The Hole (2001)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 102m
Director: Nick Hamm
Cast: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Keira Knightley, Steven Waddington
Synopsis:
Four sixth formers at an English public school get out of going on a wet Geography field trip by paying a friend to lock them into an abandoned bomb shelter in the school grounds for three days so that they can party. What ensues is unclear at first, but looks bad for all but one of those involved.
Review:
Quite how the plumbing and toilet facilities are in any usable condition after so long in disuse is one of the questions left unanswered by this genre-sparking variant on the American college thriller (cf. O). The American cast members are knowing nods at a transatlantic market and the public school characterizations are only partly convincing. Much hinges on one's ability to swallow the central premise that a girl should be so lovelorn as to risk her friends' well-being for a love catch, but it holds the attention reasonably well. There followed more overt entries in the horror genre by Brit directors featuring young casts.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 102m
Director: Nick Hamm
Cast: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Keira Knightley, Steven Waddington
Synopsis:
Four sixth formers at an English public school get out of going on a wet Geography field trip by paying a friend to lock them into an abandoned bomb shelter in the school grounds for three days so that they can party. What ensues is unclear at first, but looks bad for all but one of those involved.
Review:
Quite how the plumbing and toilet facilities are in any usable condition after so long in disuse is one of the questions left unanswered by this genre-sparking variant on the American college thriller (cf. O). The American cast members are knowing nods at a transatlantic market and the public school characterizations are only partly convincing. Much hinges on one's ability to swallow the central premise that a girl should be so lovelorn as to risk her friends' well-being for a love catch, but it holds the attention reasonably well. There followed more overt entries in the horror genre by Brit directors featuring young casts.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 102m
Director: Nick Hamm
Cast: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Keira Knightley, Steven Waddington
Synopsis:
Four sixth formers at an English public school get out of going on a wet Geography field trip by paying a friend to lock them into an abandoned bomb shelter in the school grounds for three days so that they can party. What ensues is unclear at first, but looks bad for all but one of those involved.
Review:
Quite how the plumbing and toilet facilities are in any usable condition after so long in disuse is one of the questions left unanswered by this genre-sparking variant on the American college thriller (cf. O). The American cast members are knowing nods at a transatlantic market and the public school characterizations are only partly convincing. Much hinges on one's ability to swallow the central premise that a girl should be so lovelorn as to risk her friends' well-being for a love catch, but it holds the attention reasonably well. There followed more overt entries in the horror genre by Brit directors featuring young casts.