well acted & made with slick precision. + In a narrative sense; the film very much picks up where Corin Hardy's THE HALLOW left off (Not to mention many other "Swapped with an Evil Double" thrillers). So I can't articulate why exactly so much of HOLE IN THE GROUND just rubbed me as a lesser-BABADOOK (2014).. Also, I personally felt the kid was never conceptually quite scary enough when things began to get real