Primary Cinema presents The Changeling Face of Irish Horror

Primary Cinema presents The Changeling Face 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. One of Ireland’s premiere video essayists, Gavin of Primary Cinema has been providing excellent insights into filmmaking and film…

Director John Farrelly talks the spirits driving An Taibhse

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

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

‘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…

Watch Out! The Watchers or The Watched? What Are We Watching: Livewatch

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

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…