YONKERS FILM: The Hole in the Ground Opened At The Alamo Drafthouse Today

Seána Kerslake stars as Sarah, a young mother who’s moved with her primary-school aged son, Chris (James Quinn Markey), out to a remote Irish home in order to start over away from the child’s father, implied to be abusive.

SYNOPSIS: 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 neighbor shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiraling 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.

Set to be released today, Friday, March 1, “The Hole in the Ground” already has a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hole_in_the_ground

“The Hole In The Ground finds a somewhat fresh angle on the possessed-kid subgenre,” noted Mike D’Angelo of the AV Club

https://film.avclub.com/the-hole-in-the-ground-is-spooky-fun-until-its-big-met-1832899581

The Hollywood Reporter’s Leslie Felperin said, “While this is more generically conventional than Jennifer Kent’s breakout thriller, it still taps potently into parental anxieties and primal fears.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/hole-ground-review-1181547

You can catch it at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Avenue) through Thursday, March 7th