We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. One of Ireland’s premiere video essayists, Gavin of Primary Cinema has been providing excellent insights into filmmaking and film…
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Director John Farrelly talks the spirits driving An Taibhse
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. You wait forever for a horror film as Gaeilge and then two come along at once. While…
How to Horrorthon: Darcie Faccio talks us through the IFI Festival
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. Film festival programmes tend to be tied to a locale, especially in Ireland. Our calendar celebrates the films of…
‘Sure, if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry!’: Ireland’s new wave of Horror-Comedy
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. Genre crossovers have been attempted to varying success throughout film history. Sometimes, a screenwriter or director’s experimentation…
The Mommy Issues of Irish Horror
We’re living in the Golden Age of Irish Horror and we’re dead excited about it. Throughout October we’re celebrating Samhain with interviews, reviews and retrospectives, that show how Ireland has risen to the top of the horror hierarchy. Ireland is haunted. Not by the spirits of its infamous writers walking the halls of Trinity Library,…
Pretty Deadly Films #15 – the SPORTS issue
Pretty Deadly Films celebrates the best of blockbusters and beyond. Our latest issue is available now. The stakes in sports may seem to be simple matters of winners and losers, but from the underdogs to the kings, every sporting success is built on a thousand little cinematic stories: overcoming the doubters, the setbacks and hurdles, the…
The unintentionally grim meta-narrative of Alien: Romulus
In 1979’s sci-fi classic Alien, Ian Holm played the role of a machine, wearing the skin of a human, designed to prioritise the corporation it served. On the face of it, the movie is about a monster battling the crew of a spaceship, but underneath is the allegory of corporate greed consuming human life. Unlike…
More Irish soccer stories to make into movies after Saipan
In news that this writer immediately sent to everyone he knew in an unbecoming frenzy, they’re making a film about the most important event in 21st century Irish history: Roy Keane being sent home before the World Cup. Saipan, a new film about the events leading up to Ireland’s incendiary 2002 World Cup campaign, will…
Watch Out! The Watchers or The Watched? What Are We Watching: Livewatch
The Watchers, the feature directorial debut of M. Knight Shyamalan’s daughter Ishana Shyamalan, is coming soon to Irish cinemas. The film began production in Galway in summer 2023, and wrapped principal photography in September of that year. The film stars Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds) as Mina, a 28-year-old artist, as she gets stranded…
5 things movies show us could be worse to come out of the Dublin-New York Portal than a lad showing hole
A portal to another world has suddenly appeared in Dublin. And while that other world may just be New York City, any self-respecting film fanatic knows that when a portal suddenly appears, it’s time to take notice. There may be great danger, or a flimsy excuse for a listicle, on the edge of emerging. Since…