Hollow (2011)

As my previous reviewers already said, the main issue with this movie isn't the story but the characters itself. None of them is likable, starting from a hysterical whiny woman who seems to be the main character but you want her dead so badly, to her douche boyfriend, her somewhat acceptable friend and his absolutely plane blonde girlfriend. All of them screaming around and running into circles just by hearing a bird. The story could have been really interesting if they would focus on that, but they chose to give us a glimpse of the personal issues of the characters, but not that much so we could possibly care about. Overall nice to watch once, but there are definitely better mockumentaries out there.

Throughout the whole film.. There are nothing?! Seriously.. No ghost,demon,monster,alien etc.. U can't see no nothing, not even an evil unseen force that scares u like Paranormal Activity. There are suppose to be an unseen evil force around that makes people committing suicides but the film makers depends solely on the actor's acting so maybe they can cut cost on special effects.. The whole movie are just mainly focusing on running and screaming the moment they hear some sounds.. Don't even know what they are running from. Really can't see anything at all in the whole movie that chases them.. Its like they are running from thin air.. And the movie comes to an end with all of them dead. Supposing the remaining 3 friends got killed by the possessed James.. U don't even get to see how James hang them. U only get to see James hung himself lastly.. What i can say is, from the start of the movie they run from nothing, hide from nothing and really die for nothing in the end.. And thanks for nothing for making this ridiculous movie.. I gave 2 points due to that nice body of that blonde and nice scenery on that open field..

Hyperventilation and hand-held cameras, a form as superficial as the film title suggests. Hollow, hapless and needlessly heeding, 'Hollow' is a found-footage film made from the second-hand wool of the Blairwitch and knitted into a jumper with two legs. An unexplained documentation of the folklorish 'suicide tree' in Suffolk - a Burton-esque tree ala 'Sleepy Hollow' - results in some danged twenty-something star-crossed lovers in meeting their untimely death. But lo and behold, they've recorded it all for no apparent reason other than to bore us with a half-baked story of love triangles and an ominously rooted sapling imbued with the notoriety of the golden gate bridge.The premise, which had some room to manoeuvre but didn't, is actually the best thing about the film. The tree has some mystical quality to it: its grandeur omnipotent, its open crevice through the bark intriguing, its myth - though far-fetched - compelling. These qualities were not utilised to the film's advantage, opting for a cheap implicature (that has no resolve) and swarms of red herrings that add absolutely no value to a narrative adamantly focused on banal teeny-romances and infidelities. Griping further, the found- footage format is so ineffective that the film is a torrid watch. The camera, at least for the first half of the movie, has no motivational function at all. Even when it is used as a motorisation to the unfolding plot, it is used primarily for its light source. Innovative, yes, but for the spectator to regard, it's messy, incoherent and inadvertently abstract. It's not that there hasn't been some introspection in creating the machination of reality - the East Anglian video report at the start of the film, camera-wielding asthmatics, plumb points of perspective - it's that the filmmakers have gone ultra-rustic in their 'real' approach in attaining verisimilitude. Even the budgetary aesthetics of found-footage have some stylistic credibility, notably to make sure that the audience can buy-in to the concept and follow the story with relative ease. 'Hollow' isn't (and doesn't need to be) a compositional masterpiece - found-footage films rarely are - but it DID need some traction to tie the viewer to the film instead of the over-the-top slop on hand. As it is, the film may as well have been shot by a five year old with an iPhone. If cinematography is completely redundant, so is the shot itself and ergo the film. 'Hollow' is a film disadvantaged by the charismatic lure of guerrilla filmmaking, proof that the appeal of the found-footage technique cannot be taken for granted and is not apt unless there is a valid substantiation.

I saw an ad for this movie on a horror site. Came to IMDb and saw that it had a 6.5 rating on here. Reviews say how amazing it is. I watched it. It was awful. I assumed I was just trolled by fake reviews. I was. If you look at the positive member reviews, click on the name of the person who posted it. This is the one and only movie those "members" ever reviewed. Didn't even attempt to cover their tracks by throwing in some other random reviews. Nope, just the one. The people behind this movie are trolls and their movie is awful. In fairness, it's my own fault for not doing making sure the reviews were legit. Lesson learned.