The Hole in the Ground

bruh... what is dis gigantic waste of time movie

I enjoyed this one. Had a nice creeping and eerie feeling to it with the all mysterious enormous hole.

An accomplished film that tends slightly towards cliche at times. It raises a lot of interesting, albeit not exactly novel, themes. It's at its best when it's at its most ambiguous. The conceit of the hole in the ground frankly feels like an unnecessary distraction and although the very last scene is well done, the descent into the hole prompts an unwelcome shift in tone and breaks what I think is a key rule of films like this: it's better (and scarier) to show less.

hot take but this was better than THE BABADOOK. weirder and scrappier, with a less passive, more hot-blooded heroine. plus the climactic monsters are gnarlier. not really anything you haven't seen before, though.