Ireland has recently become a force to be reckoned with in the horror film genre.

Here’s top ten of the more recent Irish horror films:

1. Dead Meat, 2004

An infection spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, which causes the dead to rise and feed on the living.


2. Isolation, 2005

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

3. Outcast, 2010

A beast stalks a Romany girl and her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend.


4. Wake Wood, 2011

The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.


5. Grabbers, 2012

When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.

6. Citadel, 2012

An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children.

7. Legend of the Bog, 2009

When a 'bog body,’ a 2000 year old murder victim preserved in a peat bog, is disturbed by developers in rural Ireland, an archaeologist, a hunter and their helpers face the task of sending him back where he came from.

8. Boy Eats Girl, 2005

A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

9. Botched, 2007

During a heist in Russia, a professional thief finds himself dealing with serial killers, insane hostages, double-crossing psycho Russian hardmen and the real possibility of a horrible death.

10. Shrooms, 2007

Three couples go in some Irish woods to collect magic mushrooms and trip out.

On their way they meet some strange inhabitants of the woods and it doesn't take long until a creepy story is being told at the campfire which might be more than just a story.