History Film / TheHole

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Liz. She trapped the others in the hole so she could get closer to Mike.]]

* FakeBrit: Thora Birch (American) as Liz

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/KeiraKnightley, Creator/ThoraBirch, Creator/EmbethDavidtz and [[Series/{{Dexter}} Desmond]] [[Film/WrongTurn Harrington]].

* ThrowItIn: Frankie saying "go!" to the little boy while on the phone was ad-libbed by Keira Knightley.

Based on the novel ''After the Hole'' by Guy Burt, the film starred Creator/ThoraBirch as Liz, Creator/KeiraKnightley as Frankie, Creator/EmbethDavidtz as Dr. Phillipa, Laurence Fox as Geoff and Desmond Harrington as Mike.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Played with. Annoyed that Mike is paying attention to Frankie, Liz pulls him off her and hits his head off the wall. Mike says "Are you fucking nuts?" while Geoff and Frankie clap.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Geoff though he turns out to be alright after all.

Based on the novel ''After the Hole'' by Guy Burt, the film starred Creator/ThoraBirch as Liz, KeiraKnightley as Frankie, Embeth Davidtz as Dr Phillipa, Laurence Fox as Geoff and Desmond Harrington as Mike.

Not to be confused with another work called ''[[ParallelPornTitles The Hole]]'', which is a gay porn parody of ''TheRing''; ''{{Holes}}'' by Louis Sacher; or ''The Hole'' (2009).

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Keira Knightley]], [[Film/AmericanBeauty Thora Birch]], [[Film/Thir13enGhosts Embeth]] [[BicentennialMan Davidtz]] and [[Series/{{Dexter}} Desmond]] [[Film/WrongTurn Harrington]].

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Liz. She trapped her friends down to the hole so she could get Mike to fall in love with her. When that didn't work, she pins the blame on Martyn by hiding the kid in his pocket. And she gets away with everyone.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Keira Knightley]], [[AmericanBeauty Thora Birch]], [[Film/Thir13enGhosts Embeth]] [[BicentennialMan Davidtz]] and [[{{Dexter}} Desmond]] [[Film/WrongTurn Harrington]].

Based on the novel ''After the Hole'' by Guy Burt, the film starred ThoraBirch as Liz, KeiraKnightley as Frankie, Embeth Davidtz as Dr Phillipa, Laurence Fox as Geoff and Desmond Harrington as Mike.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: This might be the prime example; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0E75vi3ETc&feature=related this trailer]] promotes the movie like it's some kind of SlasherMovie when it's clearly ''not''.

* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: Yes, this is the movie where Keira Knightley flashes her boobs.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It was all Liz's fault; she held herself, Frankie, Mike and Geoff hostage because she wanted Mike to fall in love with her, and caused Frankie's death, and had Mike murder Geoff because of what he thought to be the last can of stuff to drink they had; Mike found out about Liz when he woke up to see her opening the door of the "hole", he angrily climbed up the stairs to wring her neck and unfortunately ended up getting killed. The psychiatrist knows the truth, but Liz managed to set a trap on her and to pin the blame on somebody else - Martin, who she has drowned right after hiding the key in his pocket.]] And in an AlternateEnding [[spoiler: We saw her beginning another obsession, now with long blonde hair and calling herself 'Beth'.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: The psychiatrist knows Liz is being this one when her story has a happy ending, given the fact that [[spoiler: all the other kids in The Hole with her are dead]]. Though she doesn't know that the reason she is is because [[spoiler: it's all her fault]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Keira Knightley]], [[AmericanBeauty Thora Birch]], [[ThirteenGhosts Embeth]] [[BicentennialMan Davidtz]] and [[{{Dexter}} Desmond]] [[Film/WrongTurn Harrington]].

* BottleFairy: Frankie.

Based on the novel ''After the Hole'' by Guy Burt, the film starred ThoraBirch as Liz, KieraKnightly as Frankie, Embeth Davidtz as Dr Phillipa, Laurence Fox as Geoff and Desmond Harrington as Mike.

This 2001 British thriller is about a young woman who mysteriously reappears after having vanished from her private school for 17 days. A young psychiatrist takes on her case and finds out a disconcerting truth...

Not to be confused with another work called ''[[ParallelPornTitles The Hole]]'', which is a gay porn parody of ''TheRing''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Keira Knightley]], [[AmericanBeauty Thora Birch]], [[ThirteenGhosts Embeth]] [[BicentennialMan Davidtz]] and [[{{Dexter}} Desmond]] [[WrongTurn Harrington]].

* Yandere: [[spoiler: Liz. She trapped the others in the hole so she could get closer to Mike.]]

* [[ManipulativeBastard ManipulativeBitch]] : [[spoiler: Liz again]]

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Played with. Annoyed that Mike is paying attention to Frankie, Liz pulls him off her and hits his head off the wall. Mike says "are you fucking nuts?" while Geoff and Frankie clap.

* CerebusCallback: In Liz's version of events the group make up a fake scenario to fool Martyn. The scene is done comically but then when [[spoiler:we see the real story the same things they used appear again such as Frankie getting sick (and eventually dying), the water going off and everyone ganging up on Liz.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: it was all Liz's fault; she held herself, Frankie, Mike and Geoff hostage because she wanted Mike to fall in love with her, and caused Frankie's death, and had Mike murder Geoff because of what he thought to be the last can of stuff to drink they had; Mike found out about Liz when he woke up to see her opening the door of the "hole", he angrily climbed up the stairs to wring her neck and unfortunately ended up getting killed. The psychiatrist knows the truth, but Liz managed to set a trap on her and to pin the blame on somebody else - Martin, who she has drowned right after hiding the key in his pocket.]] And in an AlternateEnding [[spoiler: we saw her beginning another obsession, now with long blonde hair and calling herself 'Beth'.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Liz again]]

* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Liz]]
* [[spoiler: LoveMakesYouCrazy: Very crazy Liz...]]

* [[spoiler: {{Yandere}}: Liz]].

* [[spoiler: WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: If Mike had paid attention to Liz... or if Liz wasn't such a psycho.]]
** The director outright says in the commentary that [[spoiler:Mike would have lived if he'd just agreed to go for pizza with Liz right before they were about to leave the hole (leading Liz to hide the key, etc.)]]

* FictionalCounterpart: The book is based in a thinly-disguised version of [[http://www.charterhouse.org.uk/ Charterhouse]], where the author was a student

* CoolLoser: Liz is apparently this at first. [[spoiler: Then it turns out she's a psycho Libby]].

* LovableLibby: Frankie [[spoiler: in Liz's story. Then we see the real story and she's a typical Libby]].

* [[{{ptitlexn9xzsjd5fif}} Chekhov's Gun]]: We get some very obvious zoom ins of the old ladder rocking when people climb up and down but it doesn't come into play until the very end when [[spoiler: Mike jumps on it to catch Liz, causing it to break and stab him.]]