11th Hour Cleaning, Trapped in a Messy Haunted House

A mess!  When haunted houses are messy it can get really yucky. Of course, we're not talking about dust, Lego pieces on the floor, or potato chip crumbs between the seat cushions.  Nope...we're talking bits of brains, blood spatter, and ancient pagan artifacts.  As with most haunted houses, something really bad happened in this one.  Hence a couple of babes and a couple of hunks are dispatched to clean it.  Today we look at 2022's "11th Hour Cleaning," directed by Ty Leisher.  Warning...this is a grim one that emphasizes horror over witty humor.

Stephen (Dave Baez) made a mess.  Using his shotgun, a la Ronald DeFeo, he murders his wife and children in their beds...then kills himself...or so that is how it appears to the police.  Quite the mess.  After the crime scene investigation, a cleaning company is contracted...11th Hour Cleaning.  See, this firm cleans yucky crime scenes.  11th Hour Cleaning is owned and run by Dylan (Edward Finlay). His wife, Rachel (Anita Leaman Torres), is also on the team. They are so cute...but their marriage has a secret...the kind of secret haunted houses know about.  Rounding out our team is loser Marcus (Ed Morrone) who is Rachel's brother and just released felon. Lastly, the sultry Hannah (Chloe Brooks) joins them...she and Marcus used to be an item until he did something awful to her...you'll see.

Soon after the team arrives, they begin scrubbing blood off the walls.  Then it gets weird...no scary. Team members begin seeing ghosts of the dead children...and Stephen's smart phone is found.  Oh no...Marcus sees what happened during the fateful night on Stephen's phone.  Now other bad stuff happens.  Apparently an ancient Scandinavian artifact was brought into the house by Stephen and it unleashed Norse demons,  Never good. It possesses people in the house and drives them to madness with fright.  One by one, everyone on the team is affected.  Soon horrible secrets are revealed and then the demons get really mean.  Warning...what happens will shock and violate certain taboos.

Will the team suffer the same fate as Stephen and his family?  Exactly what did Marcus do to Hannah when they were an item that was so horrible?  What secret contaminates the marriage of Rachel and Dylan?  The plot is brutal and Mr. Leisher has created a true horror film not interested in humor or irrelevant plot lines.  For a shocker, see "11th Hour Cleaning."