Hollow Pines
AIMDb Rating
51K
Your Rating
Popularity
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“Whatever lives in the pines does not need the door.”
When a hunting accident strands three friends deep in a remote stretch of Vermont woods, they take shelter in an abandoned logging camp until the snow lets up. Strange tracks circle their cabin each night and the pine trees around the clearing seem to lean a little closer by morning. By the second dawn, one of them has begun to behave differently — speaking only after dark, refusing to eat, watching the treeline with something that isn't fear.
- Director
- Curtis Brennan
- Writers
- Curtis Brennan · Eve Holloway
- Stars
- Anne Trumbull · Wesley Roach · Diane Pickett ›
Top Cast (5)
Anne Trumbull
Jess Marlowe
Wesley Roach
Pete Halsey
Diane Pickett
Caro Halsey
Frank Lovell
Deputy Mott
Bea Whittaker
Doreen
User Reviews
5 reviewsA patient, suffocating gem
by midnight_movie_club
Brennan refuses to give you a single jump scare and the film is so much scarier for it. The thing in the woods is barely ever shown and that's the whole point. Anne Trumbull's performance unravels in real time and I couldn't look away.
Folk horror before the term existed
by spookseason_steve
Predates the modern folk-horror revival by decades and frankly does it better than most. The score is barely there, the violence is offscreen, and yet I had to turn the lights on after. Vermont has never looked more wrong.
Atmosphere over story
by casual_horror_fan
Mood for days, plot for about twenty minutes. I get what it's going for but I wanted a little more to actually happen. The ending is genuinely unsettling, I'll give it that.
Where are the kill scenes?
by slasher_purist
Marketed in 1981 as a horror movie and it spends an hour and a half on people staring at trees. If you like that, fine. I wanted what the poster promised.
Anne Trumbull's career-best
by quiet_screams
She does so much with so little — a held breath, a slight smile at the wrong moment. The film around her is good. She is great. The diner scene is one of the most quietly terrifying moments in 80s American horror.
Details
- Release date
- October 30, 1981 (United States)
- Country of origin
- United States
- Language
- English
- Also known as
- Bosque Hueco · Forêt Creuse · Hollow Pines – Das Schweigen der Wälder
- Filming locations
- Stowe, Vermont, USA · Smugglers' Notch State Park, Vermont, USA · Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Production companies
- Mountain Hush Productions · Vermont Folktale Pictures · Wildfire Independent
Box office
- Budget
- $1,400,000 (estimated)
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $480,000
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,200,000
- Gross worldwide
- $9,800,000
Technical specs
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Color
- Color
- Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
