The Hole (2001 film): Difference between revisions

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...

 

 

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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: In this case {{spoiler|Liz}} 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 {{spoiler|We see the real story the same things they used appear again such as Frankie getting sick (and eventually dying), the water going off and everyone ganging up on Liz.}}

* [[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 {{spoiler|Mike jumps on it to catch Liz, causing it to break and stab him.}}

* [[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. {{spoiler|Then it turns out she's a psycho [[Alpha Bitch]]}}.

* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|It was all Liz's fault; she held herself, Frankie, Mike and Geoff hostage because she wanted Mike to fall in love with her, and caused Frankie's death, and had Mike murder Geoff because of what he thought to be the last can of stuff to drink they had; Mike found out about Liz when he woke up to see her opening the door of the "hole", he angrily climbed up the stairs to wring her neck and unfortunately ended up getting killed. The psychiatrist knows the truth, but Liz managed to set a trap on her and to pin the blame on somebody else - Martin, who she has drowned right after hiding the key in his pocket.}} And in an [[Alternate Ending]] {{spoiler|We saw her beginning another obsession, now with long blonde hair and calling herself 'Beth'.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|Liz shows genuine remorse for Frankie's death and actually was planning to open the bunker the night she died}}.

* [[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.

* [[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 [http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ Charterhouse], where the author was a student.

* [[The Ghost]]: Mike's ex-girlfriend Amber.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Keira Knightley]], [[American Beauty|Thora Birch]], [[13 Ghosts|Embeth]] [[Bicentennial Man|Davidtz]] and [[Dexter|Desmond]] [[Wrong Turn|Harrington]].

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|After Liz reveals to Mike that she locked them in order to make him fall in love with her, Mike curses her and threatens to kill her. Before he can get to her, the ladder which he's climbing on breaks and stabs him in the chest.}}

 

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