The Hole in the Ground

Mar 1, 2019

1h 30m

★ 5.6

Fear the familiar.

Overview

Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Bankside Films

Wrong Men

Head Gear Films

Metrol Technology

Savage Productions

Made

Wild Atlantic Pictures

The Hole in the Ground Trailers

Cast

Sarah O'Neill

Seána Kerslake

Chris O'Neill

James Quinn Markey

Louise Caul

Simone Kirby

Rob Caul

Steve Wall

Jay Caul

Eoin Macken

Lil Jones

Sarah Hanly

Des Brady

James Cosmo

Noreen Brady

Kati Outinen

Doctor

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Teacher

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Detective

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"It"

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