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The Hallow
Why this pick
Irish woodland folklore, a vulnerable young family, and an encroaching sense that something may be taking a child make this a strong atmospheric companion.
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MOVIE2019 1h 30m IRL
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Hole in the Ground
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Why this pick
Its unsettling attention to children whose behavior becomes frighteningly unknowable echoes the emotional discomfort at the center of Cronin’s film, with restrained, creeping tension.
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The Dark
Why this pick
This bleak rural horror uses damaged parent-child dynamics and a forbidding forest atmosphere to create a similarly sorrowful, threatening fairy-tale mood.
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The Babadook
Why this pick
Its raw portrait of a struggling single mother and a son she increasingly fears matches the original’s emotional core, while letting supernatural anxiety grow from domestic strain.
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Under the Shadow
Why this pick
A mother’s determination to protect her child amid an unseen presence gives it the same close-quarters maternal terror, with fear intensified by a pressured home environment.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Seána Kerslake
Sarah O'Neill
John Quinn
Detective
David Crowley
Teahcer
Steve Wall
Rob Caul
Simone Kirby
Louise Caul
James Cosmo
Des Brady
Eoin Macken
Jay Caul
Kati Outinen
Noreen