminds me of my Christian days....I can personally tell you that YES, christians do this type of shit....they did plays like this in my church and looking back now, it really was fucked up. I just don't know why it took me so long to realize it.

[@chrisdietonight]

You kind of tune it out or get used to it after a while.

[@mike112769]

+boxbreaker2011 ...If you grew up in a church like this one, it makes sense that you didn't really notice anything odd about it. Sometimes it hard to see the forest when you are surrounded by trees. I'm happy for you getting out of that twisted shit. Peace.

[@cjcathead2468]

...because you didn't have enough knowledge to judge the situation fairly?

[@feathere.9177]

+boxbreaker2011 oh man I feel you! When I was 3 I had an opinion on homosexuality and abortion. I liked Winne the Pooh, but I wasn't allowed to own anything made by Disney because, my parents explained to me, Disney gives money to homosexuals. I used to read my bible to kids at recess. Now I live in a van and think for myself and have taught my bastard children, who my parents deny the existence of, to do the same.

[@pilferedpotatoes]

+boxbreaker2011 Yeah. That clip of the school specifically really brought me back. Everything we were taught was "for Christians", like Science from a Christian perspective, and stuff like that. Never had sex ed either. Ridiculous looking back on it now, but it really is hard to see how fucked up it all is while you're still so deeply involved.

[@mrs.benbarns1883]

that woman who saw her rapist in the crowd while she was playing a rape victim broke my heart :(

[@BillyJoe1305]

The gun thing is what happens when you assume police officers are firearms experts. It's like assuming someone who drives for Uber twice a month is an expert on automobiles.

[@elizabethwear4113]

I wonder if there was any investigation into that police officer after this documentary came out for his irresponsibility with the guns. What state does this take place in?

[@AnonEyeMouse]

Texas. Dallas I think.

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

+AnonEyeMouse This is in Dallas? Well, I gotta check out how cringy the hell house is this year!

[@jayl1980]

+1Kenny30 No kidding, I gotta find this thing

[@jayl1980]

+1Kenny30 Found it, it's in Cedar Hill

[@jayl1980]

1231 E Pleasant Run Rd, Cedar Hill, TX 75104 *****

[@SadisticSenpai61]

22:25 That's extremely common in these sorts of circles. My mother finally admitted Harry Potter isn't evil/satanic/etc... after watching the movies, but she still insists that Pokemon, DND, etc... are all evil/satanic/etc... BTW, her comment was "Oh, this isn't that bad." Not one admission that she was wrong to throw away my books and VHS tapes, nor a single apology. I literally had to spend 10 years smuggling movies and books that had "magic" in them into the house (I lived at home after I finished high school), because I knew what she'd "learned" from friends who'd never read the material was complete nonsense and there was no way I was going to deprive myself of one of my favorite genres because my mother had drunk the koolaid.

[@callmecalicoo]

iirc, white candles can be used during rituals as a stand in for other colors if they aren't available.

[@kitsunekyubino9345]

+Kiara Smith And they also have their own thing as well. They work as both white or as colour-neutral, is probably the best way to put it.

[@GunmetalRaven]

+Kiara Smith Depends upon how "fluff bunny" the person is. XD Some people absolutely must have the colors the "spell" calls for without realizing that the visualization / intent and one's personal color association is more important in people who believe in that sort of thing. Technically, if one believes in that sort of thing, one could use any color for anything, but due to there being some pretty standard archetypal associations - things like white get used as a neutral/purity/cleansing color whereas red ends up for love/anger/vengeance. You could totally use black for purification, it's just that many people who get into New Age religions are more focused on the appearance of it all rather than the actual "principles" involved. There are mountains of differences between Slavic magic and Gardenian Wicca. Granted - it's all hokum - but whatever it takes to get that placebo effect. XD

[@kitsunekyubino9345]

Um, Gardnerian Wicca. But there are older versions of Wicca as well, like Alexandrian Wicca. Wicca is also the root of the word witch.

[@GunmetalRaven]

Roberta Tallienne I was just providing examples of various forms of paganism. I'd say Gardenian Wicca in the 1960's with it's emphasis on Celtic traditions was probably the biggest "bump" in popularity in modern times( at least in the US ) to the resurgence in interest - which is why I noted it specifically. Would you prefer I have mentioned the Golden Dawn?

[@kitsunekyubino9345]

I was just expanding on what you said, really. And I'm pretty sure it's Gardnerian, hthe guy's name was Gardner, wasn't it? And wasn't it earlier than the 60's?

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

I wonder how many cases of anxiety disorders and PTSD has resulted from these Hell Houses? This is complete child abuse. Imagine if an autistic kid went through one of these with all of the horrific sensory overload.

[@pickles3128]

Has anyone ever actually been to one of these? I was about 12. My mom was a reporter for the newspaper, and she was doing a story about it, and I was allowed to go. It was mostly a drunk driving thing. At the end, you were allowed to choose which room you wanted to go to, heaven or hell. I chose heaven because I they were ministering everyone after they left the hell room. It was actually a pretty cool design with a lot of work put into decorations and costumes. They also, at Christmas, had an interactive walk through where you can travel to the nativity scene and pretend to be a follower of Jesus. My mom's job took me to some interesting places.

[@ramdino1249]

"Welcome to hell! Where prop design and infernal torment meet!"

[@brentcrowthers4243]

Me and my family went to one of these although it was a portable setup.

[@michaeledwards6683]

I've been to one before when I was like four. No joke, I was literally four!

[@MikePhalin]

When I was 8 our Episcopalian church had a Halloween party with a haunted house maze and all. No messages, no sin shaming, just letting kids enjoying Halloween.

[@Animericashow1]

I grew up in a Pentecostal church and I went to a Hell House with my parents when I was 11 or 12 because the pastor of our specific church recommended it. My parents were horrified and we never went to one ever again. They're a terrible tool for scaring people into faith, which, if you're going to proselytize, is the worst reason for anyone to believe in God. As for the woman who was a rape victim... That's a very troubling catch-22 for me. Yes, it is a terrible practice to have people act out their real-life trauma as what can clearly become some kind of enabling practice that can become a substitute for actual therapy... but in the specific case of that woman, it was clearly the right thing for her, because it brought her to the place where she eventually got help for herself. We can't assume that she would have gotten help sooner without that experience, and we definitely can't use her unique experience as a justification for the practice, so... What do we do with it?

[@MTguy1]

The story with "John" is pretty straight forward. Wife cheated, things started falling apart; to be vindictive wife makes abuse allegations; he gets removed from home. Wife has no proof (or interest) and takes off. The fact that he has custody from foster care as a single father proves he wasn't smacking his kids around

[@someonerandom8552]

I once went to a hell house with a friend for a laugh. My friend is a Christian by the way, just pretty liberal. We just laughed and thanked the people for a funny scare. They did not seem too happy.

[@awalkingcontradiction3017]

If I saw a Star of David in place of a pentagram I would just burst out laughing XP especially since I'm non affiliated.

[@hobosorcerer]

"they should do a 9/11 scene." Uhm... some of these Hell Houses actually DO 9/11 scenes. I'm just in awe.

[@michaellovely6601]

This doesn't surprise me because the wailings of persecution by Christians ramped up after 9/11.

[@whiterabbit75]

Wait, wait, wait. They're _against_ incest? I guess they never really thought too deeply about the entire book of Genesis, have they?

[@Ultracity6060]

It actually makes perfect sense that they'd be upset by things like Magic cards. These are people whose world view revolves around not being able to separate reality from fantasy. It's only natural they'd think their kids will do the same when it comes to a game.

[@charlespeterwatson9051]

This makes me want to create a "Heaven House" for Halloween. The themes are child sacrifice, misogyny, xenophobia, destruction of followers of other religions, and other horrors perpetrated by Christian ideology to scare people away from the faith,

[@michaellovely6601]

That would be interesting. What would really piss off evangelical Christians would be if you put your Heaven House on across the street from a Hell House.

[@TimeForDunston]

Imagine being so religiously uptight that you can't even let your kids have fun on Halloween.

[@UnintelligibleCourtneyM]

the seizure the kid was having was a grand mal. Grand mal szs don't look like how they do in tv shows and movies. (Source: was an EMT and happen to have epilepsy)

[@gabrielethier2046]

the fact that john is working on the hell house is pretty ironic, since it seems like he's already in his own personal hell

[@RavynSkye617]

There are grand mal seizures, as well as pedi mal seizures. That boy WAS actually having a grand mal seizure. A grand mal is any seizure where your whole body seizes up and shakes that way. Some are more violent than others, of course. Pedi mal seizures look like the person is just sort of staring off into space with a blank look on their face. I am epileptic and get both kinds of seizures. While the seizures look scary, they are not painful whatsoever (unless you injure yourself, like falling down stairs because you seized up) and in almost all cases, will not cause any permanent damage, and there really isn't any need to call 911 or go to the hospital. If the person has a cluster of seizures, or doesn't come out of the seizure after a long time (10 mins is a LONG seizure), or is still confused and disoriented 10-15 mins after the seizure has ended, those are the only times that you have to worry about going to the hospital.

[@TheRachaelLefler]

I've had a seizure once, idk if I'm epileptic or not. It was about 30 seconds of my sight going to flashing bright colors and temporary being unable to see, while my body kind of turned around and shook (luckily I was on my bed). I would have called it painless, even "fun" if it hadn't been so scary and unexpected. Interesting, to say the least. I was just wondering but how do you know if you have a petit mal seizure?

[@RavynSkye617]

Rachael Lefler - I usually am not aware of either kind of seizure. I know because other people tell me, or I figure it out if like... I'm watching TV and suddenly things seems to jump around weirdly. Honestly, I don't even know most of the time I have a seizure, petit mal or grand mal. (Also, just realized my talk to text kept saying 'pedi' instead of 'petit' in my previous comment. >_

[@Jemalacane0]

I have a hard time believing they are not painful.

[@RavynSkye617]

Jemalacane0 - They aren't. I've had them and they are not painful... in fact, you don't remember them at all. You are totally and completely unaware the whole time. Which I guess means that they COULD be painful but you have no memory of it later, so then, I guess it wouldn't matter if they were painful or not, since you will never remember the pain later anyway... Anyway, to me, someone who has had both petite mal and grand mal seizures, I can tell you that they are NOT painful to me, and in fact, I'm not aware of anything that happens during them.

[@TheAmericanNomad352]

+Ravyn Skye i have grandmal seizures and i pasted out when i come out kinda like feeling waking up feeling so much pain where i threw up and stuff like that and sick people really question god everything in the bible and the hell thing was all about like getting raped or some bs like that

[@masterjedi343]

A lot of the people watching those scenes in the Hell House looks really uncomfortable. Their facial expressions show so much. Also at 48:30 the sign behind the guy says Trinity Church of the Ass of God. I giggled.

[@yalesgrarreel2083]

As a rape survivor myself (and an atheist) it’s worth pointing out that rape is never really “condemned” in the Bible - it is, however, condoned in certain scenarios. So the whole “How do you know right from wrong without religion?” Guess what? If you’re a Christian, and you know rape is wrong? Congrats, you’re a decent person. Also, why ISN’T rape a big deal to these people?

[@tobler17]

Holy shit. I just remembered i was part of a Hell House when i still went to church back in high school. God damn i buried that memory down deep. So glad i got out of all that religious crap after high school.

[@scottfox2641]

You guys cut the best part of the movie where the Nu Metal kids call out the haunted house

[@alwaysthinkforyourself7028]

My husband became a Christian in a hell house 19 years ago. He's now an atheist.

[@ashleymcdaniel9734]

I grew up evangelical and my church did participate in hell house. I was even asked as a teenager to be an actor for the "rape room." I didn't do it, and now being on the outside I see how ridiculous the whole concept of this really was.

[@KaiserCrocer]

i guess yo can say this was one hell of a movie

[@codelanous6045]

Puns of damage

[@speedygonzalez885]

kill me

[@peasant7909]

Curdlemetle431 kms

[@brieeva4678]

kill me now

[@Flevir]

Hold on, you need a little... Just, lemme... *places sunglasses on your face and plays the CSI "YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" in the background* There we go.

[@smspain09]

Crap. This is hard to see...my kids have epilepsy. Seizures are really...horrifying. If nothing, in the long run, it's more deeply confirmed my atheism. But, the one time I've ...prayed...calling my own BS the whole time was to keep my daughter out of the hospital. It's rough as almost anything (for us, the kids are completely normal as long as their seizures are controlled. For this guy...I'm sure it's a helluva lot worse.) Whew. Thanks, though, guys. This content is helpful.

[@thekingofreyes3]

That "pentagram" gave me a good laugh.

[@RinitaChan]

At first I thought this was going to be a review of _Hellhouse LLC_ but then I remembered this is Hannah and Jake, so of course it’s not going to be about an actual horror movie by genre.

[@MortimerTheMortified]

How I hear the opening: It's the Bible reloaded Logicked explosion Like Jesus and Moses But its Hugo and Jake The Bible is changing And most other pagan So get educated With Hugo and Jake Pull out a yuan, stop what you're doing It's Bible Reloaded time And they cultivated This'll hate it I'm talking to taken But it's Hugo and Jake So on with the show then It's not getting coded It's the Bible Reloaded With Hugo and Jake With Hugo, and Jake

[@LDrosophila]

+MortimerTheMortified thats how i hear it

[@PatheticApathetic]

Wow, you even dropped a shitload of syllables

[@thesimulacra]

+MortimerTheMortified Creationist Cat's version is better. You don't even have Gary Coleman in there.

[@KevinThePilgrim]

+Matt W haven't read that version. Where can I read it?

[@thesimulacra]

+Kevin H. Pilgrim just search for creationist cat chick trac

[@zurn56]

You can still die from a blank put to your head at point blank range. Depends on the pressure, you do cover this as I type but still in military, reenactments and studios have rules and checks when using blanks.

[@ourhandsaretied]

Sometimes a shell casing is still in the gun too, so people have died from that being propelled like a bullet.

[@MysticDragonPrincess]

ourhandsaretied yeah didn't Brandon Lee die that way

[@lovechronograph]

By this point I'm actually singing the words to the intro. I love this channel.

[@pixelpanic]

I really like how you guys are not shitting on the guy with the 4 kids. It would've been easy to either gloss over his story or even disregard it because of his faith, but you guys gave him so much credit and that shows a lot of integrity on your part. I'm with you guys, for the most part (I'm an atheist-leaning agnostic). I appreciate you taking an honest look at this film.

[@TheBibleReloaded]

+Pixel Panic We do our best to try to be objective, or close to it :) Thanks for watching.

[@changlehart5671]

@@TheBibleReloaded cool

[@stevendoherty2130]

I play magic: the gathering all the time. It is definitely an occult thing. We sacrifice goats, pray to the devil, all the fun stuff. It's not like it's just pieces of cardboard that people like to play a game with.

[@Zombiepull]

1) ask questions 2) dont ask dumb questions in a real school there should be only " there are no dumb questions"

[@hellhammer7444]

Yeah I was really hoping for some definition on what stupid questions are.

[@calebjohnson3537]

For real though Bible Reloaded has the best intro in the world

[@GogiRegion]

At my school, they were planning on using blanks for school shooting drills. The idea made me shudder, but apparently they did preliminary drills with just the teachers on a work day. I assume that they would just shoot at the ceiling or something. They are considering doing it with students, and as much as I think it could help us with getting good at figuring out where the shooter is if there is a shooter (our school has had almost shootings [someone got caught day before telling people not to come to school that day a while ago, someone got caught writing plans and had guns, etc.], so our teachers really want us to be prepared if they don’t get caught beforehand). I honestly think it’s probably a good idea, but there needs to be a LOT of effort into safety.

[@Captain_Draco]

I think the saddest part about situations like the one with the father of 4 is that they have the strength to continue and persevere within them from the start, but attribute it to a fiction that belittles them by calling them sheep and teaching them that they are inherently broken from birth. It's what a hate about those 12 step programs that are essentially conversion programs targeting those who are already compromised, they have the strength within them, but when they succeed they give all the credit to an imaginary person instead of themselves.

[@kingdestroyah]

INTENSE CLAPPING

[@solidaritytime3650]

Clap with Bill Nye!

[@mojoforthewin3069]

+Tom Riddle *Clapping Intensifies*

[@phillipsavage9325]

+Tom Riddle Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer. What could he possibly know about clapping? Stop treating him like an authority on clapping.

[@MegaFarinato]

+Phillip Savage thats a falacy "ad ora et labora". You cant asume he doesnt have the capability of praying and in the proces realise that if he makes that same action with his hands over and over, he can achieve the clapping goal through the glorifying faith!

[@GregReavis]

18:30 Fuck, I really want to give that guy a hug.

[@Mrtotot]

Coming from a former bible thumper, I love how hell in scripture is described as "unimaginable" for a lack of the writers imagination.

[@MikePhalin]

16:30 I really do have sympathy for that guy in the context of having to take care of four children, some with special needs. Being a dad, it is sometimes hard just caring for one, I cannot image the hell he goes through daily. I remember watching the full doc a while ago and even then I don't think the filmmakers ever get the full story behind the dad's situation.

[@MisterCharlton]

Actually, the Jesus Camp nuts were also Pentecostal. They would've done this same stuff. Can't decide which is creepier though.

[@fartzinwind]

My Girlfriend encountered a physically abusive X at a haunted house. He was a part of the staff at one of the very large haunted houses of Portland Or. The guy was doing his normal routine with the people ahead of us, soon as he spotted her he just did a 180, was quite, and just left our area all together.

[@chrissyweaver3475]

I love the usage of the old television : )

[@lumeronswift]

32:05 I believe the quote you guys were looking for is from Matthew 5 verse 28 - "But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." That kinda rules out snogging. Maybe even eye-gazing. Holding hands... possibly not?

[@elizabethharper5526]

Hell houses are hilarious now, but when I was a young kid and I thought it was all real... damn, it was terrifying. Imagine watching a horror movie like Insidious and actually thinking it was 100% real and might happen to you to and will happen to a lot of your friends.

[@zemorph42]

I have cerebral palsy and secondary epilepsy, and once when I had a seizure in front of my church friends, one of them said that he thought it was a demon because it happened to stop when he prayed for me. I was a Christian then, but I still knew better; my condition was due to a severe brain injury. I don't think he believed me though. He thought that "Math Magic" by Scott Flansberg is about numerology.

[@skratzisbored]

"Don't worry people, it's not gonna be great, but it'll be OK."-Jake

[@SeedsnStems63]

Alec Baldwin must’ve learned his gun safety from hell house

[@corvus1374]

I wonder if they drew a Star of David because they were legit. afraid to draw a pentagram?

[@hellhammer7444]

I think it's because they don't know the difference. Even after "having an occultist come through for accuracy"

[@EvilGuacamoleGaming]

46:50 I'd say his faith gave him some amount of strength; real or constructed. His church, though, was what caged him. Many other churches would have assisted him in a meaningful way.

[@jessi_bear]

Rewatching this because its October and this shit is way scarier than anything else.

[@MrDigztheswagking]

Lol

[@109367]

I'm addicted to these videos xD The guy that died from the blank was actor Jon-Erik Hexum btw

[@darkling0998]

"no white things in cult rituals"? well shit, I've been doing it wrong all this time.

[@hellhammer7444]

Right? I should have been asking christians to fact check my altars and rituals. For accuracy of course.

[@blixer8384]

If you bear resentment, hated, etc. against any one, you give that person free rent inside your head.

[@natelandherr5202]

At least they're anti drunk driving

[@SlayerSlayn]

"Hell house for sale! Did u hear, hell house fo sale!" 'Hell house' by Dark Lotus / ICP

[@BrandEver117]

Jakes aren't real.

[@TheBibleReloaded]

+Brandon S YOU'RE NOT FUCKING REAL

[@whovian4479]

OH MY GOD!!!!!! XD

[@beecakes3062]

+The Bible Reloaded hey guys. i do believe you guys are preaching the word. The atheist word.

[@Pawg_Alf]

+Brandon S Jakes don't melt steel beams

[@RedTailShark100]

+Jeb Galicia But Hugos do.

[@OnyxVivian]

I don't think I could walk through that without calling fucked up or bullshit, or just flat out laughing.

[@RevJR]

You guys missed the absolute best part. 48:05 PASTOR HENNESY They're really all just quite drunk.

[@KIRA-EL]

There's a big part of me after watching the documentary that just thought, "holy shit life is going to hit a lot of those kids like a ton of bricks"

[@PinkieImpaled]

I've been to TONS of raves I've never seen a body pulled out. The drugs thing is accurate tho

[@crisptomato9495]

Man watching this is like revisiting an old friend. I’m honestly shocked how well this holds up 8 years later.

[@sad_doggo2504]

I lost it at the bit with the star of David.

[@hellhammer7444]

I like that they threw in "we had an occultist come through for accuracy" somehow didn't catch that the star of david isn't a pentagram? Yeah.....

[@redned4802]

I'm subscribing to you guys because i've underestimated you. I figured you guys would bash and spread hate about Christianity and religion, but after watching some of your reviews. You guys are not so bad. Keep up the good work

[@Jmetclaf7053]

40:55 in the one case of the Hell House being defendable, you have to remember it's a Demon saying that. Being the biggest douche possible is pretty much his entire job description.

[@LadyNightthorn]

As to how dangerous shooting a gun loaded with blanks can be, google Jon-Erik Hexum. In 1984, the model and up and coming actor got restless during a breaking in the filming of his TV series and started playing around with a .44 Magnum that was loaded with blanks. He spun the cartridge, put it to his head, and pulled the trigger, ala Russian Roulette. The bullet didn't enter his head, but it had enough force to break off a piece of his skull and shove it into his brain. After several hours of surgery the handsome (hell, the man was gorgeous!) 26 year old was declared brain dead. His heart, corneas, kidneys, and some of his skin was used to save others lives before he was cremated. All because he didn't understand how dangerous a "blank" could be.

[@Thegr8MC]

Magic: The Gathering is of the devil. Really? Hmmm. That must be why it was my church youth group who introduced me to the game.

[@Davesknd]

+The Great MC Our priest who also did youth-counseling was actually a really good player. Strangely enough, he didn't tough angel decks and always played goblin. Back when Goblin rush was valid.

[@mojoforthewin3069]

I think it would have been funny to just run a Red/Black demon/zombie deck.

[@Seththeprince]

My old church we played d&d

[@alchemicmercury]

My church burnt a NIV bible they found during the bible study and layed hands on me to excorsize the demons out of me for playing pokemon and liking dragons. Revelations was my fav book as a child for the monsters.