Movie Review: Boys from County Hell (2020)

June 23, 2021 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Movies and tagged Abhartach, Boys from County Hell, Bram Stoker, Chris Baugh, Dracula, Fra Fee, Jack Rowan, John Lynch, Lalor Roddy, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, Nigel O'Neill, vampires | 1 Comment

Directed by Chris Baugh
Starring Jack Rowan, Nigel O’Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, John Lynch, Fra Fee, Morgan C. Jones, Robert Nairne, Lalor Roddy

Creating a vampire movie these days is extremely difficult without treading on the footsteps of the countless titles already in this done-to-death sub-genre. When a filmmaker not only does that, but creates a very entertaining, humorous and still an effective picture, he, along with the cast and crew, need to be applauded. Because of that, I felt I needed to post a review, hoping to draw more people to it.

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Movie Review: Isolation

September 18, 2019 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Movies and tagged Billy O'Brien, Essie Davis, Isolation, John Lynch, Marcel Lures, Ruth Negga, Sean Harris | Leave a comment

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(2005)
Directed by Billy O’Brien
Starring: Essie Davis, Sean Harris, Marcel Lures, Crispin Letts, John Lynch, Ruth Negga

Find this movie. Watch it. Simple as that.

Years ago, while paging through an issue of Fangoria magazine, there was a little spotlight on this movie called Isolation, that they seemed to give a high rating. I didn’t know anything about it, nor did I read any of the review, other than it had something to do with some quarantine on a farm, and figured it might be ‘inspired’ by the 28 Days Later theme. So I put it in my Netflix queue and later discovered just how wrong I was. Continue reading →