The Hole in the Ground

Name: The Hole in the Ground
Genre: Horror
Released: March 1, 2019
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Bennett Andrew, David Crowley, Eoin Macken, James Cosmo, James Quinn Markey

2019

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A24 | Release Date: March 1, 2019 | R

Starring: Bennett Andrew, David Crowley, Eoin Macken, James Cosmo, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, Sarah Hanly, Seána Kerslake, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall

Summary: Sarah and her young son Chris move to a new home in the Irish countryside, next to a forest that hides an enormous sinkhole. One night, Chris vanishes, and when he reappears he seems unharmed and unchanged. But, as his behavior grows increasingly disturbing, Sarah begins to fear that the boy who has returned may not be her son at all.

Director: Lee Cronin

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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The Guardian Mike McCahill

Feb 28, 2019

It always finds new, invariably cinematic ways to nudge us towards its final leap into the abyss. Cronin feels like a real find for our especially insecure moment. Read full review

Demetrios Matheou

Feb 2, 2019

There’s a freshness to the characterisations, a good eye, and for a time Cronin constructs a tense guessing game as to whether it’s mental breakdown or supernatural forces at play. Read full review

Norman Gidney

Feb 2, 2019

The Hole In the Ground surprised me, took me on a fun ride, and returned me, almost unshaken. This was a brilliantly satisfying monster movie. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Feb 26, 2019

Parental anxiety has long been fertile ground for horror, going back to "The Bad Seed" and "The Exorcist," and The Hole In The Ground finds a somewhat fresh angle on the possessed-kid subgenre. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

Feb 28, 2019

Somewhere in the specifics of Cronin’s is-he-or-isn’t-he scenario – played with gripping detail by Kerslake and Markey – there’s a decent little midnight chiller. Read full review

Kim Newman

Feb 26, 2019

A soft-spoken yet chilling domestic horror film that tells its slightly overfamiliar tale effectively, with strong performances, quietly disturbing atmosphere, one or two friendly clichés, and good, old- fashioned scares. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Jan 29, 2019

This is a story that errs toward the familiar instead of embracing strangeness, its freaky kid becoming the distraction when you just want more time with the hole in the ground. Read full review

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Rcavey92212

Mar 24, 2020

Soooooooo creepy. The movie features on a single young mother who gets a desolate new house in Ireland with her young son. One day while jogging in the woods she discovers a giant hole in the ground and advises her son to not go out by himself. If course he does and when he comes back he'sSoooooooo creepy. The movie features on a single young mother who gets a desolate new house in Ireland with her young son. One day while jogging in the woods she discovers a giant hole in the ground and advises her son to not go out by himself. If course he does and when he comes back he's not the same. It's little things at first, slight mb mannerisms and the way he reacts to spiders and other kids he used to hate. But as things get increasingly strange she decides to confront him with truly terrifying consequences. The movie is a slow burn to be sure but it's very well done and undoubtedly suspenseful. It all leads up to a nightmarish finale that's worth the wait. Fine performances and confident direction highlight this great piece of genre.

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