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All You Need is Death

Dir Paul Duane, Ireland 2023 In cinemas from 19 April

A very strange film indeed. Straddling the border that separates body horror from folk horror, with a bit of the Roy Castle ‘voodoo jazz’ segment from Dr Terror’s House of Horrors thrown in; you could create a truly bizarreVenn diagram to summarise this film.

The central characters are Anna and Aleks, who, like most young couples, are absolutely mad keen on obscure Irish songs. I don’t mean U2bottle of whisky.

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