Boys From County Hell selected for Sitges Film Festival
Date Posted: September 1, 2020
Congratulations to Northern Ireland’s Chris Baugh and Brendan Mullin whose latest film Boys From County Hell has been selected to screen at the 53rd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. The Festival, which runs from 8th – 18th October, is the number one fantasy film festival in the world. The film will screen in the Panorama Fantastic Section of the Festival which is for fantasy and horror-themed independent films. By popular vote, the audience will present an award to the best fiction feature film in this section.
Filmed entirely on location in Northern Ireland Boys From County Hell is a co-production between Six Mile Hill and Blinder Films. Written and directed by Chris Baugh from a story by Baugh and Brendan Mullin the dark comedy horror follows a crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, who must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire. Boys From County Hell stars Jack Rowan (Born to Kill), Nigel O’Neill (Bad Day for the Cut), Louisa Harland (Derry Girls), Michael Hough (My Name is Emily), John Lynch (The Secret Garden, Black Death, Best) and Fra Fee (Les Miserables, Animals).
The film is a co-production between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and boasts an impressive mix of crew from both sides of the border including DOP Ryan Kernaghan, Production Designer John Leslie, Editor Brian Philip Davis, Costume Designer Triona Lillis, First AD Craig Kenny, stunts by Brendan Condren and SFX from Bowsie Workshop and Millennium FX.
This is the second feature from Baugh and Mullin following their debut Bad Day for the Cut which was developed and produced via Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Focus scheme and received its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In 2012 the duo also made a short film Boys From County Hell which picked up Best Irish Short at the Kerry International Film Festival.
Produced by Brendan Mullin for Six Mile Hill and Yvonne Donohoe for Blinder Films. Executive producers are Katie Holly for Blinder Films, Brian Kavanagh Jones and Rian Cahill for Automatik in the US. Co-producer is Katy Jackson. The film was supported by Endeavor Content, Screen Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen, and Egg Post Production.
Click here to find out more about Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
