The People's Haunted House 3 -October 2025
- The Peoples' Picturehouse Cork
- Nov 7
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 9
This October we witnessed a truly horrifying selection of films that thrilled, shocked and excited one of the largest crowds we've ever had at the People's Picturehouse!
We also witnessed a huge selction of ghoulishly good costumes and incredible transformations.
Congratulations to all of the fantastic filmmakers who screened their work on the night! 🎬
Congratulations also to the winners of the costume competition!
Read on for info on those films screened on the night!
If You Give a Spirit a Cookie / Linnea Dugan
Cast & Crew
Writer and Director: Linnea Dugan
Producer: Sophie Jones
Starring: Brendan O' Sullivan, Jade Sinnott, Micheal Sheehan
Camera: Shane Moore and Ross Tobin
Sound: Seán Lennox & Kuba Nowaczyk
Production Design: Ella O'Leary & Mia Harte
Gaffer: Kuba Nowaczyk
Editor: Kyra Owers
Music: Gabriel Falvey
A young college student craving a delicious dessert, accidentally summons two spirits who haunt her. How will she ever make it out… alive and unharmed ??
you're not perfect
Cast & Crew
Director & Producer: Mary O' Leary
An intense and uncanny perspective of societal expectations from birth.
The Things That Lie Within/ Shannon Bowman
Cast & Crew
Director/Producer: Shannon Bowman
A girl battles her demons in an empty warehouse.
Inheritance/Steve Broekhuizen
Cast & Crew
Director/ Producer: Steve Broekhuizen
Starring: David Gould and Kathie Richardson
A detective enters a killer’s stage.
Are You Still Watching? / Emma Traynor
Cast & Crew
Written and Directed by Emma Traynor
Starring Katelyn Leahy, Abbie O' Brien and Jack O' Mahony
Sienna finds herself stuck in a surreal tug of war between the screen and reality.
The Cobweb/ David Twomey
Cast & Crew
Director: David Twomey
Cast: Olivia Mathews, Michael de Brun, David Gould, Lisa Marie Murphy and Liam O Caoimh
Her new home hides an old terror.
Roulette Prospero/Alexandr Judin
Cast & Crew
Created by Alexandr Judin
Alter/ Tereza Feixova
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Tereza Feixova
A 30 second short film exploring the theme of identity.
Like Me / Mark Delaney
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Mark Delaney
"Kill or be killed. Are you a monster like me?"
Mourning Wood/ TNTD
Cast & Crew
Namejs Balodis
Thomas Maguire
David Brosnan
Thomas Maguire
When Drew and his friends take a night stop on the way to a music festival, Draw awakens to find things have taken a sinister turn.
The Knock/ Cal Moloney
Cast & Crew
Written & Directed by Cal Moloney
“Not every door should be opened” When James hears one knock on his door one simple answer will bring multiple consequences Will you answer the door?"
Untitled Spooky Clown in a Car Park Movie/ Doreen Manning
Cast & Crew
Written and Directed by Doreen Manning
Starring Shane Kelleher and David McSweeney
It's exactly what you think it is.
Silhouette Selector / Sarah Corcoran
Cast & Crew
Directed and Shot by Sarah Corcoran
Composed and Produced by Dan Walsh
seemingly random objects and shape shifting entities converge, to symbolise the process of inner reflection and illumination of the shadow self. We journey through the painful dissolution of self and rebirth which take place through metamorphosis.
Awaken Episode 1/ Robert Delaney
Cast & Crew
Directed by Robert Delaney
A man awakens in search of his wife, will he survive?
Robert Delaney - Director of Awaken