Stephen Cognetti is an American director and writer known for the Hell House LLC franchise of found footage films.
Cognetti was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and raised in Pennsylvania. He attended Temple University, where he studied film.
He released the first Hell House LLC film in 2015 with the intention of making a trilogy of movies, as he saw the initial three films as a single story split into three parts. Cognetti would later expand the original story with a fourth film that served as both a sequel and prequel, ', in 2023. In 2025, Cognetti released his first non-found footage film, 825 Forest Road. A fifth and final entry in the series, ', was released in 2025.