Daniel Brocklebank, Desmond Harrington, Embeth Davidtz

Four teenagers (Birch, Harrington, another girl, another boy) attending a private school find a mysterious hole in the ground leading to an underground structure originally built as a bomb shelter.

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R, 102 min.

Directed by: Nick Hamm

Release Date: January 1, 2001

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DVD Release Date: October 19, 2004

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  • September 25, 2009
    More like the Bumhole! Keira Knightley got her tits out before she was 16! That?s nasty!
  • July 12, 2009
    The Hole is a great blend of horror and psychological thriller. It's disturbing, not only in the amount of physical violence that the characters inflict on each other, but in the film's analysis of one girl's willingness to do whatever it takes to win over the object of her affe...( read more)ction. Thora Birch and Desmond Harrington star alongside a young Keira Knightley.
    Nick Hamm, who will go on to direct the forgettable Godsend, delivers a clever, tense, and terrifyingly realistic look at high school obsession underlying a whodunit that will have you guessing right up till the very end!
  • October 25, 2008
    The Hole is a twisted film, of young love and obsession. It is the story of four teens that attend a private school. They ditch class one day. One of the girls, harbors a secret desire for one of the boys. She devises a plan for them to hang out, in this abandoned bomb shelter wh...( read more)ich she had stumbled across. What starts out fine, turns terribly convoluted and deleterious.
    I thought Thora Birch was amazingly dark and wonderful in the role of Liz. This movie made me think back to fatal Attraction's rabbit boiling days, In that fact that one person can become so consumed with desire that they push themselves over the edge.
    This film definitely puts a new light on getting what you want, and what you will do to get there. The Hole is a good thriller horror. It shows Keira Knightley in one of her first main roles. It is worth the watch.
  • October 9, 2008
    A dark, claustrophobic thriller that exceeds in everything from the typical all-American teen horror films.
  • July 6, 2008
    "So Fucked Up" highlight: girl pukes herself to death
  • November 25, 2009
    I wasn't so thrilled with this film. In fact I'd go so far as to say it was pretty lame. I rented the film because I thought the concept was interesting.-four highschool students trapped in an underground bunker sounded like a pretty interesting social experiement, but it turned ...( read more)out to be rather brainless.
    The story was primarily about a young woman's obsession with a goodlooking and popular a-hole (with zero charm). Thora Birch is Liz Dunn, the protagonist with a pretty sketchy British accent. I just didn't care about any of the characters, the only exception being Laurence Fox's character, but I think I have a soft spot for him because I love him on the British mystery series, Inspector Lewis.
    I generally don't mind if a film follows one direction and then veers off into another but I really don't know what purpose it really serves in this case.
    What I did like was the grittiness. The bunker is realistically dirty and the bathroom facilities are less than ideal. And the side story involving Keira Knightley's character's eating disorder which involves diet pill-popping shows us how ugly it can be to look pretty.
    I find it interesting how Knightley's featured on the movie poster though she is a secondary character, Definetly there as eye candy. We all know Thora Birch doesn't quite measure up to Hollywood's narrow standards.
    Overall I say skip this one. And I still (days later) can't stop cringing when I think about the incredibly lame ending.
  • November 21, 2009
    Interesting horror about a group of public school students that go down an abandoned shelter to get out of a school trip but get more than they bargained for. Good story with some cool twists.
  • October 23, 2009
    A clever, psychological horror type thing! It's good! Be surprised, I wasIn fact every time I watch it I expect to go "omg, it's such trash" and it's so not!
  • September 18, 2009
    Really intense film. Everyone was truly great. Love it.
  • August 18, 2009
    Yes,this looks to be a thrilling movie for me,i like the actors and actresses,cant wait!

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  • DuncanRR
    January 4, 2008
    It's pretty ironic that they're using Keira Knightley to sell this movie now that she's been landing larger roles than the one she had in "The Hole". Not only is her face on the DVD cover, but her name is in the little review quote on the cover as well. It's pretty obvious that it isn't Knightly that "Gets More Than a Few Pulses Racing", but if her name's in the review, hey, put it on the DVD box. If her name's on it, it's sure to sell, right?
  • ironclad1609
    May 5, 2007
    Decent movie, but how dare they changing their poser to a picture of Keira? Sure, she is huge now, but with her rather small role this is not her picture, but Thora Birch's.
    Silly.
  • FarOutBoyScout
    January 21, 2007
    it was weird kinda disturbing but a wicked movie
  • lilj809
    November 9, 2006
    Yeah I thought it weird also that she had her face on the poster when she was like the first to die...but oh well...it's still a great movie
  • mrbungle782
    October 2, 2006
    It's funny that since Keira Knightley has exploded her head is the only thing you can see on the film/DVd poster, and yet she plays such a small part in the move, especially compared with Thora Birch. Oh well, maybe my Thora will eventualy get her due.
  • spiritualchild
    August 11, 2006
    OMG!! i love this movie!! a little creepy but good to watch!! i love Thora Birch. i do admit it was a little hard to follow but all the same a great movie to watch!!
  • dancewithesther
    August 9, 2006
    omg what a scary movie!!! and knightly dies too!!! but it's really interesting and sad the whole time and keeps you on the edge of your seat, literrally!!!

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