The Hole (2001 film)

"Desperate to get in. Dying to get out."

This 2001 British thriller is about a young woman who mysteriously reappears after having vanished from her private school for 17 days. A young psychiatrist takes on her case and finds out a disconcerting truth...

Not to be confused with the 1962 short film of the same name, or the gay porn parody of The Ring.


 * Adults Are Useless: In this case  knows their uses and manipulates them for her own ends.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: Geoff though he turns out to be alright after all.
 * Cerebus Callback: In Liz's version of events the group make up a fake scenario to fool Martyn. The scene is done comically but then when
 * Chekhov's Gun: We get some very obvious zoom ins of the old ladder rocking when people climb up and down but it doesn't come into play until the very end when
 * Closed Circle: The bunker.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: Mike.
 * Coitus Uninterruptus: Mike and Liz have to sit in the same room and try to sleep while Frankie and Geoff go at it. Geoff then has to endure the same another night with Mike and Liz.
 * Cool Loser: Liz is apparently this at first..
 * Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): Played with. Annoyed that Mike is paying attention to Frankie, Liz pulls him off her and hits his head off the wall. Mike says "Are you fucking nuts?" while Geoff and Frankie clap.
 * Downer Ending:  And in an Alternate Ending
 * Even Evil Has Standards:.
 * Everyone Loves Blondes: Liz attempts to invoke this thinking Mike will fancy her and so dyes her hair blonde. Then she notices that she's literally surrounded by blonde bimbos trying to get Mike's attention.
 * Every One Remembers the Stripper: Yes, this is the movie where Keira Knightley flashes her boobs.
 * Fake Brit: Thora Birch (American) as Liz
 * Faux Horrific: After the hair dyeing scene mentioned above we see something red spilling into the bath. It turns out Liz just dyed her hair back.
 * Fictional Counterpart: The book is based in a thinly-disguised version of Charterhouse, where the author was a student.
 * The Ghost: Mike's ex-girlfriend Amber.
 * Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Frankie.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Keira Knightley, Thora Birch, Embeth Davidtz and Desmond Harrington.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
 * Jerk Jock: Mike and Geoff
 * Karma Houdini:
 * Lovable Alpha Bitch: Frankie.
 * Manipulative Bitch :
 * Manly Tears: Geoff and Mike . Martyn also has a big breakdown.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Mike when he.
 * Plenty of Blondes: Played for Drama as Liz nearly has some kind of anxiety attack when she sees herself surrounded by blonde bimbos all determined to catch Mike's eye.
 * Rapunzel Hair: Frankie.
 * Red Herring:.
 * Unreliable Narrator: The psychiatrist knows Liz is being this one when her story has a happy ending, given the fact that . Though she doesn't know that the reason she is is because.
 * This is even more true in the book, since the entire thing is from perspective, and we only get a hint of the truth at the end in
 * The Reveal:
 * Tempting Fate: Lampshaded as Frankie tells the boys to stop saying 'what if something happens to Martyn and later blames them when he doesn't turn up.
 * There Are No Therapists: Averted initially as the police therapist guesses early on  but then played straight when.
 * Throw It In: Frankie saying "go!" to the little boy while on the phone was ad-libbed by Keira Knightley.
 * Trailers Always Lie: This might be the prime example; this trailer promotes the movie like it's some kind of Slasher Movie when it's clearly not.
 * Uncanny Valley Girl:.
 * Would Hit a Girl: Mike is definitely set on outright killing.
 * Yandere: