Shock, horror. Ireland has a rich horror movie past
Dark Touch is Marina de Van’s Irish-set tale of a telekinetic child and is the latest Irish horror flick to reach our screens in 2013.. Earlier this year, Neil Jordan’s West Cork-shot Byzantium and Ciaran Foy’s Citadel were sophisticated horror flicks that acknowledged the conventions of the tradition while looking intriguingly at unsettling aspects of the modern world.
Byzantium is set in an English seaside resort, while Citadel is set in a blighted urban environment in which deprivation is a ‘cancer’.
