We do like a Nick Cage film at the Hothouse and Nick's latest offering Arcadian, which is out in UK cinemas from 14 June, is a real belter, despite a purely limited amount of screentime for our hero. Set in a not so distant post apocalyptic future where humanity has been reduced to a few... Continue Reading →
All You Need is Death (Ireland, 2024)
Perhaps nothing quite evokes a feeling of folk horror so much as folk music, it certainly has in some of the pubs I have been in, however Irish director Paul Duane takes this to a whole new height in his latest movie All You Need is Death. Anna (Simone Collins) and Aleks (Charlie Maher) are... Continue Reading →
Boys From County Hell (2020, Ireland)
Hot on the heels from the release of the excellent werewolf comedy Werewolves Within we have this fabulous piece of black folk horror humour from Ireland in Chris Baugh's Boys From County Hell, which is out now in UK and Irish cinemas. Eugene and his dad contemplate the cairn Photo by Aidan Monaghan There's a... Continue Reading →
The Green Sea (2021, Ireland)
Simone (Katharine Isabelle) , an American former goth metal band leader has retired to rural Ireland as a writer. Following the initial success of her first novel six years ago she is desperately working on the follow up while coping with the recurring memory of past trauma through a fog of vodka and getting shagged... Continue Reading →