The Hollow (2015)

After enjoying The Veil last night, I decided that I wanted to venture toward something different. After some thought and intrigue, I decided on the other movie The Hollow, this one from 2015.

Plot/ It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the hollow.

While I had no expectations for this one, it was still difficult to watch and did not bring anything but cliché to the screen. Between the uneven acting, a riddled storyline that was both incoherent and unbelievable, and predictable and cheesy CGI effects, this movie really did nothing to make it feel redeeming. In fact, it was one of the first movies in some time that I just wanted to turn off and go to sleep. In the end, I cannot in any way recommend this movie to horror fans. Unless you are a giant fan of SyFy Channel creature features and have a bucket list to watch all of them, stay away!

The Hollow (2004)

After watching The Watcher last night, I decided to see what would come out if I just left Hulu play. That movie is my next review, the 2004 entry The Hollow.

Plot/ Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?

The Hollow is an interesting modern adaption of the Washington Irving classic tale of Ichabod Crane; unfortunately, it does not fully deliver of the idea. While the cinematography is not bad, the pacing decent, and some of the effects do deliver, for some reason it just does not make an impact. Yes, it was targeted for a younger audience, but it comes across like a mixed up Saturday Afternoon Special that was trapped somewhere in the 1980s. Of course, this could be from the clichéd moments, the uneven scripting, and some questionable performances (not to mention the subpar headless horseman costume). In the end, The Hollow would be good for some type of teen Halloween party, and should not be added to your horror collection.