The world would be a less-stressful place, or at least a less silly one, if clueless people would stop checking into creaky old houses on the edge of dark forbidding forests. Especially if they’re unstable young moms accompanied by their small sons. And extra-especially if they can experience an encounter with a crazy old lady who shuffles up to them and screams “It’s not your boy!” and somehow fail to accept this as food for thought.
Sarah O’Neill (Seána Kerslake) is an emotionally troubled woman who has arrived with her cute kid, Chris (James Quinn Markey), at a ramshackle fixer-upper she’s bought on the outskirts of a small Irish town. The house is gloomy, and the forest nearby is capital-o ominous. Late one night, Sarah awakes and discovers that Chris is not in his bedroom. She makes her way outside with a flashlight and enters the woods. She doesn’t find Chris there, but she does come upon a huge, well, hole in the ground—a vast sinkhole about the size of a soccer field, if soccer fields were perfectly round and filled with perilous sand. She still doesn’t find Chris and so returns to the house—where she is startled to discover that her son is now present. How could she have thought otherwise, he wonders in eerie innocence, writes Kurt Loder in his review of The Hole in the Ground.
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