The debut horror feature from Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin, The Hole in the Ground, trods familiar territory with style.
The Hole in the Ground, like 2014’s now-classic The Babadook, centers on the relationship between a single mother and her young son as they are beset by forces seemingly beyond their control. But while The Babadook kept the nature of the intrusion firmly ambiguous nearly all the way through, co-writer/director Lee Cronin’s feature debut starts off that way but soon takes a more conventional route. That renders The Hole in the Ground more generic in some ways, although Cronin still manages to pull off an atmospheric shocker for much of its running time.
As the film opens we see little Chris (James Quinn Markey) and his mom Sarah (Seana Kerslake) driving in their aging car through a vast swath of Irish forest, the two of them are immediately made...
The Hole in the Ground, like 2014’s now-classic The Babadook, centers on the relationship between a single mother and her young son as they are beset by forces seemingly beyond their control. But while The Babadook kept the nature of the intrusion firmly ambiguous nearly all the way through, co-writer/director Lee Cronin’s feature debut starts off that way but soon takes a more conventional route. That renders The Hole in the Ground more generic in some ways, although Cronin still manages to pull off an atmospheric shocker for much of its running time.
As the film opens we see little Chris (James Quinn Markey) and his mom Sarah (Seana Kerslake) driving in their aging car through a vast swath of Irish forest, the two of them are immediately made...
- 2/27/2019
- Den of Geek
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