Outcasts in from the cold

Another hugely welcome release in the British Film Institute’s Flipside series sees a long-lost and impossible to find slice of Irish folk horror from the writer of Blood on Satan’s Claw

The Outcasts Dir Robert Wynne-Simmons, Ireland 1982 BFI, Blu-ray, £16.99 Released for one week in 1982 in a cinema in Dublin, with a VHS release in 1983 and a broadcast by Channel 4 in 1984, The Outcasts was, until now, virtually impossible to find. This restoration by the Irish Film Institute should help bring this long-lost film, written and directed by Robin Wynne-Simmons, who wrote the script for folk horror classic Blood on Satan’s Claw, to the wider audience it deserves. The story is set in pre-Famine Ireland in the early 19th century, where elements of the Celtic Christian Church remain. The local priest (Paul Bennett) is no puritan and presides with equanimity over a shotgun (or rather shillelagh) wedding. The union is brokered by the Matchmaker, Keenan (Cyril Cusack),…

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