Tag: Irish Horror
Would you answer the door for a stranger and let them into your home? The year 2024 has been abound with diverse horror releases, ranging from a slasher largely observed from the killer’s perspective, a film featuring a child vampire ballerina, and a crime thriller showcasing Nicholas Cage in a way that we never could
There have been plenty of Irish horror flicks in the past, but John Farrelly’s latest film, Ah Taibhse (The Ghost) marks a first. Marketed as the first and only horror movie produced entirely in the Irish language, it focuses on a father and his daughter hired as Winter caretakers for an isolated Georgian Mansion, only
Idiot Boy is a 2023 shot-on-video faux documentary written and directed by Luke De Brún, with additional writing from Dan Doyle. Beginning filming in September 2018, the film was created over a four to five-year period in South Dublin. Primarily known as director of music videos for the likes of Madison Front and Chinese Newspaper,
Fishmonger is a 2023 Irish supernatural horror comedy, written and directed by Neil Ferron with additional writing from Alexandra Dennis-Renner. Not his first time behind the camera, Neil is known as the writer and director of the short films Hoof (2020), and Sausages (2020). Whereas Alexandra has worked as a writer and director on the
Usually the domain of fantasy, fairy folklore becomes pretty dark when you dig down into the pre-Disney origins, especially when we consider Grimm fairytale literature as an early inspiration to such a cinema scene; some horror movies will run with that macabre genesis! Here are 5 films you can watch that embrace the nasty side
Horror comedy is such a subjective film genre. Hell, comedy in general is tough enough because what’s funny to me might be completely boring to you. So how do you tread into that territory with horror? I think the key factor here is the intention behind the movie. There are a ton of the “so
“A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering father and son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.” All horror legends begin with a kernel of truth; whether it is a collective trauma visited on a sleepy town long before written history, a very real and very violent