Celebrate March with Shudder's Irish Horror Collection

It’s March, so it’s time to check out Irish horror movies, and Shudder has an entire collection devoted to that very thing. Let’s check out the Irish horror films included in their Irish Horror Collection, which includes 17 titles.

A Dark Song – Grieving mother Sophia is desperate to reconnect with her dead son, so she rents an isolated home that she shares with an occultist. The plan is that the two will complete an occult ritual designed to summon her child.

All You Need is Death – A young couple travel across Ireland recording people singing old folk songs. Without the knowledge of the singers, they sell the recordings to collectors. When they encounter Rita, who sings what is basically a cursed song, things go sideways.

Several films in the Irish Horror Collection are Shudder Originals

Boys From County Hell – In this horror/comedy, a group of construction workers in the Irish town of Six Mile Hill unknowingly disturb the grave of a vampire, awakening him and putting the town in danger.

Caveat – Isaac is a drifter with memory loss, who agrees to look after a friend’s niece on a remote island. Olga is prone to catatonia, and wanders around holding the world’s creepiest rabbit toy. Weird catch: Isaac’s new job requires that he be chained to a harness, only allowing him to get to specific areas of the house.

Frewaka – After the death of her mother, Shoo, a nursing student, goes to a remote village to care for an elderly woman named Peig. Peig has been traumatized by the time she spent in a Catholic asylum, and it doesn’t help that the secluded woods she lives in hold dark secrets.

Grabbers – In this Irish comedy/horror, “residents of an island off the coast of Ireland learn that the only way to survive an invasion of blood-sucking aliens is to stay drunk.”

I Am Not a Serial Killer – Teen John Wayne Cleaver has been diagnosed as a sociopath, and is obsessed with serial killers. Through therapy, he is able to control his urges, but things get scary when he tries to find out who is responsible for murders in his town.

Mandrake - Probation officer Cathy is given the responsibility for a killer named Mary, who has just been released from jail. Known as “Bloody Mary”, locals believe she is a witch, and things escalate when two kids go missing.

Oddity – Curio shop owner Darcy (who is a blind medium) is grieving the murder of her twin sister, and resolves to finding out who killed her with the help of a wooden golem. While the suspected murderer was himself killed, Darcy discovers he was innocent when her sister’s husband brings her the dead man’s glass eye.

Sea Fever – “Solitary marine-biology student Siobhán endures a week on a ragged fishing trawler, miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life-form soon ensnares the boat. As members of the crew now succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and win their trust -- before everyone is lost.”

Son – While Laura was fleeing the demonic cult she had been a part of, she gave birth to her son David. Eight years later, cult members appear in her home, standing around David’s bed, and he falls ill. Terrifying events continue to happen while Laura tries to save her son from the cult.

The Cellar – When Brian and Kiera move into an old house with their teenage daughter Ellie and young son Steven, the kids discover a secret room within the home’s cellar. The room is covered with odd symbols painted and carved into the walls, and shortly afterwards, Ellie disappears.

The Devil’s Doorway – Set in 1960s Northern Ireland, this found footage movie is about two priests who are sent by the Vatican to look into stories of a statue of the Virgin Mary that is said to weep blood.

Unwelcome – After Jamie and Maya are attacked in their London home, they decide to move to a quiet home in Ireland that was inherited from Jamie’s Aunt Maeve. Upon moving in, they are informed by the locals about the Redcaps, a group of tiny folk who will protect the couple as long as they remember to leave them food every night. The penalty for forgetting to do this is severe.

Wake Wood – When their young daughter is killed by a dog, Patrick and Louise move to a remote town to grieve and (hopefully) recover. While there, they discover a ritual that is said to return the dead to life…but only for three days.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – An adaptation of the book by Shirley Jackson (who also wrote The Haunting of Hill House), this is a creepy little tale about two sisters living with their ailing Uncle in a large house. Six years earlier, the rest of the family died by poison, and the townspeople believe that older sister Constance did it. When a man arrives claiming to be their cousin, Constance is tempted to leave with him…but can he be trusted?

Without Name – “A land surveyor is tasked with measuring an ancient forest for a developer, but soon begins to lose his reason when he starts to see a strange silhouette moving amongst the trees.”