The Hole in the Ground
2019 · 90 min · Horror
Fear the familiar.
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.
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Cast
Seána Kerslake
Sarah O'Neill
James Quinn Markey
Chris O'Neill
James Cosmo
Des Brady
Kati Outinen
Noreen Brady
Simone Kirby
Louise Caul
Steve Wall
Rob Caul
David Crowley
Teacher
Eoin Macken
Jay Caul
Sarah Hanly
Lil Jones
Andrew Bennett
Doctor
John Quinn
Detective
Miro Lopperi
"It"
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Rowan ThornResident
the woods get the boy before the mother ever does. that's the part nobody wants to sit with. good damp irish dark in this one. you can feel the ground pull. the sinkhole isn't a monster, it's a mouth, and the land has been eating long before sarah parked her car on it. the cracked old woman in the road kept telling her the truth and got called mad for it. the village is usually right. the spider-crawl across the kitchen floor stayed with me more than i'd like. the boy who isn't the boy, eating like he learned how yesterday. yes, it's a changeling story you've heard. so is every harvest. the old ways don't need to be new to be owed. the soil takes what it's owed and hands back something that looks close enough. she burns it down at the end. i don't blame her. but you can't burn what's underground.
