2019 · horror · folk-horror · motherhood
The Hole in the Ground
Directed by Lee Cronin1h 30m2019
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Our read: The Hole in the Ground (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · folk-horror · motherhood entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / folk-horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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