The Hole (2009 film)

The Hole is an American horror film directed by Joe Dante from the year 2009.

Action

Dane and his little brother Lucas move with their mother Susan from New York in the small town of Bensenville, which is located in the Midwestern United States. They want to draw a line under the past, in which the family had to suffer a violent father sitting now in prison. The concerns Danes, he 'll be bored to death in the province, dissipate soon, when he meets the attractive neighbor's daughter Julie. Together with her ​​brothers explore a mysterious, deep hole, which is located under a wooden crate in the basement of their house.

To their horror they find that the hole escape supernatural powers. They realize that manifest their innermost fears and unprocessed memories out of the hole in order to terrorize them. In the case of small Lucas it is a diabolical laughing harlequin doll, Julie is haunted by the ghost of a childhood friend, who once could not help, as they plunged into an amusement park to death, and Dane is the brutal father, he was not equal. Finally, it succeed each in his own way to overcome his fears and defeat the demons of the past.

Reviews

"Although, The Hole ' requires very little without a drop of blood, some sequences fall just a little too scary for a very young audience. In long-established horror hare rather a pleasant nostalgic feeling is, however, set as goose bumps [ ... ] Joe Dante with, The Hole ' delivered a solid family horror film that maintains its successful implementation until the end, while but conspicuously little new has. "

Background

The film had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2009. In Germany the film was released on DVD on June 7, 2011.

It was filmed with an estimated budget of 12 million dollars in Kittanning (Pennsylvania), eg, at the Kittanning Citizens Brigde, and in Vancouver, Canada. The global revenues amounted to $ 10,362,785.

The book, Julie reads in bed, contains an analogy to the content of the film. It's La Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri and the credo on the book cover will clearly respect to the people who disappear into the hole:

" Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. "

" You who enter here, all were lost all hope. "

Film Music

  • Early Morning Blackout - Jr. Juggernaut
  • Nitro - Cool Catz
  • Flaws and All - Sarah Solovay
  • Shake ' n Shout - Pete Surdoval
  • Get Get Get
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