The two brothers Dane and Lucas Thompson moved with his mother from New York in a terraced house in Bensonville, a small town in the northeast U.S.. Lucas, a boy curious and vital, while the typical teenager Dane restless, oppressed by the constant moving that the mother submit it. Along with the beautiful neighbor, Julie, Dane and Lucas discovered in the basement of a large house with many padlocks locked trapdoor. Once you uncover the passage, what seems a simple hole in the floor turns out to be a portal to a dimension to take shape in the more remote fears of boys.
From sincere fan of horror movies from the 50s and those found insane promotional proto-interactive and commercial craft, Joe Dante, sooner or later sareband have compared with the 3D technology. He did it in 2003 with a short film created for a Amusement Park and written by RL Stine, creator of the series Goosebumps . The Hole to be from the, one of those tales of terror for children, working on the idea of a dimension parallel and which are formed by the dark fears of those who must learn to fight childhood. then a small Bildungsroman, entertaining and edifying, which is in the range of pre-adolescence and late puberty, ie between the loss of innocence and the acquisition of cynicism, both for age of its protagonists as that of its target reference.
By focusing more specifically on adolescence and emotional potentials of the 3D (functional exploration of the world especially the tale of fear, a kind of scenery andthat alters expression and simultaneously enhances the sense of proportion), Dante seems to put aside the political component of his earlier films.
Among the three dimensions provided there 'room for satire or for that subtext controcultra who had managed to creep even under more commercial films like Small Soldiers . In The Hole, Joe Dante confirms a hybrid a bit 'crazy between Walt Disney and William Castle. Among the imagination of a man concerned to explore the dark side of childhood and that of a madman who still reads the film as a community experience linked to the involvement of the viewer.