Horror Movies

Death trip - filmmaker Paul Duane on his Irish folk horror movie

Filmmaker and occasional RTÉ Culture contributor Paul Duane introduces his hew folk horror movie All You Need Is Death, which hits Irish cinemas this weekend.

The new classic horror films to watch on Halloween night

Halloween, The Shining, Scream, The Exorcist… all classics. But what are the new classics from the past decade that can proudly sit by those mentioned above?

Six Irish horror films worth checking out

Folk horror for beginners: Kier-La Janisse on her new documentary

IFI Horrorthon festival promises to be a scream

Something in The Fog - a horror classic revisited, 40 years on

It was the first long weekend of the year in our mobile home. Come rain or shine you'd always find me on the beach. I love the sea, that salty sense of freedom it always brings me. Something was different this time...

Inside Deathcember - 'tis the season to be scary

Irish actor Johnny Vivash writes for Culture about his new movie Deathcember, 'a cinematic Advent calendar of horror' consisting of 24 short films by 24 international directors, which receives its world premiere at this year's IFI Horrorthon Festival.

Why John Carpenter is the ultimate Master Of Horror

In 1961, Howard Ralph Carpenter, a Kentuckian music professor, sat his son down with a pair of bongos and taught him a simple 5-4 beat exercise to practice with...

Night Of The Living Dead at 50 - the film that refuses to die

For everything, there is a season. But there's just no stopping zombies. Unless you shoot them in the head, of course. Everybody knows that. And I mean everybody.

Is The Devil's Doorway the scariest Irish movie ever?

Scary nuns are officially the new scary clowns.