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A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.


“Fear the familiar.”
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.

Seána Kerslake
Sarah O'Neill

James Quinn Markey
Chris O'Neill

Simone Kirby
Louise Caul

Steve Wall
Rob Caul

Eoin Macken
Jay Caul
Sarah Hanly
Lil Jones

James Cosmo
Des Brady

Kati Outinen
Noreen Brady
Bennett Andrew
Doctor

David Crowley
Teacher
The Hole in the Ground is a horror film released in 2019 exploring themes of nightmare, paranoia, son, forest, mistrust, folk horror. Directed by Lee Cronin, it stars Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Simone Kirby. 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.
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