‘The folklore lends itself to it’: Ireland’s horror films find mainstream success

Country’s film industry makes 20 horrors in last six years, as directors channel the vampires and banshees of traditional talesA century after Bram Stoker introduced Dracula to the world, Irish storytellers are again conjuring vampires – as well as zombies, ghosts, changelings and grisly, mysterious diseases – and this time on the big screen.Young film directors are channelling Ireland’s dark folklore and contemporary social ills into a wave of horror films that are findi