Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Horror Editor Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. This week, Haleigh and Perri welcome The Hole in the Ground writer/director Lee Cronin, fresh off the Sundance premiere of his A24 horror movie, to discuss what makes A24 horror special, making an evil kid movie without realizing he was, his plans for turning his short film Ghost Train into a feature (you can watch the full short here), and a whole lot more. Watch or listen to the latest episode of The Collider …

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A24 already has quite the track record when it comes to deeply disturbing family horror and that trend continues with their latest, The Hole in the Ground. The movie comes from director Lee Cronin, the filmmaker behind the unforgettable short, Ghost Train, which earned him a handful of accolades on the festival circuit in 2014. I still suspect that short could be ripe for a feature adaptation, but instead, Cronin now turns his attention to the story of a mother and son who move to a secluded home a short walk away from a suspicious sinkhole. Now having seen his …