Hollow
Empty
horror
Deep in the
heart of the Suffolk countryside, by a ruined monastery, stands the shell of an
ugly, twisted tree, cursed by an ancient evil which seduces seemingly happy,
loving couples into committing suicide by hanging themselves from its
branches.
When Emma (Emily
Plumtree), her fiancé
Scott (Matt Stokoe),
her best friend James (Sam Stockman) and his new girlfriend Lynne (Jessica Ellerby) decide to spend a weekend in the country
at her dead grandfather’s (He used to be the local priest! Ahhhhh!) cottage they become fascinated by tales of the local
suicide spot and start questioning the locals (well the new priest and a
fisherman anyway) about the legends, the obsessive James filming everything
with his video camera.
But when the
power fails at the farm, the group’s increasingly drunken and coke-fuelled
revelries expose uncomfortable home truths (James has always loved Emma,
Scott’s an obnoxious philanderer, Lynne’s a bit slutty, Emma weeps more than a
drunk, 30-something singleton watching Beaches alone on Valentine’s Day) that threaten to destroy
them…
Another week,
another mediocre low-budget, found footage horror film full of British soap
actors squealing hysterically and jumping at shadows while running around a
field in Suffolk in the middle of the night. Starring refugees from Hollyoaks and Holby City, Hollow is everything you expect it to be from its
tension-destroying opening where a police spokesman tells us that the bodies of
four young people were found hanging from the tree, thus eradicating any
reason to watch the film,
through to its murky climax where the four are assailed by an unseen force that
manages never to be caught on camera.
A mediocre exercise in futility, Hollow offers no surprises other than the fact filmmakers
are still aping The Blair Witch Project by making these soulless, pedestrian, found footage
films.
David Watson
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Genre:
Thriller
Language:
English
Runtime:
1 hour 31
minutes (approx.)
Certificate:
15
Rating:
1/5
UK Cinema
Release Date:
Friday
25th January
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