October 2023: The People's Haunted House

On the 25th of October, we hosted The People's HAUNTED House. Like the regular Picturehouse, but spookier! We had prizes for best costume from Poachers and The Cork International Film Festival, and a truly bone-chilling selection of shorts. Where the films are not available online, we suggest getting into contact with the creators if you want to view them.

The Dragon of Shandon / Dervla Baker, Lawrence Cook, Elena Binning, Aoibh Foynes Heaphy & Avleen Aanand

Cast & Crew

Dervla Baker, Lawrence Cook, Elena Binning, Aoibh Foynes Heaphy & Avleen Aanand

The Dragon of Shandon is a self-reflexive documentary that offers an insight into the work and talent behind the annual Halloween-themed parade. A documentary by students of the Film and Screen Media MA in UCC, this film charts the various groups and communities that come together annually to work on the parade. It also spotlights the challenges and obstacles the participants face in putting it all the pieces together, as well as the anticipation in the weeks leading up to the event. With an emphasis on community and the importance of art and creative expression, The Dragon of Shandon serves as a celebration of one of Cork’s most beloved parades and the wonderfully creative people behind it.

The Child Killer / Adam Barry Murphy

Cast & Crew

Directed by Adam Barry-Murphy

A killer, short in stature, breaks into a woman's home with murder on their mind...

Lucid / Ronan Scuffins

Cast & Crew

Crew

- Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor - Ronin Scuffins

- Production Designer, Editor -Aoibh Buchanan

- Producer, Cinematography - Aoibhinn Flatley

- Sound, Editor - Sarah Louise Bourke

Cast

- Lilith - Ciara Geaney

- Stalker - Peter Ruby

- May - Sarah Louise Bourke

Lucid tells the story of an isolated college student trying to escape her mundane life through lucid dreaming until she comes to find avoiding reality has consequences.

Siege of Paris / Darren O'Mahony & Sinead O'Riordan

Cast & Crew

Written & Directed by Darren O'Mahony

Eivor Sinead O'Riordan

Captain Johnny Elliot

Svend Eugene D'Arcy

Halfdan Ryan O'Connor

Sigridur Claire Loy

Frankish soldier 1 Liam Og Griffin

Frankish soldier 2 Derek D'Arcy

Frankish soldier 3 Colm O'Brien

Frankish soldier 4 Martin O'Neill

Frankish soldier 5 Liam Cremins

Frankish soldier 6 Sean O Brien

Frankish soldier 7 Luke Curtin

Frankish soldier 8 Paul O'Dea

Frankish soldier 9 Gabriel Alvarez

Viking 1 Sean Russell

Viking 2 Michael Flynn

Viking 3 Nik Orlov

Viking 4 Daniel Slattery

Viking 5 Philip Flynn

Viking 6 Martin O'Neill

Produced by Darren O'Mahony

Sinead O'Riordan

Assistant Director Noel Aungier

Cinematographer Ignas Laugalis

Assistant Camera James Marnell

Assistant Lighting Rob O'Halloran

Sound Recordist Alex O Brien

Production Manager Rob Noonan

Stunt Co-ordinator Liam Og Griffin

Art Director Raff Muracca

Ass. Art Director Kate Meghan

Costuming & Props Darren O'Mahony

Raff Muracca

Victoria Hofferson

Team Emerald Cosplay

Makeup Artist Julie Caulfield

Production Assistant Ian Walsh

Production Assistant Christopher Lyons

BTS Video Gabriel Alvarez

BTS photo Sara Pozzerle

Post Production audio by Half Life Studio

Edited by Paul Bushe

VFX by Paul Bushe

Gabriel Alvarez

Bryan Edwards

Darren O'Mahony

Additional Content shot by Barra Vernon

Drone Footage by Brian Fox

Stock Footage licensed via Envato Elements

Music licensed via Soundstripe.com and Artlist.io

Special thanks to Ubisoft Entertainment, Shannon Heritage, Waterford Treasures, Waterford County Council,

Magnus Sanford, Shauna Jones, Dom Voigt, Nicole Hughes, Conor Barron, Eoghan Hand, Áine Whelan, Conor Nolan

A Dare Media Productions & Orion Productions film.

Shot on location at Craggaunowen Castle and Waterford Treasures

Shot in a single day at Cragguanowen Heritage Park, Co. Clare, Ireland, Siege of Paris is a short no-budget fan film that acts as an unofficial prequel to Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Siege of Paris DLC.

War is a fire that just needs a spark. It's 885 AD and the kingdoms of Francia have been united for the first time in a century. Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne currently wages a slow war against the Viking settlers in Francia. If he is not stopped, soon he will turn his eyes to England. Legendary Viking clan chief Eivor Varrinsdottir has been sent for in the hopes she can help the settlers fight back and protect their people.

DOOM / Zootghost

Animated by @Zootghost a collaboration featuring characters by @RussellTaysom + @iamuglypeople + @Ketnipz

The Leftovers / Michael Fitzgerald, Arcadie Fihy & Conor Crowley

Cast & Crew

All roles undertaken by Conor Crowley, Micheál Fitzgerald and Arcadie Fihey.

Stuck on an island, three young people must deal with the fact that they may not be alone.

Caroline / Andrew Wrenard

La Propuesta / Alexis Cifuentes

Cast & Crew

Directed by Alexis Cifuentes

Starring: Catalina Tort, Raquel Border & Alberto Amayuelas

A and B have just met through a dating app. Both of them, without knowing it and looking for it, have the same question: What does it feel like to kill someone? Without further ado, they will go in search of the answer to this proposition that A makes to B.

Hysterics / Pia Fitzgerald

Cast & Crew

Writer - Pia Roycroft, Director - Pia Roycroft & Farrah Kelly, Actors - Gemma Malone, Voiceover - Andrew "Wrenard" Tobin

Sometimes not seeing blood is scarier than seeing it. This is true for those who every month have to ask themselves the age-old question "am I late?". Always with the hysterics.

Red Raw Dead Bones / Bjornism

Bjorn

Blood of the Woods / Emily Murray

Cast & Crew

Starring

Emmet Byrne

Cáit Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh

Caoimhe Mulcahy

Kenny Gaughan

Julia Puchovska

Sorrel Lambton

Tony Walsh

Directed by Emily Murray

Written and Visual Effects by Jamie Hooper

Director of Photography Robin Guiton

Sound and Music by Dónal Kennedy

Production Manager & Makeup – Jane Quigley

Monster Design by Dylan O’Connor and Anthony Hodder

Made as Part of the OFFline 57 Hour Challenge

An inept director puts the crew of his low-budget horror “Blood of the Woods” through hell on-set… but there’s something far worse waiting in the woods.

Dare / George Lynch

Cast & Crew

Written, Directed, Shot and Edited by George Lynch. Cast: Frédéric Mauguen and Gavin O'Sullivan

What looks to be the end of a horrifying murder straight out of a slasher, we witness the events playback in reverse to what caused this event.

Mother Father Monster / Seán Breathnach

Cast & Crew

Cast and crew details:

Written and directed by Seán Breathnach

Starring Irene Kelleher, Mark Lawrence & Lauren Pigeon

Cinematography: Páraic English

Edited by: Cashell Horgan

Soundtrack: Pipe's Not Dead

Makeup: Sonia Tahraoui

Supported by: Offaly Arts

Social media addresses: irishhorror.com

A man working as a butler in an old castle has been warned against entering a particular room, no matter what he sees or hears. What is it that Lady Charleville is hiding?

Account no. 994 / Laurie Shaw

Cast & Crew

Directed and edited by Laurie Shaw.

Starring Arthur Pawsey as Retracting Platyhelminth and Kim Crowley as Holder Of The Mirror.

Social Media 

@laurie_shaw__

How to Rob a Witch / Liam Fahy

Cast & Crew

Liam Fahy - Director + Writer + Producer + Lead Animator + Compositing, Callum Nolan - Lead Animator, Emma Murphy - Additional Animation, Sinead Nolan - Additional Animation, Kaj Sjöstrand - Additional Animation, Cai Sanchez - Additional Animation, Bryan Jardim Fleming - Credit Music + Sound Mixing, Danny Sykes - Sound Effects + Mixing, Evija Velpa - Compositing + Background Design, Eimhin McNamara - Compositing, Shauna O'Reilly - Background Design

Why wish for riches when you can rob witches? A brother and sister rob an elderly witch living beneath a wishing well deep in the woods. Deep in the woods Martin and Maeve find a witching well marked on their map. After finding the secret key stone that opens a hole in the bottom, Martin lowers Maeve down in the well’s pail into the snoring Witch’s cozy underground dwelling. After finding the Witch’s jar of collected wishing coins and her wand, the not-so-innocent Maeve begins terrorising the kind Witch and her old cat. After Maeve escapes back to the surface the gentle Witch comforts her distraught pet...just before Maeve uses her wand to cave the roof in on them. With their pockets filled, they set off for the next home on their map.