Kate Dolan’s directorial feature debut takes on the task of weaving folklore about changelings with familial struggles. In YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER horror is reframed within the confines of a quaint Irish home where terror lies within the shocking transformation Char (Hazel Doupe) witnesses in her mother Angela (Carolyn Bracken).
New Irish horror film BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL is to open across Northern Irish cinemas on 6 August. The film is Chris Baugh and Brendan Mullins second feature film following Bad Day for the Cut in 2017. The film stars Jack Rowan (Peaky Blinders), Nigel O’Neill, Louisa Harland (Derry Girls), Fra Fee (Les Misérables) and John Lynch (The Banishing, Isolation).
Charming is the right word to use, mostly because it’s Irish; fans of Edgar Wright’s SHAUN OF THE DEAD will feel right at home. Here, though, BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL’s comedy mostly comes from deadpan realism—from vampire-zombies who emerge and go for the kill, and from living characters yelling expletives who spend most of the 90 minutes fleeing chaos and bickering.