{"id":22613,"date":"2016-10-05T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T01:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22613"},"modified":"2016-10-05T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T01:44:10","slug":"the-hollow-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/the-hollow-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hollow (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the-hollow-poster\"<\/a>In a small town in the Deep South, a young local is killed along with a couple of young tourists.\u00a0 One of these tourists being a congressman\u2019s daughter from out of state, the case is assigned to the F.B.I. who sends agents Vaughn Killinger and Sarah Desoto to investigate.\u00a0 As Killinger battles his demons and Desoto tries to keep things together, a tangled web of connections and secrets is unraveled. Writer\/director Miles Doleac builds an effective suspense thriller murder mystery.\u00a0 The characters he creates are complex with no one being good or truly bad.\u00a0 His characters are very human with different flaws of varying gravity, none fully hate-able.<\/p>\n

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These characters are not loveable either but in most cases their intentions are good or trying to be good.\u00a0 The script and the characters create good tension and suspense. The cast of these characters is led by Miles Doleac as Ray Everett, the sheriff, James Callis as F.B.I. Agent Vaughn Killinger, and Christine Seidel as F.B.I. Agent Sarah Desoto.\u00a0 All three do well with their parts, Callis getting the most meat on his character\u2019s bones and the most emotional variety to work with, allowing him to show range and that he can handle more emotional scenes.\u00a0 His character has issues and demons and this gives him more to work with.\u00a0 Doleac\u2019s part is a strong, sketchy officer of the law who\u2019s forced to let others on his territory and he plays it well, giving off a nicely territorial vibe with a touch of self-preservation.<\/p>\n

Desoto for her part is almost more of a supportive character with a lot of screen time.\u00a0 Her subplot with Callis\u2019 Killinger is almost unnecessary but while it does not bring much to the action, it does give more depth to her character and thus to her performance.\u00a0 Also notable in smaller but impactful performances are William Sadler, Jeff Fahey, and William Forsythe. The Hollow uses its locations like extra characters.\u00a0 For example, the D.C. bar at the start has a special quality to it with lighting that makes it feel like a warm and comforting place.\u00a0 Later into the film, Big John\u2019s mansion is shown towering in all its plantation-style grandeur, lit in a way that makes it stand tall and proud in its environment.\u00a0 The house is imposing, regal, and almost scary.<\/p>\n

Both of these locations are used to establish characters and add to the feel of the film and they work beautifully well. Adding to this is the cinematography by Ben McBurnett that frames these locations as well as the small town and its surrounding nature in a way to make them one of the film\u2019s stars.\u00a0 The film looks good throughout, pulling the viewers in the scenes and making them feel the action with visuals that add to them.<\/p>\n

The Hollow is a good whodunit-style suspense thriller with enough characters to make one\u2019s head spin.\u00a0 These are kept in order with good writing and directing as well as talented performances.\u00a0 The clues dropped along the way will help the viewer get an idea of who might have done it with some guessing it about midway through but without clear proof until the end.\u00a0 This does not however take away from the film\u2019s enjoyment and its ending is quite satisfying.\u00a0 The webs of secrets and interpersonal connections it builds pay off in the end when things come together and make sense without taking the viewer for an idiot and over explaining everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a small town in the Deep South, a young local is killed along with a couple of young tourists.\u00a0 One of these tourists being a congressman\u2019s daughter from out of state, the case is assigned to the F.B.I. who sends agents Vaughn Killinger and Sarah Desoto to investigate.\u00a0 As Killinger battles his demons and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[240,302,696,703,1087],"class_list":["post-22613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22615,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions\/22615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}