The Hole (2009)

92 min · Ghost-House-Movies, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film

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Directors

Joe Dante

Cast

Teri Polo, Haley Bennett, Chris Massoglia, Nathan Gamble, Bruce Dern, Quinn Lord, Mark Pawson, John DeSantis, Douglas Chapman, Peter Shinkoda, Jonathan Bruce, Merritt Patterson, Chelsea Ricketts

The story

Teenager Dane, his little brother Lucas, and their mother, Susan, move from Brooklyn to the quiet town of Benzonville, Oregon, where Dane and Lucas befriend their teenage neighbor Julie. While exploring their new home, the kids discover a trapdoor with locks in the basement. They open the trapdoor and reveal a hole that appears to be bottomless.

Catalogue themes and tags

2000s, Affright, Brother Brother Relationship, Cellar, Childhood Trauma, Clown, Cowardliness, Door, Goblin, House, House Swapping, Kind, Mother Son Relationship, Mystik, Nachbarn, Spukhaus, Tod des Geliebten, Trapdoor, Trauma, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, alptraum, evil, supernatural, vater-sohn, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Adventure

Genres

Ghost-House-Movies, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film

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