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The Hallow (2015)

The Hallow poster
Directed by
Corin Hardy
Genre
horror film
Country
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 689 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A conservationist brings his family to a remote Irish village to study a forest. The locals warn that the woods are home to dangerous fairies, and the family soon finds itself under attack.

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What happens

The Hallow (originally titled The Woods) is a 2015 supernatural horror film directed by Corin Hardy, written by Hardy and Felipe Marino, and starring Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, and Michael Smiley. It is a British-Irish co-production filmed in Ireland. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on 25 January 2015. In the film a conservationist and his family visit an isolated village in Ireland, because he wants to explore a nearby forest. Local legend suggests that the forest is inhabited by hostile fairies, and the family is soon attacked by these fairies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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