Review of The Hollow (2015) by Michael H — 07 Feb 2016

This is an example of a movie that knows what to do with its modest budget. As the majority of the first half of the film relies more on atmosphere (which, to be honest, it isnâ??t entirely successful in doing) than on special effects, it means that more effort could be put into properly creating the monster.

Now the monster, when you boil it down, is nothing more than twigs and a burning light, but itâ??s been designed well enough that itâ??s reasonably creepy. Despite some early scenes which would suggest otherwise thereâ??s also very little blood and gore in this film, and many of the killings take place off-screen. This meant that there didnâ??t need to be an attempt to create horrific scenes which the budget most likely would not have allowed for, and where you do see someone being killed itâ??s more a case of them being charred from the inside out rather than being eviscerated.