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Grabbers (15A) sounds like a bad Paddy Irishman joke, but Jon Wright’s offbeat tale of a remote Irish island besieged by alien invaders that can only be repulsed by copious amounts of booze is in fact a nifty variation on the B-movie horror flick.

Garda Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley) is a little too uptight for her own good when she arrives for a two-week stint on Erin Island. The fact that she doesn’t take a drink does not endear her to the locals, and causes friction with Garda Ciarán O’Shea (Richard Coyle), who seems unable to function without booze in his system.

When the island is attacked by aliens, however, the demon drink emerges as the islanders’ saviour — alcohol, logically enough, is a lethal poison to the squid-like creatures.