The Hole (DVD)

...forthcoming field trip. They enlist the aid of Martin – the school whiz kid and mastermind extraordinaire – who for an undisclosed sum promises to provide them with a getaway for the weekend. The students willingly pay the fee and arrange to meet in the woods nearby, where Martin has arranged to collect them. But they aren’t going far – their hideaway for the weekend is right beneath them – a disused war banker, complete ...
...they’ve found themselves the perfect get away – and at face value, it appears that they have – after all nobody will find them there. Except, of course, nothing is that simple. Simply mix an unhealthy adolescent obsession, fear of the unknown and a liberal dosage of cabin fever, and suddenly the party atmosphere turns to terror. Whatever you expect from this film, you may well be surprised – nothing is quite what it seems……. ...

LostWitness 05.11.2001 · Read full review
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...Unfortunately, she isn't one of the popular students, so she devises a plan with friend Martyn, to get Mike to herself. Martyn arranges for Liz, Mike, and trendy students, Geoff and Frankie, to spend three days in an underground bomb shelter. The four enjoy their time below ground, until it comes to the day they are supposed to be returning to school and it transpires that Martyn is not coming back to let them out. A few days later, Liz manages to ...
...who plays Frankie, is probably the best known actress in this film, it is Thora Birch as Liz who gives the best performance. I found it immediately easy to identify with her; she is not one of the most popular students in school and finds it hard to get noticed. However, she is determined that, somehow, Mike will note her existence, and is, perhaps naively, sure that she will manage to win him over. At the same time, I was always aware that there ...

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The Hole is a British horror / thriller from 2001, starring Thora Birch (American Beauty, Ghost World) and Keira Knightley before she got famous and started pouting. It tells the tale of four friends who decide to bunk off a field trip from their posh boarding school, and instead spend the weekend buried underground in a secret bunker. Why they would want to do that is anybody's guess; it must have been one particularly boring field trip. These ...
...goes badly wrong… Anyway, the film is told with flashbacks between this fateful weekend and the present, in which a police investigation is being carried out into the deaths of three of the four students. Only Liz survived the ordeal, and she is being interviewed by one of the psychologists/investigators (Embeth Davidtz - Miss Honey from Matilda). At first, the main suspect is another friend, Martyn (played by Daniel Brocklebank - now in Emmerdale), ...

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...been likened by some to the Blair Witch project. Do not be fooled by such reviews. This is the complete opposite – starting with the fact that this is actually VERY GOOD. The other main difference is that this is based on a believable tale (no belief in the supernatural required!). There is a very good plot with more twists and turns than the current Levi’s advert. And what’s more for the first time in a long time I could not predict ...
...providing some interesting insights into the human mind (ok, so a very messed up human mind but still human). It is pretty gruesome and graphically so, so it’s not one for the faint hearted. However I think it is wrong to dub it as a horror movie as it does not fit into many of the stereotypes this conjures up. It is far more horrific than actual horror. So what is it about? Well I can not tell you much about the plot without giving things ...

student9824 26.04.2001 (02.05.2001) · Read full review
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...Crazy. Anyway, back to the opinion. In brief, The Hole is about these four (somewhat stupid) English (but one American) teens who set up camp in this large underground hide-out. Martin, the mastermind who locked them in the bunker and made sure their parents and the school didn't find out about it and left them there. On the day he's supposed to let them out, he doesn't and they're locked in. They find things fun to start with - all that alcohol ...
...the water and electricity go off... Scary! The best thing (or at least my favourite thing) about this film is that you don't find out the whole (somewhat disturbing) truth until the very end and the whole thing is VERY chilling! The cast isn't huge but each and every cast member performs very well. Thora Birch who plays Liz is the most interesting character. It's her scheme (along with best friend Martin) that gets the others in The Hole. She has ...

annalouise 02.12.2001 · Read full review
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...you in to spectate as the chilling, dark story characterised by its never-ending suspense of unexpected twists and turns unfolds,and you are invited to watch as the four characters' personality traits unfold delivering some suprising and unappetising scenes, it is tainted with foreboding and a sense of pure evil unwrapping before your very eyes.. For me the film reminded me both of 'Shallow Grave' (the character portrayls, black humour and unexpected ...
...bunker, it is here that the nightmare begins and the laughter stops. Opening scene depicts Thora Birch (Liz)bloody and straggled she collapses inside the school hallway after calling the emergency line.We then listen to her account of the fouteen days she spent underground as told to her appointed police psychologist. The events within the bunker walls are not 'jump-out-of-your-skin frightening' but successfully chill and forebode with their frightening ...

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...good psychological Drama, it keeps the mind on edge and leaves you with a lot more to think about. Guy Burt’s Novel ‘After the Hole’ has been adapted into the latest of these entitled ‘The Hole’. The film takes an alternative setting to many of the American high school movies by instead using the backdrop of a British public school. The films sombre edge sums up its gritty reality and it’s definitely not a film ...
...The film starts with the appearance of Liz, played by Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus 1993), after being discovered missing with three companions for a fortnight. Having been locked into a old World War II bunker with them, Police Psychologist Phillipa, acted by Embeth Davidtz (Bridget Jones’s Diary 2001), tries in vain to extract the story from Liz behind their disappearance. Then follows two stories of the four student’s fourteen days underground. ...

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Although not the most inspiring title for a film, The Hole is far from dull. Released in cinemas on April 20th, this movie provides some welcomed relief from the hype surrounding the box office hit, Bridget Jones’s Diary. Based on the novel by Guy Burt, (‘After The Hole’), this film centres on four public school teenagers who take refuge from a field trip by hiding in an wartime bunker. Convinced that they have successfully escaped a dismal stay ...
...down into the hole, armed with all the ingredients for the perfect party. The situation is further intensified by the fact that Liz is crazy about Mike, whilst Frankie and Geoff cannot wait to have some time to themselves. Nick Hamm’s film cleverly merges fantasy with reality, with the result that it is difficult for the viewer to separate the truth from fiction. The representations of the characters can often be misleading, and it is the subtlety ...

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THE HOLE - STARRING THORA BIRCH, EMBETH DAVIDTZ, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY ET AL. WARNING - SPOILER AHEAD - YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THIS FILM WILL BE RUINED WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. GO STRAIGHT TO CRITIQUE IF YOU WANT TO JUST KNOW AN OPINION OF THIS MOVIE. SYNOPSIS : At a public school in the south of England Liz Dunn is obsessed with American pupil Mike Steel - several attempts at getting him to notice her fail so her best friend Martin offers ...
...an underground bunker deep in the woods - the thought being that somee time with him will ultimately make him love her. Martin agrees to seal the hole and come back in three days - initially the teens have fun, but this soon stops when they realise that Martin isn't coming back - they ealise that he is toying with them and come up with a plan to foil him - it works and they are let out - the end of the movie - it seems not. This version of events ...

DanClegg 06.05.2001 (08.05.2001) · Read full review
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One of the most thrilling Brit flicks of recent years this film is a disturbing and intense psychological thriller. The film is about the dark side of human nature manifested in the form of sociopath Liz (Thora Birch) who's desire to gain the affections of school heart throb, Mike (Desmond Harrington) are seriously beyond the average school girl crush. The film starts with Liz narrating the events which occurred after her and her three spoilt private ...
...bomb shelter. Telling her therapist the events Liz blames her friend Martin for keeping them locked down in the Hole long after there food and water had run out. However when the police finally talk to Martin in transpires that Liz may be being less than honest with them and that events after the closing of the Hole may have had more to do with Liz than she is letting on… Released in 2001 the film is dark and scary, it lacks the blood and guts of ...

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...movie - but not quite. The film is based on the book After the Hole by Guy Burt and is set (unusually these days) in England. The story follows Thora Birch (from American Beauty) who is the only survivor of some horrific accident/ordeal. Most of the story is told in flashback - but don't let that put you off. Birch explains to the psychologist she is now seeing what happened in The Hole. Basically, and this isn't giving anything away, four rich American ...
...who can blame them!!). With the help of the quiet kid at school they lock themselves in an old WW2 bunker for the party of a lifetime. Suffice to say that Thora Birch is the only one left alive to tell what happened - ie they were locked in by someone wanting to get back at them. The quiet kid denies this but has no proof. Who did lock them in? Who killed who?? Who is telling the truth??? Well ... ok, so I'm not gonna give the story away. Actually ...

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...about this film. I watched the trailer to this film and something just attracted me to it. I don’t know what it was. Well ok if I am honest I do - you see I used to suffer with panic attacks and I sometimes get claustrophobic when I am in small spaces. Even the thought of looking down a hole in the ground makes me get scared and anxious. I don’t know why I wanted to watch it - maybe I thought that I should face my fears - maybe I just ...
...it too the end without feeling that had to switch it off. I don’t like horror films or anything gory. I asked a friend who watched this film if it was any good. She must have been drunk when she watched it because she told me the story and the plot all wrong, bless her. I finally went to my video shop and rented this video. I didn’t know what to expect I took a chance. The question is was I disappointed? I’ll answer that a little ...

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...may I just say that the film "The Hole" is a lot better than what you it looks! I'd seen it advertised a few times and it had never really appealed to me - I went to see Bridget Jones's Diary, but of course, Sod's Law meant we missed the bus we needed to catch, then the next Bridget Jones's Showing wasn't for another 3 hours, and lets face it, Llandudno Junction doesn't provide much to do for 3 hourse! so we ended up seeing The Hole instead, and ...
...quick run down on what the story line is: ~ Cast ~ Thora Birch (who plays the leading role - Liz) Daniel Brocklebank - plays Martin Lawernce Fox - plays Geoff Keira Knightly - plays Frankie Desmond Harrington - plays Mike ~ Story line ~ The general story line is as follows: 4 teenagers, namely Liz, Frankie, Mike and Geoff attend a private school. There is a Geography Field trip to Wales for a few days - they really dont want to go - so Martin (Liz's ...

Sarah_Louise 06.08.2001 (04.10.2001) · Read full review
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The Hole was one of those films that I saw the previews to in the cinema sometime last year and decided I just had to watch the movie after desperately searching for something that may resemble in any way the Blair Witch Project (I loved that film!). It looked to me as if I might just have found a movie that did that in its own little way. Was I right? Well no, not really, however, it did the same types of things to your mind as Blair Witch Project ...
...what actually happened and the views on what happened could differ from person to person. Anyway, enough of my ramblings and onto the film! It all starts with a girl walking up a lane to her school, scared, bleeding and dirty she goes into her empty school hall, picks up the phone and dials the emergency services. She then just screams down the phone and what a spine chilling scream it is too, especially with the surround sound in the cinema, and ...

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I first heard about The Hole last September after seeing a trailer for it, like all good trailers it didn’t give much of the main story away, indeed it posed many questions about what it was actually about. People lying on the floor looking none too good, claustrophobic conditions and the conclusion they were trapped was all you could really work out. Equally as mysterious was the teaser website that went up. But now The Hole has opened up, ...
...at least 2 Stars before the review starts is this is a British film but its not... a) Romantic b) Gangster What it is, is a rather clever crime/thriller film which has a few twists packed along the way. The basic premise is that four teenagers hide out in an old bunker to avoid going home and a wet Wales weekend. There is the typical Jock, Mike Steel (Desmond Harrington), the typical English lad, Geoff (Laurence Fox) the Barbie Girl, Frankie (Keira ...

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