THE HALLOW (2015)

UK-Ireland. Direction: Corin Hardy. Production: Joe Neurater, Felipe Marino / Occupant Entertainment. Screenplay: Corin Hardy, Felipe Marino. Photography: Martijn van Broekhuizen. Music: James Gosling. Edition: Nick Emerson. Cast: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Michael Smiley, Gary Lydon. Running time: 95 min

LANGUAGE: English / SUBTITLES: Spanish

Before proceeding, a sneaky snippet to delight unredeemed encyclopaedia boffins: one of the screenwriters of this nightmare taking place in the leafy Irish woods providing a home to nameless monsters is Felipe Marino, a being with a rather unusual penchant for signing his works as... Rose or Olga Barreneche! Pleased to meet you, Felipe/Rose/Olga. It's helmed by someone named Star of Tomorrow in 2011 by Screen International and who was chosen by the BBC to make an advertisement featuring punk band reciting Lord Byron's poems. He is Corin Hardy. He adores the 70s, the horror movies of the 80s, Spielberg's cinema, fairy tales and, of course, the work of Ray Harryhausen, a man he knew and loved. The Hallow premiered at midnight one January in Sundance...