There have been hundreds of different takes on vampires on television and film but writer and director Chris Baugh had never seen anything set against the backdrop of his home in Northern Ireland.
That’s why he decided to take a stab at a script based around his home country but while everybody knows that “Dracula” author Bram Stoker is Irish, there’s far less knowledge surrounding the influence an ancient Irish legend supposedly had on him while writing one of the definitive horror novels in history.
A blood-drinking fiend called Abhartach was one of the first ever stories about an undead creature rising from its grave and the original stories told about how he could only be killed by a particular type of wood, which led to the theory that it gave Stoker an idea for the creature he would write about in his book.
Baugh ran with that idea while adding mythology about a small town in Ireland where the people felt shortchanged after their local legend was all but swallowed up thanks to Stoker’s novel that sparked a century’s long obsession with vampires. The finish product involved a group of locals who accidentally awaken the ancient evil living under their town and the fight to keep Abhartach from feasting on every one of them…
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to order up some pints and gather some stones as we review the 2021 horror-comedy “Boys from County Hell”…
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