It definitely had me hooked and I think if you guys like a little action-packed, monster folktales this one is for you.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 30, 2021

While The Hallow indeed captures a certain ambience lost in many glossy, effects laden contemporary horror films, it's a monster movie without any teeth.

| Oct 8, 2020

An atmospheric haunted-house fright tale involving paranormal activities, ecological themes, folklore tales and lots of scares.

| Original Score: B | Apr 2, 2020

Though the jeopardy is built to a palpable level, it dissipates as quickly as the action escalates.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2019

Instead, The Hallow delivers a pedestrian fear-inducing fairy tale that never quite seems to stimulate beyond its impressive scope of shadowy aesthetics.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2018

A promising début that reinforces the latest upwards trend of an abused genre. The Hallow is tense, haunting, horrific and fiendishly frightening

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2018

The Hallow made me afraid of the dark again.

| Aug 20, 2018

The Hallow starts off well, establishing itself as a tense and atmospheric low-budget horror, with its foreboding milieu instilling immediate unease... But it's nowhere near as effective as it promised to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2018

It's an impressive debut feature and will be interesting to see Corin Hardy's elevation from the indie to the mainstream.

| Mar 28, 2018

Different from the usual horror film about a little house lost in the forest. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 29, 2018

By the time The Hallow builds to its breathtakingly personal climax, it's hard not to be impressed by what Hardy has accomplished.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2016

While it won't leave you the unwelcome gift of nightmares, The Hallow is an admirable first-time out for director Corin Hardy. You can see where every cent was spent, but that kind of adds to the fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2016

A sophisticated and scary horror picture with way above-average effects.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2016

This gloomy little film has neither the imagination nor the effects to carry off its story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2016

The Hallow promises to be an Irish mythological horror, replete with wee folk and banshees. Unhappily, it merely namechecks these entities and delivers nothing of the sort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2016

Some scattered thrills can't overcome the pedestrian trappings of this monster movie.

| Dec 31, 2015

What starts off as a decent psychological thriller ceases to be really frightening when we see the Orc-type creatures.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2015

The Hallow is a consistent and efficient exercise in tension and scare tactics.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2015

Corin Hardy's frightening and fantastic horror tale The Hallow packs all the right ingredients for a satisfyingly creepy collision of science and superstition.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2015

This ecologically themed horror movie scores points for atmosphere and imagination, though it isn't particularly scary. The characters are little more than ciphers, so I wasn't inclined to root for them when they got into trouble.

| Nov 19, 2015