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Back in 2020 Damian McCarthy gave the indie horror world goosebumps with his debut feature Caveat, a creeping Irish horror...
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Irish folklore and supernatural mystery collide in Ishana Shyamalan’s debut feature The Watchers, adapted for the screen by Shyamalan from...
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Music is one of the most mysterious natural phenomena of our world and in Irish folk horror All You Need Is Death, music becomes an ancestral force of doom and destruction. Written, directed, and produced by Paul Duane this chilling slow-burn dives headfirst into a hallucinatory world that peels back...
Ireland may not be the first country that springs to mind when you think of horror movies, yet it harbors...
Time and time again, horror proves itself to be inherently queer. From misunderstood outcasts battling social constructs, to brutal transformations...
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A small town in Northern Ireland is turned upside down when a notorious local murderer is released from her life sentence. Mandrake is a moody crime drama that invokes Irish folklore to tell a story about the bonds of mothers to their children, and the bonds between mothers. Run to...
Horror movies wouldn’t be horror movies without a good villain that you love to hate! While we can all acknowledge...
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Is it possible to be a low-brow plot snob? Because if so, I definitely am. I like a story. With...
Kate Dolan’s debut feature You Are Not My Mother world premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, creeping out the unsuspecting Midnight Madness crowd. The film follows a young girl who suspects that her mentally ill mother might have been replaced by a monster. Set in Ireland, in the days leading...
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Anything can happen on Halloween night as Kate Dolan’s You Are Not My Mother details. More likely than not, you’ll just...
This month at Nightmare On Film Street, we’re nearing the End of Days. Like many tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts, I’ve...
Rarely do we find comedy in carnage, but debut feature director Kirill Sokolov marries the two cinema components with guts and glory in his debut feature, Why Don’t You Just Die!. While Sokolov portrays his bold influencers through film, he is surprising audiences with a unique brand of Russian dark...
