The Hole (2009)
Genre: Adventure / Thriller
Duration: 92 minuten
Alternative title: The Hole in 3D
Country:
United States
Directed by: Joe Dante
Stars: Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett and Nathan Gamble
IMDb score:
5,7 (25.205)
Releasedate: 9 September 2009
The Hole plot
"What Are You So Afraid Of?"
A single mother moves with her two teenage sons from the big city to a small town. In the basement of their house, the two brothers find a hatch with a dark and seemingly bottomless cavern behind it. Opening the hatch causes major problems for the boys and their girl next door.
Actors and actresses
Dane Thompson
Lucas Thompson
Julie Campbell
Susan Thompson
Creepy Carl
Annie Smith
Monster Dad
Normal Dad
Travis
Young Cop
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12890 votes
A real Dante.
At least, the first 75 minutes anyway. The suburbia feeling is back, it's not all that scary, but that is (partly) absorbed by a successful adventurous feeling. It is indeed what a child horror, but you know that when you sit in front of a Dante.
Only the last fifteen minutes is really a mishap. In any case, it would have been better if the mystery had just been kept alive, but Dante also goes for a full CG with terribly ugly effects and an exaggerated in your face explanation as a result. It feels like he really wanted to unpack, but that really failed completely.
Too bad, because the rest is quite nice. Thought the toilet scene was a success, the jester was a little less scary, but you shouldn't expect real horror anyway. Rather blanket-mysterious with a few children who fill in the most important roles and a strange grandfather who makes it all just that little bit more mysterious.
A big half * deduction for the end, that's really too painful.
2.0*
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jippie2010
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- 2614 messages
- 8136 votes
What a lovely, disney horror.
Although I have to say that there were really a few moments when I also felt the tension.
The story is basically not really original, but the final scene was quite out of the box.
Not enough to save the movie. *2.5
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Friendly.
Joe Dante has done quite a few things as a director as long as they were within the imaginative, supernatural genre. The Hole is no different in that respect, but for a director with such status as Dante, it feels quite thin. Think it was more of a snack for him.
That is not really different for the viewer, this has become a real snack. It does not have much substantive added value and the objective does not seem to be much more than entertainment. This film does that, and as a youthful horror film it knows how to work well. It entertains and easily looks away thanks to the smooth tone that Dante gives to his film.
Furthermore, it is only uninspired that this is mainly due to the lack of variation. There must be great things to do with that hole that monsters crawl out of, but it's very limited here. Few threats and those that do come into the picture are disappointing. They are there for a purpose, but movies like this can do a lot better with these kinds of concepts.
Visually nicely decorated. Solid use of color and decoration of the scenes. I had hoped for a slightly smoother directing sauce, because the camera work and editing do not always go well with the film. It seems to me that if you focus the film on teenagers, it is obviously a bit more energetic and faster directed, but unfortunately Dante lags behind quite a bit.
I also hoped it would have been a little more exciting, but otherwise it's pretty fun. Doesn't last too long and the finale looks good enough to pull a pass out of me. The Hole has its advantage mainly in the fact that it all looks good, but I do get the idea that Dante wasn't always in the mood for it.
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