The Hollow One

What meenak-078732. The only good thing was that I got some sleep.

I have given 3 stars for the cinematography, I think I would have enjoyed sixty minutes of the beautifully filmed forest and sky. The film is one of many I have watched were there is a promising idea but they do not know what to do with it. Unfortunately the film is clunky and pretty nonsensical, the producer, director have no idea were it is going and fall back on the leave it to the viewers imagination. The reveal is done far to early to build up suspense, it looks like a bloke in a deep sea diving suit, there are big holes in the plot, for example your wife has worn what looks like a horse shoe around her neck for twenty years and you never ask, what the hell is that. I might be doing the lead lady a disservice but she looks well in her 20's and I take it she is portraying a teenager at the start. The dialogue is non existent no one actually says anything apart from the bloke saying at least 12 times "We have to get out of here" if you have to watch it, watch for the first 3 minutes then throw some paint against a wall and watch it for the next hour.

I fell asleep half way through watching it and wished I had slept through the rest. I will never get that hour and a half of my life back. It was was just awful.

Saw this recently and absolutely loved this movie!

The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, creating a strong sense of place. The script is tight and there are some great performances from a strong cast of actors. The lead performance from the elder of the sisters is really compelling.

Overall the story is an intriguing mixture of influences - both traditional genre horror combined with more complex psychological elements. I don't want to post any spoilers but the story centres around a fractured family with a trauma in their past. This resurfaces with terrible consequences later in their lives.

Amazing quality and values for a supposedly 'low budget' production... The locations and special effects - and especially the cinematography - are like something only a major studio could afford.

An outstanding debut!

Would love to see it get a UK release so I can see it again.

Some nice ideas are mostly squandered by repetition and an incomprehensible story. The characters are fine, the actors fine, but nothing can really rescue this messy production. It's a shame because some of the direction is imaginative and the fleetingly seen monster is enigmatic and effective (it reminds me of the depiction of the titular creature from 2005's 'Reeker'). When it dawns on you - as it did to me - about halfway through that things aren't going to progress much further, then the rest of the film becomes a little flat, I'm sorry to say.

A mixed bag, with more that is bad than good. The dialogue through the last half hour seems to comprise almost solely of cries of 'Rachel.' And lots of screaming, of course. My score is 5 out of 10.