Irish horror film ‘The Hallow’ has been selected to screen at Film4 Frightfest, one of the UK’s most renowned genre film festivals which takes place in London this August.
As previously reported by IFTN, David Keating’s ‘Cherry Tree’ will open the Frightfest, becoming the first Irish film ever to do so. Other Irish horrors to have screened at the festival in the past number of years include ‘Dead Meat’, ‘Isolation’, ‘Dorothy Mills’, ‘Dark Touch’ and ‘The Canal’.
Written and directed by 2011 Screen International Star of Tomorrow Corin Hardy, ‘The Hallow’ tells the story of a London-based conservationist who is sent to Ireland to survey an area of ancient forest believed by the superstitious locals to be hallowed ground and unwittingly disturbs a horde of terrifying beings and must fight to protect his family. Windmill Lane was across picture edit on the film, while Ardmore Sound was across sound post.
Co-produced by Fantastic Films with funding from the Irish Film Board, ‘The Hallow’ made its’ world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and earned positive reviews from Screen International and Variety with The Hollywood Reporter writing that the film would have the audience “clamouring for a sequel”.
Film4 Frightfest 2015 takes place in London’s West End at the Vue, Leicester Square, between August 27th and 31st.
