Ireland - Horror & Suspense Movies Around the Globe
by Encyclopedia_of_Horror | created - 13 Aug 2019 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicA series of lists chronicling horror and suspense releases from various countries, brought to you by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series.
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1. Wake Wood (2009)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Director: David Keating | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Ella Connolly
Votes: 8,827
2. Dead Meat (2004)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
An infection spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, which causes the dead to rise and feed on the living.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Marian Araujo, David Muyllaert, Eoin Whelan, David Ryan
Votes: 2,338
3. Stitches (I) (2012)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
A clown comes back from the dead to haunt those who took his life during a fatal party mishap.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Eoghan McQuinn, Gemma-Leah Devereux
Votes: 10,503
4. Traders (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller
What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
Directors: Rachael Moriarty, Peter Murphy | Stars: Killian Scott, John Bradley, Nika McGuigan, Peter O'Meara
Votes: 2,514
5. A Dark Song (2016)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Director: Liam Gavin | Stars: Steve Oram, Catherine Walker, Susan Loughnane, Mark Huberman
Votes: 21,432
6. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, David Crowley
Votes: 22,386 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Nails (I) (2017)
85 min | Horror, Mystery
Recovering after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
Director: Dennis Bartok | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Steve Wall, Leah McNamara, Ross Noble
Votes: 2,787
8. The Lobster (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman
Votes: 296,965 | Gross: $8.70M
9. Citadel (I) (2012)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson
Votes: 7,336
10. Shrooms (2007)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen
Votes: 17,679 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Isolation (2005)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Director: Billy O'Brien | Stars: John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Iures
Votes: 8,000
12. Dorothy Mills (2008)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychiatrist is assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan
Votes: 5,987
13. Botched (I) (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Thriller
During a heist in Russia, a professional thief finds himself dealing with serial killers, insane hostages, double-crossing psycho Russian hardmen and the real possibility of a horrible death.
Director: Kit Ryan | Stars: David Heap, Alan Smyth, Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee
Votes: 6,664
14. The Canal (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A film archivist finds his sanity crumbling after he is given an old 16mm film reel with footage from a horrific murder that occurred in the early 1900's.
Director: Ivan Kavanagh | Stars: Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hannah Hoekstra, Kelly Byrne
Votes: 14,874
15. Dark Light (2000 Video)
67 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Andrew Harrison | Stars: Paul Barton, Darryl Sloan, Keith Fairgrieve, Andrew Harrison
Votes: 10
16. From the Dark (2014)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
A couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a creature who only attacks at night.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Niamh Algar, Stephen Cromwell, Ged Murray, Gerry O'Brien
Votes: 3,536
17. Grabbers (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle
Votes: 19,530
18. Spiderhole (2010)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
They say squatting is dead - a term that takes on a sinister double meaning when four homeless art students decide to take up residence in an abandoned London House where a hidden terror lurks.
Director: Daniel Simpson | Stars: Amy Noble, Emma Griffiths Malin, George Maguire, John E. Regan
Votes: 1,101
19. Sacrifice (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After digging up a bizarrely mutilated corpse on her land, physician Tora Hamilton uncovers a lethal connection to ancient pagan rituals.
Director: Peter A. Dowling | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves, Ian McElhinney, Joanne Crawford
Votes: 4,829
20. Boy Eats Girl (2005)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.
Director: Stephen Bradley | Stars: Samantha Mumba, David Leon, Tadhg Murphy, Laurence Kinlan
Votes: 4,009
21. The Lodgers (2017)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel and Edwards to their home, in punishment for their ancestors' sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house.
Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley
Votes: 9,652
22. Invoked (2015)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of young people went on a abandoned hostel in Sligo, Ireland. After they play a really creepy game, all of them disappear.
Directors: Humberto Rosa, Thairon Mendes | Stars: Ciara Rose Burke, Lyn Lorken, Patrick Murphy, Craig Grainger
Votes: 779
23. The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann (2012)
90 min | Horror
Teenager Isabel Mann is seduced by a violent sect of day-walking vampires. Her classmates start to go missing, attracting two detectives.Things get weird as the disturbed teenager kills at ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Figgis | Stars: Ellen Mullen, Neill Fleming, Matthew Toman, Darren Travers
Votes: 136
24. The Cured (2017)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. Society discriminates against the once-infected zombies, as do their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government interference.
Director: David Freyne | Stars: Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham
Votes: 9,400 | Gross: $0.02M
25. Cherry Tree (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery
A 15-year-old makes a pact with a witches’ coven to save her father’s life.
Director: David Keating | Stars: Anna Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine, Elva Trill
Votes: 1,130
26. The Daisy Chain (2008)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Mhairi Anderson, David Bradley
Votes: 1,608
27. Dark Touch (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
In a remote Irish village, police are called to the scene of a bloody massacre, but they ignore the lone survivor's claim that the house was responsible for the carnage that killed her parents and brother.
Director: Marina de Van | Stars: Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Pádraic Delaney, Charlotte Flyvholm
Votes: 4,436
28. Vivarium (2019)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.
Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Imogen Poots, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann, Jesse Eisenberg
Votes: 74,054
29. Sea Fever (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Director: Neasa Hardiman | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Dag Malmberg, Jack Hickey, Olwen Fouéré
Votes: 14,113
30. Foxes (2011)
16 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A young couple trapped in a remote neighborhood are beckoned by shrieking foxes into their twilight world.
Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Marie Ruane, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Karen Griffin
Votes: 597
31. Catcalls (2017)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Horror
A man cruises around late at night looking for something. He pulls in to ask two young girls for directions - only to flash them to get a cheap thrill. Unfortunately, he has picked the ... See full summary »
Director: Kate Dolan | Stars: Martin O'Sullivan, Cesca Saunders, Edel Murphy, Sarah Kinlen
Votes: 308
32. Brackenmore (2016)
72 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The close-knit community of Brackenmore is harboring a secret. After the untimely death of an uncle she never knew she had, Kate (Sophie Hopkins) is forced to return to her ancestral home, ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Kemble, J.P. Davidson | Stars: Sophie Hopkins, Joe Kennard, Bertie Brosnan, Elaine Kennedy
Votes: 385
33. Self-Assembly (2014)
12 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
In a self-assembly cabinet, bereaved parents find a monstrous substitute for their dead son.
Director: Ray Sullivan | Stars: Darryl Kinsella, Amy Kirwan, Ruben Kenny, Bobby McGlynn
Votes: 174
34. The Other Lamb (2019)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough, Ailbhe Cowley
Votes: 5,548
35. The Braineater (2001)
11 min | Comedy, Horror, Short
An under twelves hurling team, led by Coach Cathal, get lost while traveling to an away game. They stop to get their bearings and encounter The Braineater.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Kenny Reynolds, Nicky Hewitt, Gavin Lacey, Eoin Whelan
Votes: 126
36. Midnight Man (2013)
89 min | Horror
When an innocent girl summons the mythical Midnight Man for a night of thrills, she opens the door to terrifying supernatural forces that threaten to destroy her...
Director: Rob Kennedy | Stars: Philippa Carson, Dorothy Clements, Rachel Gleeson, Stuart Hart
Votes: 65
37. Extra Ordinary (2019)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.
Directors: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman | Stars: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty
Votes: 11,549
38. Killer Night Shift (V) (2018)
81 min | Horror, Thriller
Amy begins her first night shift in a hotel with a murderous past. Witnessing terrifying events and trapped within a loop, Amy must find a way to escape the flesh obsessed murderer and save residents of the hotel.
Director: Stephen Hall | Stars: Ashleigh Dorrell, Matthew O'Brien, Angel Hannigan, Nigel Mercier
Votes: 724
39. Demon Hunter (2016)
TV-MA | 85 min | Action, Horror
Detective Ray Beckett seeks the aid of homicide suspect, Taryn Barker, in rescuing his daughter from a demonic force.
Director: Zoe Kavanagh | Stars: Niamh Hogan, Alan Talbot, Sarah Tapes Jenkinson, Kevin O'Malley
Votes: 474
40. Without Name (2016)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.
Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Alan McKenna, Niamh Algar, James Browne, Olga Wehrly
Votes: 1,290
41. The Faeries of Blackheath Woods (2006)
4 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Something peculiar happened that day. Curious Melissa was enchanted by some real Faeries. Ignoring her Mother she followed them down into Blackheath Woods... Melissa never came back.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Katie Keogh, Orla O'Rourke, Bernard Kelleghan
Votes: 186
42. Boys from County Hell (2020)
88 min | Comedy, Horror
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering father and son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Director: Chris Baugh | Stars: Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough
Votes: 4,996
43. Sinners (2013)
Short, Horror
Director: Stephen Hall | Stars: Pius McGrath, Nigel Mercier, Zeb Moore, Joanne Ryan
Votes: 5
44. Killers Within (2018)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Crime, Horror
After their son is kidnapped and held for a ransom, a police officer and her ex-husband capture a banker's family to get the needed money.
Directors: Paul Bushe, Brian O'Neill | Stars: Sue Walsh, Jeff Doyle, Johnny Elliott, Andrew Murray
Votes: 445
45. You Are Not My Mother (2021)
93 min | Drama, Horror
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
Director: Kate Dolan | Stars: Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Ingrid Craigie, Jordanne Jones
Votes: 5,874
46. Let the Wrong One In (2021)
100 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A young supermarket worker discovers that his older brother is a vampire and must choose whether to help him or slay him.
Director: Conor McMahon | Stars: Karl Rice, Eoin Duffy, Anthony Head, David Pearse
Votes: 1,301
47. The Cellar (2022)
94 min | Horror, Mystery
Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house. She soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken, Abby Fitz, Dylan Fitzmaurice Brady
Votes: 7,746
48. The Farm (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Romance
Mickey and Juliet, a young couple on the run from a vicious gang of drug dealers arrive at a deserted farm in the countryside near Cork, aiming to flee the country by ferry the following ... See full summary »
Director: Dáire McNab | Stars: Louise Cargin, Phyllis Carthy, Robert D. Donohoe, Neill Fleming
Votes: 43
49. The Winter Lake (2020)
TV-MA | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When Holly's dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.
Director: Phil Sheerin | Stars: Anson Boon, Charlie Murphy, Emma Mackey, Michael McElhatton
Votes: 1,265
50. Hexing (2017)
80 min | Horror
When Hannah returns home to her estranged Father to piece together the circumstances of her Mother's death, she discovers an ancient occult tool Yantra, used by Tantriks in India. Hannah then uncovers a deadly curse from the past.
Director: Christophe Lenoir | Stars: Dominique Swain, Ketan Anand, Emma Eliza Regan, Adam Weafer
Votes: 131
51. Dead Bodies (2003)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy.
Director: Robert Quinn | Stars: Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy
Votes: 1,085
52. The Ten Steps (2004)
10 min | Horror, Short
Set in Ireland, a family moves to a new city neighborhood, taking residence in a large, old house that is rumored to have a dodgy past. Their young daughter Katie is caught in a power ... See full summary »
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Jill Harding, William O'Sullivan, Paula Lee, Gerard Lee
Votes: 485
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