‘Hell Hole’ Review – This Monster Movie Needs To Dig Deeper
The Adams family films have been on the up and up lately, catching the eye of horror enthusiasts ever since The Deeper You Dig in 2019. Their tendencies for lingering, dread-infused horrors present in their recent filmography grew in Hellbender to play with something more overt and in your face. That is to say, a good bit more daring. The Adams family have pushed their efforts here towards daring in a greater capacity. The family’s latest film Hell Hole stars John Adams and Toby Poser, who also direct the film, and on paper, everything points to an enormous reference to The Thing . It veers from this crutch very early on, but it does find itself touching on similar themes of othering & paranoia, with the addition of environmental messaging. Boris Lukman in Toby Poser & John Adams’ HELL HOLE. Courtesy of Shudder. A Shudder Release. Setting the scene for its borrowed themes of alienation sees Emily and John (Poser and Adams, respectively) ...