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  • 2021
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) discovers an unfinished bunker—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga) and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them cap...

Directed By: Pascual Sisto

Written By: Nicolás Giacobone

  • 2021
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 43 m

John and the Hole

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell) discovers an unfinished bunker—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents (Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle) and older sister (Taissa Farmiga) and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them cap...

Directed By: Pascual Sisto

Written By: Nicolás Giacobone

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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41% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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41% Mixed
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88
Aug 6, 2021
It’s exciting, quietly volatile stuff that digs refreshingly deep into the fears of the coming-of-age genre.
By Tomris Laffly FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 2, 2021
Sisto picks up the spell that is cast by Lowery’s tale, verdant with danger, and continues to weave.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW

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70
Feb 2, 2021
It’s an interesting idea on page, but in John and the Hole, it is all a little too opaque to make sense of Sisto’s muted portrait of adolescence.
By Hoai-Tran Bui FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 14, 2021
Director Pascual Sisto has achieved something a little more clever than pure imitation. He takes his audience’s expectations, that his film can only lead to bloodshed and despair, and leaves them hanging in the air for as long as he likes – it’s both tantalising and deliberately unsatisfying. You’re never given the comfort of knowing what comes next.
By Clarisse Loughrey FULL REVIEW
58
Feb 2, 2021
John and the Hole is more of a collection of memorably uncomfortable scenes as opposed to a cohesive (w)hole.
By Joe Lipsett FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 5, 2021
Sisto's direction is a victory of glacial tone over actual content, and John and the Hole's frustrations outweigh its insight into the forces that can spawn a monster.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW
35
Aug 4, 2021
A completely detached exercise in bewilderment that’s enigmatic nature comes off less Lynchian and more “unfinished scriptian,” director Pascual Sisto’s feature debut aims for intrigue but settles comfortably in mediocrity.
By Brianna Zigler FULL REVIEW
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Production Company 3311 Productions, Mutressa Movies
Release Date Aug 6, 2021
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.3311productions.com/projects/john-and-the-hole/
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Awards

Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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