All You Need is Death

Director Paul Duane

Starring Simone Collins, Charlie Maher, Olwen Fouéré

Rated M

Score 4/6

A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.

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I’ve never been the biggest fan of the horror genre, but it is the time of year considering it’s October and that Halloween is on the 31st. All you need is death is going to be screened at the 2024 Irish Film Festival, so there’s a good reason to watch a movie you might not normally watch. I went into this completely unfamiliar with the filmmakers and the actors cast in this, on a side note I thought the way that the credits rolled was unique.




As movies go All You Need is Death comes as a cerebral horror rather then the more garden variety blood and gore offerings that you might normally watch on Halloween. All You Need is Death really doesn’t explain itself right off the bat it leaves the audience to come to their own conclusions about a lot of things leading to climax that can only describe “what the heck?”. There where brief moments throughout the movie that reminded me of Ari Aster’s 2018 movie Hereditary.

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