Irish Horror
by Gymnopedies | created - 16 Apr 2018 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicThese are all the Irish horror movies I have seen.
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1. Dead Meat (2004)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
An infection spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, which causes the dead to rise and feed on the living.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Marian Araujo, David Muyllaert, Eoin Whelan, David Ryan
Votes: 2,338
2. From the Dark (2014)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a creature who only attacks at night.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Niamh Algar, Stephen Cromwell, Ged Murray, Gerry O'Brien
Votes: 3,536
3. Wake Wood (2009)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Director: David Keating | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Ella Connolly
Votes: 8,826
4. The Daisy Chain (2008)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Mhairi Anderson, David Bradley
Votes: 1,608
5. Sea Fever (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Director: Neasa Hardiman | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Dag Malmberg, Jack Hickey, Olwen Fouéré
Votes: 14,110
6. An Irish Exorcism (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Horror
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Director: Eric Courtney | Stars: Paddy C. Courtney, Anna Davis, Brian Fortune, Elaine Hearty
Votes: 130
7. Isolation (2005)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Director: Billy O'Brien | Stars: John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Iures
Votes: 7,997
8. Grabbers (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle
Votes: 19,529
9. Dark Touch (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
In a remote Irish village, police are called to the scene of a bloody massacre, but they ignore the lone survivor's claim that the house was responsible for the carnage that killed her parents and brother.
Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Pádraic Delaney, Charlotte Flyvholm
Votes: 4,436
10. You Are Not My Mother (2021)
93 min | Drama, Horror
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
Director: Kate Dolan | Stars: Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Ingrid Craigie, Jordanne Jones
Votes: 5,872
11. Double Blind (2023)
90 min | Horror, Thriller
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Director: Ian Hunt-Duffy | Stars: Millie Brady, Pollyanna McIntosh, Akshay Kumar, Diarmuid Noyes
Votes: 2,811
12. The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer. A former detective is hired to investigate.
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Arthur O'Sullivan
Votes: 1,029
13. House of the Damned (1996 TV Movie)
R | 83 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Will and Maura decide to come to Ireland with their daughter and live on Maura's ancestral estate. But soon weird happenings around the house lead a local priest to confess that Maura's ancestors practiced black magic.
Director: Scott P. Levy | Stars: Alexandra Paul, Greg Evigan, Briana Evigan, Eamonn Draper
Votes: 477
14. Unwelcome (2022)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror
Married couple Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent and murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Kristian Nairn
Votes: 6,123
15. Hillwalkers (2022)
TV-MA | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
When hikers trespass onto private land, an altercation with the landowner descends into violence.
Director: Tom Cosgrove | Stars: Mark Agar, Elise Brennan, Michael Cloke, Shane Connellan
Votes: 491
16. Boys from County Hell (2020)
88 min | Comedy, Horror
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering father and son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Director: Chris Baugh | Stars: Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough
Votes: 4,991
17. Dementia 13 (1963)
Unrated | 75 min | Horror, Thriller
A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, Mary Mitchel
Votes: 8,996
18. Stitches (I) (2012)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
A clown comes back from the dead to haunt those who took his life during a fatal party mishap.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Eoghan McQuinn, Gemma-Leah Devereux
Votes: 10,502
19. Shrooms (2007)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen
Votes: 17,678 | Gross: $0.00M
20. The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
Director: Aislinn Clarke | Stars: Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, Lauren Coe
Votes: 4,022
21. Let the Wrong One In (2021)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A young supermarket worker discovers that his older brother is a vampire and must choose whether to help him or slay him.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Karl Rice, Eoin Duffy, Anthony Head, David Pearse
Votes: 1,301
22. The Cured (2017)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. Society discriminates against the once-infected zombies, as do their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government interference.
Director: David Freyne | Stars: Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham
Votes: 9,398 | Gross: $0.02M
23. Citadel (I) (2012)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson
Votes: 7,336
24. Caveat (2020)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
Director: Damian Mc Carthy | Stars: Ben Caplan, Johnny French, Leila Sykes, Inma Pavon
Votes: 6,985
25. The Cellar (2022)
94 min | Horror, Mystery
Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken, Abby Fitz, Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady
Votes: 7,742
26. The Lodgers (2017)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel and Edwards to their home, in punishment for their ancestors' sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house.
Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley
Votes: 9,653
27. The Eclipse (2009)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
Director: Conor McPherson | Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn, Billy Roche
Votes: 3,133 | Gross: $0.13M
28. The Canal (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A film archivist finds his sanity crumbling after he is given an old 16mm film reel with footage from a horrific murder that occurred in the early 1900's.
Director: Ivan Kavanagh | Stars: Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hannah Hoekstra, Kelly Byrne
Votes: 14,874
29. In Fear (I) (2013)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive.
Director: Jeremy Lovering | Stars: Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert, Allen Leech
Votes: 10,153
30. Rawhead Rex (1986)
R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
An ancient creature called Rawhead is awakened from its slumber near an Irish village and goes on a rampage killing anyone in sight.
Director: George Pavlou | Stars: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O'Conor, Cora Venus Lunny
Votes: 6,629
31. Portrait of a Zombie (2012)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
When son, Billy, becomes a zombie the family chooses to take care of him in the home much to the chagrin of the neighbors and the local crime boss.
Director: Bing Bailey | Stars: Patrick Murphy, Geraldine McAlinden, Rory Mullen, Paul O'Bryan
Votes: 401
32. Cherry Tree (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery
A 15-year-old makes a pact with a witches’ coven to save her father’s life.
Director: David Keating | Stars: Anna Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine, Elva Trill
Votes: 1,130
33. The Hallow (2015)
Not Rated | 97 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Director: Corin Hardy | Stars: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Michael Smiley
Votes: 18,544 | Gross: $0.01M
34. Nails (I) (2017)
85 min | Horror, Mystery
Recovering after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
Director: Dennis Bartok | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Steve Wall, Leah McNamara, Ross Noble
Votes: 2,787
35. Extra Ordinary (2019)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.
Directors: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman | Stars: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty
Votes: 11,547
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