John And The Hole Ending Explained: Why John Trapped His Family

John and the Hole is the 2021 debut feature film from Spanish director Pascual Sisto and its statements on wealth, maturity, and evil make for an intriguing deep dive. A coming-of-age movie with a dark angle, John and the Hole‘s title tells the audience exactly what the film is about

. Unsurprisingly, the movie is centered around 13-year-old John (Charlie Shotwell), the youngest child of the affluent Shay family, and it’s also very much about a hole in the ground, one John stumbles across in the woods behind his home.