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*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by an anonymous source. Director writer: Nathan Hendrickson. Cast: Kate Alden, Jesse James, Chelsea Farthing, Tony Doupe and Tonya Skoog. The Hollow One is a horror film from Nathan Hendrickson. Hendrickson has come from a video game development background and The Hollow One is this director's first film. This indie title is currently on the film festival circuit, with a recent appearance at the Seattle International Film Festival. In the film, a family struggles to overcome a being, made of nothingness. But, love does not always conquer the void, in horror. As the film's theme struggles to take hold, a creepy atmosphere develops in an old barn and farmhouse. Mostly shot at night, the film's tone is consistent. Unfortunately, many other film elements struggle to find affect. The Hollow One is a mostly enjoyable feature, which suffers from the introduction...

Indie supernatural horror film The Hollow One is one of those movies that seems to get everything right, and yet somehow it just doesn't add up to anything remarkable. Could it possibly be a case where the end product just doesn’t live up to the promise of its trailer? Perhaps this writer’s expectations were just too high for such a promising premise. In any event, as it pertains to The Hollow One, let’s just say that the sum of its parts is greater than the whole. More on this later, but first, what’s it all about?

Rachel (Kate Alden) and her younger sister Anna (Chelsea Farthing) seem to live an idyllic life in a small farming village with their parents, Michael (Tony Doupe) and Linda (Tonya Skoog), but things change one fateful night when Mic [Continued ...]...