Hollow (2011)

Not even bad in a good way

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

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.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

As my previous reviewers already said, the main issue with this movie isn't the story but the characters itself. None of them is likable, starting from a hysterical whiny woman who seems to be the main character but you want her dead so badly, to her douche boyfriend, her somewhat acceptable friend and his absolutely plane blonde girlfriend. All of them screaming around and running into circles just by hearing a bird. The story could have been really interesting if they would focus on that, but they chose to give us a glimpse of the personal issues of the characters, but not that much so we could possibly care about. Overall nice to watch once, but there are definitely better mockumentaries out there.

The movie is compiled mostly of scenes with sex, drinking, fighting, and swearing. It's nearly all garbage. Just profanity. Just love junk. What is worst about this movie is that there are already many foreshadowing signs from the beginning all the way to the slow (but somewhat scary) end. I didn't really understand the point of the ruins. The dead fox reappearing everywhere made it also seem very obvious something was coming yet the whole gang still decided to test what originally was thought to be a myth. The big mysterious tree and profiles of people's hangings never hits their fear senses until the end when they themselves become foolish victims. This movie tired my eyes and almost helped me fall into a deep sleep. This movie is even worst then 'Unfriended'. This movie is the only reason why my Monday sucked.

I remember seeing this movie at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal. I am a big fan of those Found Footage movies... really I do love them, but That movie... boring... bland... forgettable at most.I kinda felt bad in the theater... the producer and director where present and were happy to present us the movie in exclusivity... people seemed happy and all in the room... but by the time the movie ended, it was dead silence... the movie crew were standing in front of the screen, waiting for perhaps some cheering or even question from the viewers... but Nothing... everyone in the theater were bummed and leaving silently. Producers were standing still in an awkward silent room with people trying to flee. Yeah the movie is that bad.

Emma (Plumtree) takes her fiancé Scott (Stokoe), best friend and former fling James (Stockman), and blond Lynne (Ellerby) to an English countryside to go through her recently deceased grandfathers stuff. She finds out about local folklore which leads the group to a huge tree in the hollow that apparently has an evil force within it that makes people commit suicide. Instead of following this potentially creepy storyline, this film spends most of its running time showing jealous James trying to break up Emma and Scott so he can be with her. This soap opera goes back and forth with plenty of fake scares that don't work well. Shot like a found footage film, this movie starts out with its opening scene being Police footage which clearly state that 4 bodies were hanging from the creepy looking tree. This quickly cuts to our four friends heading to the same location. I've heard of giving away the ending in advance but in the first scene? Why watch the rest if you already know their fate? Bizarre decisions like this and not enough action makes this a tedious viewing. Still, the film frustratingly shows flashes of something better and the ending is chilling. A better film could have come out of this material.