Citadel - New Irish Horror Movie

NunianVonFuch

Ciaran Foy's new movie, just premièred at the SXSW festival and getting some great reviews so far, especially in Variety. Been along time since there's been a decent Irish horror film (has there ever been one?) so hopefully this'll get a release on these shores. The guy playing the dad looks particularly striking in the trailer below. Based on that and Foy's previous short I'm really looking forward to this!

Plot: An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children.

Variety Review:
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947253/

Aintitcool:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/54285

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tadj21oVNo

Previous short by same director:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_EyPVV-WxA

Turbine

What constitutes a film being 'Irish'? Apart from the Director being Irish and part of the movie being filmed in Ireland, what's Irish about it? All the characters are clearly British.

Would be like if The Wind That Shakes The Barley was partly filmed in England, and then calling it a British film.

Looks decent anyway but seems to be just another rehash of 28 Days Later.

Turbine

Turbine wrote: »

What constitutes a film being 'Irish'? Apart from the Director being Irish and part of the movie being filmed in Ireland, what's Irish about it? All the characters are clearly British.

Would be like if The Wind That Shakes The Barley was partly filmed in England, and then calling it a British film.

Looks decent anyway but seems to be just another rehash of 28 Days Later.

But the Wind that Shakes the Barley is an English film.

This looks decent enough, a mix between the underrated Heartless and Eden Lake.

NunianVonFuch

Turbine wrote: »

What constitutes a film being 'Irish'? Apart from the Director being Irish and part of the movie being filmed in Ireland, what's Irish about it? All the characters are clearly British.

Would be like if The Wind That Shakes The Barley was partly filmed in England, and then calling it a British film.

The director and writer are Irish (and the same person). It was filmed in Ireland and financed by the Irish Film Board and Blinder Films (ie). The lead actress is Irish and has appeared in numerous Irish dramas. Clicking on the Cast & Crew link on imdb shows a mostly Irish crew. That's enough for me to call it an Irish film.

However it was also partly filmed in Scotland and has a Welsh and Scottish actor in it if you'd prefer to call it a Celtic film.

JP Liz V1

Is this getting a general release here now?

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Is this getting a general release here now?

Opening here this weekend. It's been on the US Netflix for the past number of months so I'd say that most people who wanted to see it have done so already.

Galvasean

I had aticket for this at the Galway Film Fleadh but missed it due to unforeseen circumstances...
So yeah, quite looking forward to it.

Chris_Heilong

one of my work mates worked on a shot in the film(digital matte painting) The film its self was alright actually

CriticofScience

NunianVonFuch wrote: »

The director and writer are Irish (and the same person). It was filmed in Ireland and financed by the Irish Film Board and Blinder Films (ie). The lead actress is Irish and has appeared in numerous Irish dramas. Clicking on the Cast & Crew link on imdb shows a mostly Irish crew. That's enough for me to call it an Irish film.

However it was also partly filmed in Scotland and has a Welsh and Scottish actor in it if you'd prefer to call it a Celtic film.

I would have said it was a British/Irish co-production. But I could be wrong.

jimmymallet

More of a Scottish movie with the accents and location?