Irish Film Institute -International Film Directory

The Cured

David Freyne, 93 minutes, 2017

For six years, a virus has devastated Europe, transforming people into zombie-like monsters. All is lost until a cure is found. The cure, which has a 75% success rate, restores the infected to full physical health, although the cured remember…

The Daisy Chain

Aisling Walsh, 89 minutes, 2008

A psychological horror from director Aisling Walsh, The Daisy Chain is a story of two scarred individuals – a child and a mother – forming a potentially destructive relationship. The mother is Martha (Samantha Morton), a woman feeling the raw…

The Devil’s Doorway

Aislinn Clarke, 76 minutes, 2018

Two priests are sent to a 1960s Magdalen laundry to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a found footage film whose setting adds a level of genuine horror to proceedings.

Double Blind

Ian Hunt-Duffy, 90 minutes, 2023

Seven strangers enrol in an apparently routine drug trial at a pharmaceutical facility, but soon discover an unexpected side effect – they are unable to fall asleep. Concerned for the safety of the patients, the supervising doctor advises the pharmaceutical…

The Eclipse

Conor McPherson, 88 minutes, 2009

Michael (Ciarán Hinds), a widower with two children and a dying father-in-law (Jim Norton), is a volunteer at a literary festival in a picturesque seaside town (Cobh, Co Cork). While chaufering festival guests, he meets gothic novelist Lena Morelle (Iben…

Expulsion

Sinéad Murphy, 10 minutes, 2020

Haunted by visions, a young woman revisits an abusive past seeking to expel inner demons and put an end to her torment. However, she soon finds reality is her true horror and it bares the face of man.

Feed

Marco van Belle, 90 minutes, TBC 2026/7

A group of twenty-something influencers escape to a remote Irish forest for a weekend of luxury and fun. However when they awaken the world’s original vampire from her slumber, they must fight for their lives. World premiere: TBA

Foxes

Lorcan Finnegan, 15 minutes, 2011

Turning Ireland’s housing crash into a gothic horror, Foxes features a couple isolated in a ghost estate. While husband James (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) busies himself at work, wife Ellen (Marie Ruane) finds herself fascinated and even altered by the foxes prowling…

Fréwaka

Aislinn Clarke, 103 minutes, 2024

Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker Shoo (Clare Monnelly) leaves her pregnant girlfriend to care for Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain), a cantankerous old woman who has incarcerated herself in a big house on the edge of a remote…

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