Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Boys from County Hell (4 Stars)


This is the 15th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

The film is set in a fictional Irish village called Six Mile Hill. Bram Stoker once visited the village, and it's claimed he found the inspiration for his Dracula novel in a local legend about a monster called Abhartach who's buried in a nearby field. Abhartach drank human blood until he was buried and his resting place was covered with stones.

Two young men walk home through the field after visiting the town's pub, The Stoker. A wild boar attacks one of them, knocking him onto the burial stones. His blood drips onto the stones, waking Abhartach from his sleep. Over the following weeks people in the village begin to bleed spontaneously, and their blood flows from their bodies to Abhartach's grave, making him stronger day by day, until he can finally rise from the grave.

This is the second Irish vampire film in the festival this year. It has comic elements, but it's not as funny as "Let the wrong one in".

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