Memorable, crazy movie

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

A pair of brothers stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that leads to the darkest corridors of their fears and nightmares. The Hole is directed by Joe Dante the man behind classics such as Gremlins and Gremlins 2 unfortunately tho this movie wasn't as good as i expected it to be plus the whole film felt to me kinda lost since it didn't know what it really wanted to be. Was it an adventure? a comedy? a sci-fi? or a horror flick? Cause it was neither thrilling or scary enough to say so for sure. The acting was good but the story? Was disappointing. (5/10)

This is really a kids film. I went in expecting something more like the Ring or Ouji and taking the blurb to heart I was prepared for some spooky creepiness. I wasn't disappointed with the special effects, and the creepy girl crawling back into the hole definitely got my attention, but the pace and dialogue are definitely aimed at engaging and relating to a pg audience and not really scary or interesting by horror movie standards. Also, the acting was really pretty lame, the little boy was OK, but the other two had such forced and stilted interactions with each other and the other characters that it was actually an effort not to just give up watching part way through. It felt very compartmentalized and I was honestly disappointed at the lack of deaths happening, not even deaths off-screen or something. The old guy who owned the place before the family moved in promised they would all die, but it didn't even come close, 0 out of 3(4?)! When the clown doll didn't grow Freddy claws and slaughter the kid I knew something was up and that is when I looked it up on my phone here and saw that the rating was pg13 and I just sat through the rest of it ashamed for myself and the movie.

Chris Massoglia and Nathan Gamble play brothers Dane and Lucas, who move into a new home with their mother, where they discover a strange trapdoor down in the basement secured by numerous padlocks. Rather than report their unusual discovery to their mother, the boys open the door to reveal a bottomless hole that feeds on their innermost fears. Together with Julie, the pretty teenage girl next door, the brothers attempt to overcome their dread and defeat the malevolent void.I'm a huge Gremlins fan and love Piranha, but much of Joe Dante's work leaves me feeling rather indifferent. Innerspace, Explorers, The 'Burbs, The Howling, Small Soldiers: all reasonably entertaining but rather forgettable examples of fantasy cinema. The Hole 3D is yet another title on Dante's resumé that amounts to little more than a passable time-waster.Feeling much like an extended episode of Rod Serling's TV classic The Twilight Zone, The Hole delivers a fair amount of creepy atmosphere that will no doubt succeed in unsettling sensitive younger viewers, but which is unlikely to have much effect on anyone beyond their early teens. Mark L. Smith's stale script recalls movies such as The Gate, Poltergeist, and House, while Dante attempts Spielberg style domesticity, delivers predictable PG-rated scares, and regurgitates the weird and wonky set design from his 'It's A Good Life' Twilight Zone: The Movie segment for the film's forgettable finalé.

A highly disappointing children's horror film, especially so given the calibre of cult director Joe Dante. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is Dante's worst film, at least of the ones I've (usually) had the pleasure of watching so far.The big problem with THE HOLE is the script, written by the same guy who brought us VACANCY and VACANCY 2. It has the same paucity of imagination as either of those movies; I feel that the writer was brought up on the fun-filled adventures of the 1980s and tries to recapture the same spirit here, but despite flashes of inspiration the results never gel.Not that Dante doesn't try; indeed there are occasional glimpses of his old magic at work, but they're few and far between. The first half of the film is the best, a slow exercise in gradual build-up that benefits from a decent performance from the child actor Nathan Gamble. Unfortunately, that same slowness continues into the second half, where the promise of a spectacular denouement never arrives and it all ends in the most lacklustre way imaginable.The horror is limited to old tropes borrowed from the likes of POLTERGEIST and THE RING and there's no imagination to be found anywhere. The CGI effects are pretty poor and although I saw this in 2D it appeared that the 3D wasn't up to much either. Altogether a very poor effort from a usually reliable source.