Written and directed by Chris Baugh
Starring Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill and Louisa Harland
Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

by Nikk Nelson

These days, it’s difficult to bring any level of originality to werewolf, vampire and zombie movies and that stops almost no one. But this festival season, I was treated to two films that actually made a refreshing monster movie, The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) and Boys from County Hell (2020). Straight outta Ireland, this vampiric tale written and directed by Chris Baugh follows Eugene Moffat, played in a very impressive performance by Jack Rowan, a down on his luck and chronically directionless lad living in the small village of Six Mile Hill. Immediate parallels are drawn to An American Werewolf in London (1981) as the film opens in a pub, The Stoker, named for Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. But Six Mile Hill has its own vampire legend, that of Abhartach, who, they claim was the real inspiration behind Stoker’s novel and just so happens to be buried not too far from here…