The Hollow

Moviecut—The Hollow

Three gals vs a monster, even though they had opportunities to get away. The youngest gal runs off like a 2 year old, if left unsupervised for 30 secs. If i wrote this script, the movie would have been about 10 mins long. As soon as the youngest girl ran off the first time for no good reason, they should have left her there. "The end". I fail to believe this was new behavior for her. At some point you have to cut your losses and save who you can. Toward the end, after the girls find the youngest who ran off again, was an epic stupid scene. One girl sacrifices her self by distracting the monster to save the others. She gets said monster to chase her, ending up in a room with a strong locking door. After monster corners her in the room, she fakes him out, runs back to the door and secures it so he couldn't get out. Why the heck didn't she take 1 additional step, and secure door from outside? Apparently she wanted to be a martyr. Her sacrifice was for nothing, because the run away sister found in necessary to go to the room and unlock the door. Wanted a look at her sisters corpse, and free the monster. The survivors managed to kill the monster because apparently one has the ability to eclipse the sun. If you were the monster and the sun was your kryptonite, wouldn't you call it quits at sun up? Was really hoping the monster would massacre the trio, to prevent them from reproducing and spreading the stupit gene to another generation. I know its a tv movie and not some high budget production, but this is bad. Monster was cool concept, but budget kept from making him great (also script).

The only good thing about this movie was the "monster". It had a good concept to it. That was it. The acting was sub par, the story was long, and drawn out. And yet somehow, it jumped around a lot. The writing was lazy. It was just bad. Do not waste your time watching this. If I hear the name Emma one more time, I'm going to puke... thanks to this movie. It had potential, but the whole thing just felt lazy. I wish the actors and actresses luck in their careers but this is not one I would add to my portfolio if I were them. I truly hope that everyone learns from this experience and moves on to bigger and better projects in the future.

Cora (Deborah Kara Unger) barely escapes a mysterious force. Her nieces Sarah (Stephanie Hunt), Marley (Sarah Dugdale), and Emma (Alisha Newton) arrive on Shelter Island to stay with her. The sisters are out of money after the death of their parents and the treatment for the traumatized Emma. Seth (Richard Harmon) follows them. They run out of gas and find a dying Aunt Cora in her crashed car. They rescue a heavily injured woman who tells them that the killings would continue until the end of Halloween. Deborah Kara Unger is probably the only recognizable name and she gets killed off right away. The production is lower level. Harmon has great creepiness. The girls are functional actors. The cast could work but there isn't much style to the horror directing. The CG is lesser TV level. The creature design is pretty good but it should only come out during the night. It looks cheap in daylight. This is a lesser TV horror.

I'm pretty sure that a full 2/3 of this script was just the word "Emma".... Is that a spoiler? I don't think that's a spoiler. If anything, it's the only thing this movie has going for it. I want to say it's the acting that's miserable, but it's probably the writing and the directing as well. The monster is uninspired, the pacing is acidic, and.... (is this five lines yet?) OK, I've already spent more time on this review than the movie deserves. You can do better! Somewhere out there is paint that is drying! Go watch that!

Let me start off by saying if, god forbid, I ever had another child and it was a girl, 'Emma' would be the last choice on my list of baby names and it's all thanks to this film. Actually, not even the last choice. There's a negative one billion chance that 'Emma' would ever make the cut. But I digress. This shallow excuse for a horror plot revolves around three stunningly idiotic sisters who are going to visit their aunt on some remote island after their parents were killed in a car wreck. The youngest sister, Emma, was also there and barely survived herself according to the middle sister, Marley, though Emma shows no outward physical signs of trauma. Just a mopey teenage girl who is already hurling head-long into goffdom at the age of fourteen. I give it another year before she's painting her eyes black and donning spiked dog collars while listening to The Cure on repeat. Since the car wreck, EMMA! is understandably devastated, but she takes it just a teensy bit too far with her, "Everyone around me dies," schtick. But she is correct. Everyone around her does die, but it's only because she keeps running off on her own which prompts her sisters to constantly chase her around the island, shouting, "Emma! EMMA!!!! EMMA!!!!!!!!" Obviously the townsfolk know a lot more about what's going on than the Three Stooges here, but despite their repeated advice to stfu, Sarah and Marley are steadfast in their pursuit, not to mention their complete inability to care about anyone else aside from EMMA!! "Whoops, we just got another islander killed with our incessant shrieking. Oh well. EMMA!!!!!" The two older sisters seem to be under the impression that they are just as expendable as the islanders. The audience nods in agreement. On another note: Marley seems to be suffering from a terrible case of Middle Child Syndrome. Just an observation. Honestly at this point, just let the stupid kid go where she wants and if she gets eaten by the big scary fiery twig monster, so be it. Also, what was up with Seth? What's his story? Does he have one? Does anyone even care? All in all, the premise was promising, the atmosphere was primed for some great spookiness, but the execution was a god awful failure. The only "horror" I experienced was the fact that this film made it to publication. There was little to no plot and if you even figured out what that was, congratulations. There was no character development, not even among the sisters. The smart people died off quickly while the three insipid baffoons remained alive until the end. Only in a cliched horror flick is that ever possible, though I still can't figure out why.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I watch all type of movies, sometimes even if reviews are bad just so I can rate it myself. This movie goes around stupid people doing stupid things. Normal people is not stupid, so why making a film with people doing and deciding stupid things? One of the actresses, the blue eyes one, seems mad all the time, yelling at everyone constantly. Why? And with her eyes wide opened ALL THE MOVIE!!! Like in a panic situation all the time too. Stupid! Stupid moments and actions happen repeatedly during the movie making you say "How...? What the...? Why she...?". Like when one of the sisters was tied up, with a rag covering her mouth so she couldn't scream and her wrists and feet tied with rope, but her hands and fingers free!!! And she was like "Hmhmm!!! Hmhmhhhmmm! Hmmhmm!". Why didn't she use her hands to remove the rag from her mouth? Or to remove the rope from her feet? So stupid! Or when they were walking on the forest looking for the power plant and suddenly, just because one of the sisters walked a few more steps than the other, they get separated. The sister left behind starts calling for the other but the other sister never responds. Suddenly again, the other sister appears safe, telling the other to continue towards the plant. So, why would someone not respond to his/her partner call if she's a few meters away from you, more important, if she's your sister and you are together in the middle of a forest in a dangerous situation? Stupid! These were just two examples of stupid stuff, and so many other things happen out of nothing, just because. The only star I give is because of the monster originality. Overall, a hollow and stupid movie full of nonsense.

Ooookay. So, take three sisters, one of whom has oddly prophetic dreams, all are emotionally disturbed after the recent loss of their parents and strand them on an island where a supernatural entity is stalking them. Sounds like the greatest survival horror premise ever... Sigh. The entire movie is too bright, the monster shows up early and often, and the dialogue is terrible, the story makes no sense, there is no lighting change between night and day, the smartest of the sisters makes the dumbest move, and I'd almost be rooting for the monster if it weren't dumber than a sack of hammers itself. Despite looking like the greatest Metal album cover of all time, it's too stupid to kill three idiotic girls who spend the entire movie intentionally splitting up for stupid reasons. The sad thing is that this movie had such great potential!

From the first minute I wanted the sisters to die. The movie is bad produced in so many ways I don't want to waste another 90 min describing them. Acting, directing, script... A lot of meaningless characters. None of the thing that happen are important. If a character is wounded, don't worry, he/she will be able to walk without any injuries. If you think someone is going to explain WHY of everything, don't expect that much. There is not even a bad explanation. Please, don't waste your time watching this movie. It is not even scary or fun, it's a hollow, a REAL hollow.

I found the plot to be wonderful. Up and coming actresses and actors I like Richard Harmon from The 100. For me The Hollow had way to much over excitement and overly screaming. It got to annoying. The end of the film was kinda strange for me. All that thing needed was a ray of sun light. I found it to be so off just knowing that fact. Apparently I noticed a 2018 version on the make. This was a low rating. Hopefully they can bring it back up with a better sequel. Take not of what we feel about it, and turn it into something spectacular. Use the very same actresses and actors that survived. Give it a twist of fate like Tremors.