Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

JRose553 I won't say much other than this movie was very boring, the script and acting was terrible, and I'm sorry that I bothered starting this movie that I turned off after sixty minutes.I understand that the actors have to work with what they are given, but Kaley Cuoco has come a long way in the past ten years. I don't know why directors insist on making main female characters in horror flicks so annoying.Stacy Keach was hamming it up, all in the name of a paycheck. Kevin Zegers did a fine job, at least for the first half, and thank goodness Nick Carter has a different day job. I would have rather watched him sing and dance for an hour than to have watched this garbage.

mooncat335 Although not as hideously bad as I had expected, 'The Hollow' is a very paint-by-numbers film. I give it points for a)having some kind of budget, b)the acting generally wasn't awful and c)it had Judge Reinhold in it but other than that, it was your average disappointing 'horror', and I use the term 'horror' loosely. The film is very obviously riding on the success of Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'. Those of you who have actually read Washington Irving's short story will know that most of the characters that Tim Burton put into 'Sleepy Hollow' were not in the original story, it is very heavily embellished. 'The Hollow' tried to make out that the residents of the town were all descendants of the added in characters from Burton's film, the most obvious being Van Ripper, the grubby lunatic who tends the graveyard. (Van Ripper was the coachman in Sleepy Hollow)In the first few scenes of the film, we come to realise that this film is just another Scream/I Know What you did Last Summer/The Faculty clone. Sexy teens Nick Carter the football jock and Kaley Cuoco the cheerleader are mucking about in Sleepy Hollow's graveyard when their friend gets his head cut off by an unseen murderer. Cue Tom Welling lookalike 'Ian Cranston', who we find out is a direct descendant of Ichabod Crane and is the only person who can stop the Horseman chopping heads at random on Halloween.Most of the dialogue is pointless and badly written, as are many of the scenes (Nick Carter's Legend-obsessed character repeately dressing up as the Horseman attempting to scare people gets old very quickly). The action and horror are boring anmd unbelievable, and correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the Headless Horseman was supposed to be without a head. This Horseman has a deformed pumpkin with glowing eyes for a head. It looks more like an onion. The pathetic action comes to an abrupt end in one of the most rubbish finales I've ever seen. If you want a more thrilling story, go and read the book.

despitethesnow The Hollow is the kind of film you watch with a bunch of friends and family who have a good sense of humor. The story uses the archetypal Headless Horseman theme and does a silly bit with poor Washington Irving's grave, but Stacey Keach is priceless as the curmudgeonly Klaus Van Ripper. The name alone is a hoot. What makes this film better ,for me anyway, is that my family and I visit Sleepy Hollow every Halloween for their Legend Weekend festivities. The original Keach character still gives tours of the Old Dutch Church where the bridge used to be and we got some great photographs of him amongst the graves of the Van Alan family. Anyhow, The Hollow, despite some gratuitous gore is not a bad escape for a rainy night and a bowl of popcorn. In addition, the hayride in the film is actually modeled after the Haunted Hayride in Sleepy Hollow that the local High School has been hosting for years.

Lelo34 First off, any movie that has Judge Reinhold as a main character should be immediately pulled off the shelf. Secondly movies like this really shouldn't try and follow 2 story lines. The Headless Horseman, and a strained father, son dynamic? Why? What's the point? Terrible, Terrible movie. There is some decent eye candy as far as ladies, but they make the least attractive the main character, maybe in this cast Kaley Cuocco passed as the only one who could act? Stacey Keach as the drunken grave keeper was pretty funny, what with his tossing "ye" in there every once in a while. All in all, it seems like more and more horror movies have you rooting for the characters to die, instead of rooting for them to escape. Someone needs to realize that having characters that are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard doesn't make for a very riveting, tension filled, horror movie