Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

RaoulGonzo Finding a seemingly infinite hole in the basement of their new home. Two brothers and the girl next door soon find their fears start coming to life. Not a particularly original concept, playing with fears either conscious or not but always a good opportunity for some inventive scares. I believe this was Joe Dante's 'comeback' after a few years in a directing Haitus. At the time I remember being interested, along with John Carpenters 'the ward' which was his first feature in a decade. The Ward I watched with unspectacular results. The hole doesn't make a promising start as we are introduced to the two stiff lead brothers, they crawl into their role eventually but are largely unemotive (is that a word?). It's the introduction early on to Haley Bennet who plays the girl next door that really lights up the film. She is the star, and does an amazing job with some of the more drub dialog. She is the key for making the relationships believable. Bruce Dern gets five minutes to chew the scenery, which is an added bonus. The hole (in 3D, which I forget about and counts for some of the bad visuals) gets straight on with the horror, the horror is family friendly and really does play to its target audience. Age old fears are played with - toy clowns, what's under the bed etc. Nothing new for anyone with even a vague knowledge of the genre. There are effective scares here as Dante plays with an unnerving tone, there is an over reliance on score but it doesn't bother too much. There are some outrages character decisions as the tale becomes more fantasy than horror. You really just have to skip over that. In the end The Hole is an entertaining teen horror, the fast pace is ideal to cover plot holes and it's never dull if all a little predictable.

BA_Harrison 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.

shtove Basically it's a Disney plot for 12 year olds with a couple of scary bits to market it as a horror.The darkness in the bottomless Hole forces people to face up to their past. And of course in the end the heroes pull through, better for their experience.A lot of horror clichés - the abandoned fair ground, the spooky little girl (which was well done at first), people walking out of the shadowy basement when they should be running.I liked the actors, and the production had plenty of money behind it. But the story was confused, lacking a reason for this supernatural force and ending weakly as if it were all a dream. There was too much music to create effect, and the swing between horror and flippant comedy did not work.

gavin6942 A pair of brothers stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that leads to the darkest corridors of their fears and nightmares.Although most of the cast here is unknown, there are some great character actors: Bruce Dern as Creepy Carl and Dick Miller briefly as the pizza guy (I would have liked to see more, but at least he appeared -- a Dante film without Dick Miller just is not right).Certain aspects of the film I did not care for, as it felt too modern and not Dante's strongest work. The computer graphics on the clown were good, but not great, and I would rather have seen a practical effect. Also, the first several minutes of the film just seemed like any other movie and did not have the "Dante feel".I hate to be critical, though, because overall it is a pretty good film and really brings to mind some great 1980s horror films. Primarily "The Gate" (another hole to hell story), but just the concept of kids facing off against the bad guys. The 80s and early 90s were great for that, and it was nice to see Dante try to capture that here. Not sure it was completely successful, but still pretty good.