An Taibhse

The Ghost

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Imagine The Shining, but set in mid-19th century Ireland shortly after the potato famine. Instead of the Overlook, a large, chilly Georgian manor house. Widower Eamon (Tom Kerrisk) signs on as winter caretaker, and brings with him his teenage daughter, Máire (Livvy Hill). It’s Máire who’s disturbed by supernatural emanations, especially at night — though her father angrily denies them. There’s plenty of subtext loaded into this atmospheric frightener, the first horror film made entirely in the Irish language.

Edited to a taut, busy 92 minutes, the film works itself into a symphony of niggling submelodies: blood, religion, familial abuse.

Donald Clarke, Irish Times

A brilliant debut from Farrelly, An Taibhse is filled with well executed frights.

Kat Hughes, THN

A particularly harrowing take on the haunted house film, every creaking floorboard and pitch-black doorway pregnant with malice and dread.

Joel Harley, Starburst

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