A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Please look in the comments section of this movie and you will see proof that people were paid to rate this a nine or ten. This is not a good movie, and lets go over why it is not good. Found footage film where nothing happens until the last ten minutes.No ones phone works, what a surprise... No one is really friends and are easily turned against each other. People go off alone and get attacked, everyone knows this has happened, one person goes looking for them. This process repeats until everyone is dead. There are lots of opportunities to leave, no one tries to leave. Tree is evil and is well known for hundreds of years, yet no one tries to chop it or burn it down, or hire contractors to get rid of it. For some reason no matter what is happening someone picks up the camera and films...OMG I am being killed, better setup the camera so someone can watch this later. Its just not good, its not the worst movie I have ever seen but its as boring as your parents vacation pictures until the last ten minutes.

I'm giving the movie a score of 5 because it's not the worst movie I've ever seen.Generally, you can judge the quality of the movie by how big the parts you want to complain about are. I know, bad grammar. Shoot me. If you only have small stuff to gripe about then the movie was probably relatively watchable.In this film, the big parts of the story work together pretty well, but are simply not interesting. The entire construction of the film is essentially the mindless, random passing about of a video camera as two couples work out their pathetic relationship problems, and occasionally scare themselves in the dark and run and scream a bit.Oh, and then they all die. THAT IS NOT A SPOILER by the way, because you learn it at the very beginning of the movie, which counts as a huge disconnect in my opinion. They literally start the film off by telling you that four people died under this tree and oh yeah we found a video camera because they recorded everything they ever did because "documenting" petty problems with endless hours of footage is apparently the new fashion. Pretty cool huh? No.I almost turned the movie off right there. I should have, it would have saved time. Why would anyone want to continue to watch after they tell you the end of the story right away? Obviously, it's to see HOW they died. Oh joy.Unfortunately, here is where the small details that don't work come in. To begin with, the movie is supposed to be footage that the police recovered. Despite that, almost all of the footage, until the end, has nothing to do with anything the police would be interested in. Also, the sequence of video clips are pieced together with the seeming intention of annoying the viewer. There are at least 4 very small clips that don't contribute anything at all to the story, and several scenes that leap about to new situations or cut into/out of climactic moments. Almost everything the characters do is completely non-intuitive to normal human behavior. They use that camera to film at the most incredibly inappropriate times, they even use it for voyeuristic purposes, apparently without changing the tape. They routinely shine the light into each other's eyes at night while they are trying to "see what's out there," and even the last surviving character takes a moment to turn the camera on herself to film herself crying for NO REASON.It's all the small stuff that caused me to give this film a 5. On the whole, the movie is not original. It's just more of the same sort of tacky scare tactics that we've come to expect from movie makers without a budget.I swear, I curse the day that the "found footage" model of horror movie making began.

I remember seeing this movie at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal. I am a big fan of those Found Footage movies... really I do love them, but That movie... boring... bland... forgettable at most.I kinda felt bad in the theater... the producer and director where present and were happy to present us the movie in exclusivity... people seemed happy and all in the room... but by the time the movie ended, it was dead silence... the movie crew were standing in front of the screen, waiting for perhaps some cheering or even question from the viewers... but Nothing... everyone in the theater were bummed and leaving silently. Producers were standing still in an awkward silent room with people trying to flee. Yeah the movie is that bad.

Four twenty-somethings—Emma (Emily Plumtree), her fiancé Scott (Matt Stokoe), her best friend James (Sam Stockman), and his girlfriend Lynne (Jessica Ellerby)—take a holiday in the countryside where an evil presence lurks inside an ancient, hollow oak tree, preying on negative thoughts, causing relationships to crumble and ultimately driving victims to a terrible fate.Hollow has been described as the British Blair Witch Project, which is another way of saying that it is a complete and utter rip-off of the 1999 found footage 'classic', only set in rural Suffolk, England. And if, like me, you weren't all that impressed by Blair Witch, then I think it's highly unlikely that you'll enjoy this one either.With four characters experiencing relationships issues, it proves extremely tedious. What's more boring than watching people wander aimlessly round the countryside in the dark? Watching them doing it while bickering, that's what! After an hour-and-a-half of following the unlikeable quartet as they investigate the local legend of Greyfriar's Hollow (as the tree is known), snort coke, argue, get lost, and become scared of their own shadows, you'll be longing for them all to die. Which they do, of course.*2/10, plus one point for the gratuitous nudity from blonde hottie Ellerby (whose character is so dumb she doesn't think to wipe the tape when filmed in the bathroom), but minus one for for the contrived manner in which a good length of stout rope, so vital to the film's final scene, is shoe-horned into the script (really, who the hell uses rope for securing luggage to a roof-rack when bungee cords and tie down straps work so much better?).*NOT a spoiler, since we are told that they all die in the very first scene.