Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Samantha (Jessica McLeod ) is a foster teen who lives in a home loved by her foster mom (Jana Mitsoula)...foster dad (John Emmet Tracy) not so much. She is tasked with watching her 10 year old sister Olivia (Hannah Cheramy) and walking her home from school through the forest. Instead Samantha goes and burns one with her doobie sister (Genevieve Buechner) and Olivia becomes lost in the woods. When Olivia returns, she is not the same and creates issues. It was an interesting plot, one that is similar to some other films. I didn't like how they made Samantha using her arm as a cutting board. Seems more like they found how to create a special effect and needed to use it somewhere. May have worked better in a colonial time period. The explanation for the forest creatures was pretty quick and I felt incomplete. Guide: No swearing as I recall. No sex, or nudity

Pros: Cinematography is well done Acting is exceptional at moments Practical effects were decentCons: The soundtrack of the film is a bit overbearing and often leads to more of a sensation of melodrama rather than suspense The feeling of dread and suspense doesn't really kick in until the later half of the film The film relies on multiple occurrences of look in direction, nothing there, look away, look back, somethings there. This happens to end up flawed since suspense is not built up enough for these moments to pay offOverall, a good watch but I wouldn't suggest paying a full price of admission to a theater. The film feels more at home on a movie streaming service.

This film is based on very common folk tale. I saw many demon child movies. Children of the Corn, Pet Cemetery etc. It means many movie genre fan are still love this kind movie. I expect baby face killer. And there is but this is not that much brutal and doesn't have much gore scenes. So, I think The Hollow Child is fully enjoyable for fun and mid horror.

Remember those painting kits where you filled in the colors by the numbers? This is the film equivalent. All the stock conventions are used, there's not an ounce of originality in the whole movie. No surprises,no shocks, from the very beginning it follows its predictable course until the very last moment when we get the usual cheap horror film trope of the 'shock' ending.The story is the age-old myth of the changeling. Children are vanishing into the woods and being replaced by the creatures that dwell there, goblins, fairy-folk, Hollow Ones, call them what you will.The actors do their best with the material but it's beyond help, lazy writing and bad directing. The final shot is laughable. (I'd have given the film a 4 but for the idiotic ending. Avoid if you value your time.