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The Hole in the Ground

2019

Lee Cronin

Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Kati Outinen, Simone Kirby ...

4.8

2,522

Horror. Thriller One night, Sarah’s young son disappears into the woods behind their rural home. When he returns, he looks the same, but his behavior grows increasingly disturbing. Soon, Sarah realizes that the boy who returned may not be her son at all…

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Cronin’s film is more of a straight-up spookhouse ride: jolting in the moment, but less likely to linger in the bones long after viewing. "	NEU
United States	Perri Nemiroff Collider	"[It] sustains its 90-minute runtime by creating two well developed, engaging characters, letting you live with them, and then all slowly slip into the darkness and paranoia together."	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"What 'The Hole in the Ground' has more consistently than scares is a good score (...) It feels like music is just being used to fill in its many gaps.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"Frustrating (...) [It] has memorable images (...) But the visuals serve an emotional world that feels false."	NEG
United States	Rafael Motamayor Bloody Disgusting	"After waiting for the real fun to start, it is disappointing that the film doesn’t savor in what makes it special. (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"An impressive feature debut (...) It’s always welcome to see a chiller that builds suspense from ideas and characters"	POS
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Cronin wisely lets Kerslake’s quivering, empathetic performance do the heavy lifting (...) The movie’s final third or so functions exclusively as metaphor, yet that metaphor becomes increasingly muddled"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"[It] tells its slightly overfamiliar tale effectively, with strong performances, quietly disturbing atmosphere, one or two friendly clichés, and good, old- fashioned scares (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill The Guardian	"The terrific Kerslake gives an anchoring performance (...) It always finds new, invariably cinematic ways to nudge us towards its final leap into the abyss (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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