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  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Big Air Studios
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Big Air Studios
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary Life couldn't possibly get worse, or so thought 14 year old Dane and his 10 year old brother Lucas, when their single mother Susan uproots them from New York City to the sleepy little town of Bensonville. For Dane the only exciting thing about their new town is the beautiful girl next door, Julie. With Susan spending more and more time a...

Directed By: Joe Dante

Written By: Mark L. Smith

  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Big Air Studios
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2012
  • PG-13
  • Big Air Studios
  • 1 h 32 m

The Hole

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Life couldn't possibly get worse, or so thought 14 year old Dane and his 10 year old brother Lucas, when their single mother Susan uproots them from New York City to the sleepy little town of Bensonville. For Dane the only exciting thing about their new town is the beautiful girl next door, Julie. With Susan spending more and more time a...

Directed By: Joe Dante

Written By: Mark L. Smith

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80
Sep 12, 2014
Hardly the most original film of the year, but one of the most purely pleasurable. The ideal horror intro for fledgling genre fans – scary fun that definitely fills a hole.
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80
Sep 12, 2014
Where The Hole really scores — and this is rare in modern horror — is in its lead characters.
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80
Sep 12, 2014
Director Joe (Gremlins) Dante delivers some terrific spine-tingling chills on the way towards a disappointingly overblown climax.
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60
Sep 12, 2014
Dante plays the early scenes perfectly, racking up the clammy dread without tipping over into outright nastiness. But somewhere along the way, the tension dissipates.
By Tom Huddleston FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 12, 2014
With playful touches of Spielberg, Shyamalan and even Hitchcock, veteran director Joe Dante has confected a neat little scary movie, not explicitly violent, but pretty scary nonetheless.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
42
Sep 12, 2014
Like earlier Dante classics The Gremlins and The Burbs, The Hole marries the fantastical, the horrific, and the mundane, but in this case, the fantastical isn’t that fantastic, the horrific isn’t scary, and the mundane is way too mundane. All the elements are here, they just don’t add up to a satisfying whole.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 12, 2014
Cool it may be, but scary (or even mildly shudder-inducing) it ain’t, even in 3-D.
By Derek Elley FULL REVIEW

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6.4
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53% Positive
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33% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Production Company Bold Films, BenderSpink, The Hole
Release Date Sep 28, 2012
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline What Are You So Afraid Of?
Website http://www.thehole-3d.nl/
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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