23 Apr 2021 : News Desk Boys From County Hell Wildcard Distribution and Vertigo Releasing have launched the official trailer for Boys From County Hell, which will open in Irish cinemas this summer.
Just when you thought the vampire film had been drained dry, along comes an unexpected and original spin on the genre from writer/director Chris Baugh, with the follow-up to his acclaimed crime thriller debut
Bad Day For The Cut.
With nods to Ireland’s formidable horror heritage,
Boys From County Hell follows recent Irish folklore horror hits
The Hallow and
The Hole in The Ground, whilst also injecting some surprisingly hysterical moments. It echoes Clive Barker’s Irish-set eighties creature feature
Horror doesn’t come with rules, but it’s fair to say there can be bare minimums. If the monstrous force on the poster is going to be one of the classics, at least make it pop out in a surprising way. If the story is going to be about a certain band of characters facing such a menace, at least make them a little distinct. And if your movie involves some boozy Irish pranksters finding out about a long buried vampire corpse, at least make it a good time. “Boys from County Hell” pushes back on these tried-and-true guidelines, and it’s the kind of Shudder movie of the week that doesn’t give back to its audience, so much as drain them.
Boys from County Hell Finds the Heart in Vampire Comedy Directed by Chris Baugh
Starring Jack Rowan, Nigel O Neill, Fra Fee, John Lynch
Published Apr 22, 2021
What would you do if the man you paid with a bottle of whiskey to guard the construction site your dad put you quasi in charge of turns into a vampire and then has his heart stabbed out by your friend, the girlfriend of your best friend who only three months ago was killed when he was pinned to a pile of rocks covering an ancient vampire s grave by a bull? If you re a character in
The Horrors Of Relocation In BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL
Take away the vampires and gallows humor, and Chris Baugh’s film has something to say.
By Andrew Crump · @agracru · April 22, 2021, 3:13 PM CDT BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL. Progress sounds sweet on paper, but in practice tends to come at a cost. Take the town of Six Mile Hill, where naught happens, naught changes, and the only landmark worth visiting is a stone heap in a field. The heap isn’t just
any heap, though; it’s the grave of Abhartach, an ancient Irish vampire said to have inspired Bram Stoker’s
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