The Hole (DVD)

Liz Dunn has a major crush on fellow student, Mike. 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 escape and blames Martyn for their predicament. She is later interviewed by a psychologist about what happened. But some parts of her story don't quite add up. What really ...  Read the complete review

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 kids, Liz (Birch), Frankie (Knightley), Mike (Desmond Harrington) and Geoff (Laurence Fox - who I think is dating Billie Piper) are just looking for a good time, but something goes badly wrong… Anyway, the ...  Read the complete review

Each time I rent a film that has been labelled with the genre horror I sit down with a certain amount of trepidation. Horror has always been my favourite genre but actually finding a good one is difficult. Oh so bally difficult. So you see I’ll watch anything vaguely related to horror, and if I find an 18 rated film (attached to said horror film) I have a curious belief that it must contain something that’s made the censors rate it in such a manner. So it was with “The Hole”. An 18 rated certificate of a film that the trailers had rendered scary and on the cover The Sun (whose’ opinion I should by now have learnt not to care for) ...  Read the complete review

The Hole is a 2001 psychological thriller that premiered in the UK in April of the same year. It never got released at the cinema in America, although the rights were aquired, it went straight to video 2 years later. The film was based on the book, After the hole by Guy Burt. The Hole is rated 18 because of full frontal nudity, sexual scenes, strong violence, strong language and scenes of underage teens drinking and using drugs. The film is 98 minutes long. PLOT At the beginning of the film, we meet Liz, a student at a private school in England. We see her running through the corridors of the school , bloody and in a state. She rings 999 and ...  Read the complete review

Now, let's pretedn we're a teenage girl for a second (now i want to look in my mirror....wait =, how's that different from anyday....) anyhoo, you're a teenage girl, and you have a crush on the cool guy at your school, so what would be the best thing ever if you were finding it hard to get him to notice you? Maybe if you were locked in an underground bomb shelter type place for days with only their company and your two best friends right? Wrong. This fantastic romance movie, which gradually turns into a mild horror, is a severely underated classic. Plot- Thora Birch stars as Liz, who has a massive crush on the much fancied Mike Desmond ...  Read the complete review