The Hole

Starring: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Kiera Knightley, Laurence Fox and Embeth Davidtz

Director: Nick Hamm

Running Time: 102mins

Covered in blood and dirt, Liz (Birch) struggles to get to a phone after she has been missing for over two weeks. You see she is the only survivor of four missing pupils who disappeared from a school field trip. Where had they been, what had they been doing and why had only one of them returned from what Liz describes as The Hole.

Another teen horror, which has a twist on the glut of American crap we've had since the end of the Scream trilogy, that it's British. What you get with this British version is a better sense of story, grittiness and tension that has been severely lacking form movies like Valentine, Urban Legend and I know… The problem is that it never really takes you to the heights of the Scream movies and Final Destination, after starting out with a lot of promise and ends up meandering around the discernibly average level. Where is shows it true colours is via its great photography and sets, with the Hole itself giving off an air of dankness and eeriness all of it's own.

While Thora Birch becomes another American who can do a really good British accent, the cast never really pull you in to caring about them and with their little rich kid personas pushed into your face, any feelings will get looked away in the hole they are trapped in.

 

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