Here's a creepy trailer for a grey day: Outcast, the new horror from writer/director Colm McCarthy. Riffing on Celtic mythology and with the familiar tang of a Northern Irish accent here and there*, it's an unusual twist on a monster story.
The set-up has Mary (Red Road's Katie Dickie) and her son Fergal (Niall Bruton) on the run from a mysterious hunter (James Nesbitt). Mary sets strict rules in place to protect her son from something, but when he meets Petronella (Hannah Stanbridge) he starts to break those rules and, we're guessing, all Tír na nÓg breaks loose**.
The film's due out later this autumn, unless you're going to see it at Frightfest at the end of August, and by the looks of this one should be proper scary. And not just because him from the Yellow Pages ads has a terrifying beard either.
*See? We're not all terrorists! Some of us are terrifying supernatural beings instead!
**Yes, we know that's closer to a Celtic heaven than hell, Don't start writing in.