Reviews of The Hole in the Ground – Room For Rent on Gruesome Magazine 66

This week, the Grue-Crew look for a new place to stay whether it be in rural Ireland or in a California suburb. The first film this week is ROOM FOR RENT from director Tommy Stovall where Lin Shaye decides to open a deadly BnB. The second film is THE HOLE IN THE GROUND from director Lee Cronin follows a single mother who encounters a devious doppelganger in an Irish village. Doc Rotten and Vanessa Thompson from Horror News Radio. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era. and Crystal Cleveland, the Living Dead Girl, share their thoughts about this week’s awesome collection of streaming horror films.

Gruesome Magazine Podcast – Episode 066
THE HOLE IN THE GROUND – ROOM FOR RENT

ROOM FOR RENT

Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.

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  • Director: Tommy Stovall
  • Cast: Lin Shaye, Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller

Release: Available May 7, 2019, from Uncork’d Entertainment

THE HOLE IN THE GROUND

A young mother living in the Irish countryside with her son suspects his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest, and fears he may not be her son at all.

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  • Director: Lee Cronin
  • Cast: Seana Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Simon Kirby

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Doc Rotten
Editor-In-Chief / Founder / Podcast Producer at Horror News Radio
Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior.

Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.