John and the Hole2021
Directed by Pascual Sisto
🏆 3 wins & 7 nominations total
The premise
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.
Horror Vault's take
Thirteen-year-old John makes a disturbing choice when he discovers an isolated bunker in the woods near his family's affluent Massachusetts home — one that grants him a terrifying kind of freedom. What unfolds is a quiet, deeply unnerving portrait of a boy testing the boundaries of power over those who love him most. Director Pascual Sisto crafts a film more concerned with psychological dread than conventional horror, letting silence and emotional detachment do the heavy lifting. The result is a slow-burn meditation on adolescence that lingers long after the credits roll.
Content: Depictions Of Drugging And Captivity, Psychological Distress, Child As Perpetrator Of Harm, Themes Of Family Endangerment
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