Documentary Focuses on Dallas 'Hell House'

NPR

Published August 17, 2002 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to George Ratliff about his new documentary, Hell House. It focuses on a haunted house that a large Pentecostal church outside of Dallas puts together every year to scare people into the arms of God.

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