Jonathan Clark The movie is compiled mostly of scenes with sex, drinking, fighting, and swearing. It's nearly all garbage. Just profanity. Just love junk. What is worst about this movie is that there are already many foreshadowing signs from the beginning all the way to the slow (but somewhat scary) end. I didn't really understand the point of the ruins. The dead fox reappearing everywhere made it also seem very obvious something was coming yet the whole gang still decided to test what originally was thought to be a myth. The big mysterious tree and profiles of people's hangings never hits their fear senses until the end when they themselves become foolish victims. This movie tired my eyes and almost helped me fall into a deep sleep. This movie is even worst then 'Unfriended'. This movie is the only reason why my Monday sucked.

markhale-22640 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.

greedydrunk Please look in the comments section of this movie and you will see proof that people were paid to rate this a nine or ten. This is not a good movie, and lets go over why it is not good. Found footage film where nothing happens until the last ten minutes.No ones phone works, what a surprise... No one is really friends and are easily turned against each other. People go off alone and get attacked, everyone knows this has happened, one person goes looking for them. This process repeats until everyone is dead. There are lots of opportunities to leave, no one tries to leave. Tree is evil and is well known for hundreds of years, yet no one tries to chop it or burn it down, or hire contractors to get rid of it. For some reason no matter what is happening someone picks up the camera and films...OMG I am being killed, better setup the camera so someone can watch this later. Its just not good, its not the worst movie I have ever seen but its as boring as your parents vacation pictures until the last ten minutes.

Shawn Stetsko the concept seemed a little more innovative than most, and I saw some good characterization and background work being done for the first half. It seemed they were fleshing out a nice little film... and then it became another lousy found footage film. Screaming, running around, getting lost, cheap CHEAP effects, screaming, stupidity, infighting, and then more screaming. I was feeling generous on giving it a 3, and I do so because lately every horror movie I have checked out has been a found footage piece and they almost have all been worse... and I gave one a 2 so 3 it is. My God, will someone please bury this dead horse already because people keep kicking it and it is not smelling any better with the abuse.