Research: 'The Hole' 2001

"The Hole" - 2001



What is 'The Hole' about?
The Hole is about a character called Liz who is first seen stumbling down the road to her school bloody and barely walking. After the police find her you follow the twisted tale of how her apparent best friend and school nerd has sadistically locked her and 3 other members of her school (Frankie, the person Lix idolizes, Mike who she is secretly in love with and wants and Mike's best friend Geoffrey) in an old war bunker in the middle of a woods. He has lured them down there by promising them an escape from a dreaded school trip promising to let them out 3 days later. But Martin never returns.
Liz is the only one who manages to clamber out alive after weeks of sleep deprivation, hunger and dehydration resulting in the 4 teenagers turning to madness. It is the job of Philippa Horwood the psychologist to help Liz re-tell the details of her traumatic experience so they can send Martin to jail. the further she takes Liz through her journey though the more the audience realize Liz's sadistic nature. How she herself locked her and her 3 friends down in the hole to have wild drug fueled parties and sexual intimacies all to try and win the love of Mike. after she realizes her plan is not working and begins to fall through she locks them all in and allows them to die one by one till she releases herself back to reality. the audience follow her twisted mind to see how obsessive love can be for a teenage girl.

"As he begins his version of events, a terrible truth begins to emerge, a truth that will expose the full horror of an obsessive love, a love that will stop at nothing to be fulfilled..."
this is an important quote from the synopsis of the film because this is the exact idea we are looking at.




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I chose to look at ‘The Hole’ as it was a film also set in the woods like our idea, and it had very good twists. From watching the opening sequence and then the rest of the film i found some ideas that i would like to use in my own project. For instance i like how in the opening titles you see one character walking along a road, very dirty and asif she is drugged. There is also lot’s of fliers of missing people and as she look’s at them she gets flash backs from what has happened to her. The camera angles and shot’s are mainly close ups of her face as well. Another thing i liked was that every time a character or production team’s name came up it was in the font of the title on the case of the film and also it appeared with an effect that looked like someone shining a flashlight upon it. I would like to try and use some of these ideas for my own piece.

I particularly liked this idea as it is showing the end of the film at the beginning. However with are piece we want to achieve this more at a faster pace like in 'Shrooms'.