Night People, a new Irish horror sci-fi which was largely filmed in Donegal, is to have its first cinema opening in the county this weekend.
Directed and written by Gerard Lough, the film opens in the Eclipse, Lifford on Friday November 13, with more cinema openings around Ireland planned in the near future.
Lough's feature debut follows two thieves who break into a house with a dark past as part of an insurance scam. With an hour to kill, they decide to tell each other a story . . .
The film stars Michael Parle, Jack Dean Shepherd, Claire Blennerhassett, Sarah Louise Carney, Aidan O'Sullivan and Eoin Leahy. It was recently screened at the Horrorthon festival at the IFI in Dublin.
Lough told TEN that making Night People on a shoestring budget had been quite the learning curve.
"Shooting 70% of your film in rainy nights seemed like a cool idea at the time to a Blade Runner-obsessed filmmaker such as myself, but in practice standing in waste ground at 3.00am is something that would make anyone want to consider an alternative line of work," he laughed.
"Preferably the kind you do indoors... with the central heating switched on."
The director said the fact that Donegal is rarely used for filming gave Night People its own look and atmosphere.
"It also presented a diverse range of locations that included everything from a fort built in the 6th century to a state-of-the-art nightclub," he continued. "I'm proud to say that Night People has no green screen cheats in that department.
"When you see an actor standing at the edge of a cliff that is framed by a lighthouse and a beautiful sunset - it's the real thing."
