Hailing from Ireland, this fright-filled feature was the main winner at this year's Lisbon Horror Film Festival. This is not a festival for the faint-hearted. , which every year brings the best and most chilling horror cinema from around the world to Lisbon, is a week full of frights of all kinds and for all tastes.
While some might be breathing sighs of relief at the festival's end, there's plenty of cause for celebration the makers of , the winner of its main prize, the Meliès d'Argent, which rewards the best European film and gives access to the Meliès d'Or competition at Sitges. The Irish production from Damian McCarthy is presented as "a delight for those who like jump scares", a film that "crawls up your spine with its silences, shadows and twists". The jury, in awarding the prize, considered to be "an engaging story, told with style, good practical effects and new levels of suspense, realised in a dark and provocative register.
We also loved the director's previous film( and are really looking forward to seeing what new material he chooses in the future," concluded the jury. But Ireland's contribution to this year's choices didn't stop there and the country also brought us , by director Aislinn Clarke. Her feature was less concerned with upfront thrills but more about psychological terror and inner fears.
It's a film focussed on mourning and loneliness, in which the legends and traditions of deep Ireland play a central role. The film has the particularity of being .
