Found footage rarely gets a setting as isolating as the Stickman's Hollow, a stretch of Canadian-American wilderness where a family fishing trip curdles into a nightmare no one walks away from cleanly.
What is The Stickman's Hollow about?
The premise is simple and cruel: a young couple bring their son on a routine fishing weekend, wander into a patch of remote forest locals call the Stickman's Hollow, and never manage a clean exit. What's left behind is the footage itself, pieced together after the fact, tracking the family hour by hour as an unseen presence begins closing in around their campsite. As the trip unravels, the film layers in fragments of the hollow's older, darker history, suggesting the family stumbled into something that predates them by a long stretch. Director Jack Cox leans on the genre's core trick: withholding a clear look at the threat for as long as possible, letting sound design, tree-line silhouettes, and the family's own fraying nerves do the work. The cast, led by Thomas Cadrot alongside Michael Adamthwaite and Jason Simpson, plays it grounded rather than hysterical, which keeps the found-footage conceit from tipping into parody.
About the cast
Thomas Cadrot anchors the film as the trip unravels, with Michael Adamthwaite, Jason Simpson, and Lucy McNulty rounding out the small ensemble. Ely Jackson, Aidan Drummond, Alexander Brophy, and Cole Howard fill out the supporting roles that populate the hollow's wider mythology.
Context & significance
A Canada-United States co-production, The Stickman's Hollow arrived in 2024 as part of a steady stream of low-budget found-footage horror built around a single isolated location and a small, tight cast. That format keeps the scope modest but lets a director concentrate entirely on atmosphere and pacing rather than spectacle, which is where a film like this either earns its runtime or doesn't.
Watching The Stickman's Hollow on Ktime
The Stickman's Hollow streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for viewers who prefer the film in Farsi or with Farsi text on screen. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to browse without signing in, and the site's Farsi-first interface makes finding the next horror title straightforward for the diaspora audience.