PREVIEW: Boys From County Hell (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jack Rowan (Benjamin), Nigel O’Neill (A Good Woman Is Hard To Find), Louisa Harland (Standby), Michael Hough (My Name Is Emily), John Lynch (Angel Baby), Fra Fee (Pixie), Morgan C. Jones (The Fox), Andrea Irvine (Evelyn), Robert Nairne (The Secret of Marrowbone), Marty Maguire (No Saints for Sinners), Kathy Monahan (Kissing Candice), Emma Paetz (Final Girl), Jordan Renzo (Chosen), David Pearse (Grabbers), Stella McCusker (Sanctuary), Lalor Roddy (Hunger), Conor Grimes (Cup Cake), Bronagh Elmore (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Chris Baugh (Bad Day for the Cut), director, writer; Yvonne Donohoe (The Racer) and Brendan Mullin (Bad Day for the Cut), producers; Steve Lynch (Let Us Prey), composer; Ryan Kernaghan (The Devil’s Doorway), cinematographer; Brian Philip Davis (Pumpgirl), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the sleepy Irish backwater town of Six Mile Hill, known to the world only for the legend that Bram Stoker once spent a night in the local pub, directionless young man Eugene (Rowan) is forced to work for his no-nonsense father Francie (O’Neill) after a personal tragedy. After finding himself on the site of a controversial new road development that threatens to destroy the town’s livelihood, he and his fellow workers tear down a famous cairn that is said to be the final resting place of legendary Irish vampire Abhartach, and soon find themselves fighting for survival against the ferocious being that has been reawakened…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The legend of Abhartach, an Irish vampire said to have inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is given a playfully demented new spin in this frightening, but also rather funny, horror for vampire fans everywhere.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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