The Hole (1997 film)
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Music director Dong-seong Kim Duration | 7/10 Genre Drama, Thriller Screenplay Hye-yeong Yeo Writer Hye-yeong Yeo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1 November 1997 (1997-11-01) Initial release November 1, 1997 (South Korea) Cast Similar movies Related Kim Sung-hong movies |
The hole aka olgami and the trap bathtub drowning scene
The Hole (Hangul: 올가미; RR: Olgami; literally "The Trap") is a 1997 South Korean film directed by Kim Sung-hong.
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Plot

Jin-sook has a close relationship with her son, Don-woo, and is surprised when he announces his engagement to Su-jin. After the wedding, the three end up living together, with a nervous Su-jin keen to impress her new mother-in-law. But Jin-sook is determined to sabotage her son's marriage.
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Release
"The Hole" premiered in South Korea on November 1, 1997, and attracted a total of 141,717 viewers in Seoul, ranking it as the tenth highest-grossing Korean film of that year.
Critical response
David Cornelius of DVD Talk found the film somewhat limited in scope, saying, "The limitations placed upon the story prevent any broadening of ideas, leaving us only with a clichéd chunk of domestic thriller that plays out by the numbers". However, he also acknowledged that such limitations also helped the film in other areas, saying, "The Hole becomes very claustrophobic, with a tension that never lets up for the last forty-some minutes. It's grandiose and outrageous, yes, but it's also highly effective in building the right kind of scares".
References
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