Interview With The Vampire to Oddity: 10 Irish horror films for Halloween 

Neil Jordan had Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in his cast in 1994, but it's the recent crop of indie horrors that has marked Ireland as a real force in the genre 
Interview With The Vampire to Oddity: 10 Irish horror films for Halloween 

Clockwise from left: Vivarium, Interview with the Vampire and Oddity feature among our Halloween films from Ireland

Irish filmmakers have long had a knack for delivering frights in the most inventive of ways. In recent years, a new wave of scary movie storytellers has branched out, unsettling us - and making waves internationally - through well-placed shocks, references to our ghostly past and the Irish language. Among them is a Cork filmmaker credited with making two of the best-reviewed horror films of recent years. As Halloween approaches, we look at some of the strongest new Irish horror and psychological-thriller filmmakers, where audiences can see them, and throwback to some of those who brought earlier classics.

Interview With the Vampire (1994, Netflix) 

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