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.
The Hollow
2015
Action / Horror
Plot summary
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse a hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.
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lackluster horror
I didn't believe. You have to see.
Three sisters go to live with their Aunt Cora (Deborah Kara Unger) on a remote NW island. It is Halloween and there is a monster thing (see DVD cover) on the loose and it is killing the residents. Emma (Alisha Newton) the youngest of the 3 sisters sees its killings in her dreams. We get an explanation of what this is by Toby (Dylan Playfair) who looks like a young Kurt Russell.
This is a made for TV film. Nothing the kids can't see outside of a little horror. I thought the opening build up was good with Aunt Cora and Emma being spooked out. However once the film gets going, it gets into a rut and can't generate any more horror.
Just Bad
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!