With the 2024 Overlook Film Festival now officially in the rearview mirror, the annual New Orleans celebration of all things horror has announced the winners of its audience and jury awards.
The festival’s top prize, the Audience Award for Feature Film, went to “Oddity,” Damian Mc Carthy’s home invasion horror flick that was a breakout from the SXSW 2024 midnight lineup.
“’Oddity’ delivers a brilliant, bespoke, and tightly entertaining string of ideas that work stronger as a collection — with even these missteps feeling like they branch from a unified center,” IndieWire’s Alison Foreman wrote in her Overlook review of the film. “Similar to Mc Carthy’s earlier ‘Caveat,’ this 98-minute treat demands to be reassessed a second time. Thank the wooden boy it’s coming to streaming: a triumphant addition to the director’s growing filmography and a standout in Shudder’s carousel of kick-ass ghost stories.”
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The festival’s top prize, the Audience Award for Feature Film, went to “Oddity,” Damian Mc Carthy’s home invasion horror flick that was a breakout from the SXSW 2024 midnight lineup.
“’Oddity’ delivers a brilliant, bespoke, and tightly entertaining string of ideas that work stronger as a collection — with even these missteps feeling like they branch from a unified center,” IndieWire’s Alison Foreman wrote in her Overlook review of the film. “Similar to Mc Carthy’s earlier ‘Caveat,’ this 98-minute treat demands to be reassessed a second time. Thank the wooden boy it’s coming to streaming: a triumphant addition to the director’s growing filmography and a standout in Shudder’s carousel of kick-ass ghost stories.”
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- 4/11/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
From pressed pennies to serial killer trophies, collections come in all shapes and sizes. Special assortments do not have to be uniform, nor does their common trait need to be immediately apparent. Just take the menagerie of artifacts in the basement from “Cabin in the Woods” or the museum of haunted items central to “The Conjuring” series. In fact, some of the best collections are really puzzles holding the solutions to even more arcane mysteries.
Such is the case with “Oddity,” writer/director Damian Mc Carthy’s second feature film, which premiered at SXSW as part of festival’s midnight lineup on March 8. Featuring a steely blind psychic (Carolyn Bracken) as its supernatural star and a menacing wooden mannequin as its scary centerpiece, this mostly single-location thriller is made in an almost-but-not-quite vaudevillian style that feels spiritually akin to “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.” It’s a richly...
Such is the case with “Oddity,” writer/director Damian Mc Carthy’s second feature film, which premiered at SXSW as part of festival’s midnight lineup on March 8. Featuring a steely blind psychic (Carolyn Bracken) as its supernatural star and a menacing wooden mannequin as its scary centerpiece, this mostly single-location thriller is made in an almost-but-not-quite vaudevillian style that feels spiritually akin to “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.” It’s a richly...
- 3/26/2024
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Damian McCarthy sure does love a creepy antique. If you don’t recall the director’s previous effort Caveat, you at least remember the film’s desiccated stuffed bunny which featured heavily in its plot about sick family secrets hiding within the bones of a remote Irish house. McCarthy scales-up the prop-fetishism (and scares!) in Oddity, which centers around a terrifying human-size wooden effigy that may hold the key to righting a wrong committed against an innocent women.
Carolyn Bracken (You Are Not My Mother) stars as Dani, who answers the door one night and is greeted by a mysterious man named Olin Boole (Tadhg Murphy) who claims that she has an intruder in her home. Initially skeptical, she decides to let the man in before the film leaps forward. A while later, Boole has died after taking the fall for Dani’s murder and her doctor husband Ted (Gwilym Lee...
Carolyn Bracken (You Are Not My Mother) stars as Dani, who answers the door one night and is greeted by a mysterious man named Olin Boole (Tadhg Murphy) who claims that she has an intruder in her home. Initially skeptical, she decides to let the man in before the film leaps forward. A while later, Boole has died after taking the fall for Dani’s murder and her doctor husband Ted (Gwilym Lee...
- 3/19/2024
- by Rocco T. Thompson
- DailyDead
Left to right: Cuckoo, Immaculate, Azrael, Birdeater (all images courtesy SXSW)Graphic: The A.V. Club
The film festival portion of South by Southwest is always packed with stars, bringing their would-be blockbusters out to Austin, Texas, for splashy premieres. But it’s also a festival that’s never lost sight of the power of genre.
The film festival portion of South by Southwest is always packed with stars, bringing their would-be blockbusters out to Austin, Texas, for splashy premieres. But it’s also a festival that’s never lost sight of the power of genre.
- 3/19/2024
- by Matthew Jackson
- avclub.com
Photo: Universal Pictures/Eric Laciste, The Chosen/Mike Kubeisy, A24, Carlow Rodriguez/Lionsgate, Image: Universal Pictures, A24, Srh, Lionsgate, Graphic: The A.V. Club, The A.V. ClubSXSW review: The Fall GuyRyan Gosling in The Fall GuyPhoto: Universal Pictures/Eric Laciste
Fresh off of his show-stopping performance of “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars,...
Fresh off of his show-stopping performance of “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars,...
- 3/16/2024
- avclub.com
From left: A Dark Song (Samson Films/IFC Midnight), The Hole In The Ground (A24), and Caveat (Shudder)Graphic: The A.V. Club
It’s St. Patrick’s Day time again, which means only one thing for a lot of horror movie fans: Mainlining the Leprechaun films for yet another year.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day time again, which means only one thing for a lot of horror movie fans: Mainlining the Leprechaun films for yet another year.
- 3/14/2024
- by Matthew Jackson
- avclub.com
Writer/Director Damian Mc Carthy‘s sophomore effort, Oddity, serves as a welcome extension of his feature debut, Caveat, in many ways. Aside from the brief return of at least one familiar face and a nightmare bunny, Oddity continues the filmmaker’s exploration of supernatural karma and retribution with offbeat characters and a unique vision for scares. Armed with a tighter narrative, a lighter tone, and a creepy mannequin, Mc Carthy further establishes his horror style.
Oddity begins with an intense scenario that sees a woman, Dani (You Are Not My Mother’s Carolyn Bracken), forced to decide whether to trust the desperate stranger at her door, insisting someone snuck into her empty, rural house when she wasn’t looking. Dani’s ultimate decision sets up the overarching mystery. A quick time jump ahead reveals that Dani was murdered that fateful night and that her husband, Ted (Gwilym Lee), is...
Oddity begins with an intense scenario that sees a woman, Dani (You Are Not My Mother’s Carolyn Bracken), forced to decide whether to trust the desperate stranger at her door, insisting someone snuck into her empty, rural house when she wasn’t looking. Dani’s ultimate decision sets up the overarching mystery. A quick time jump ahead reveals that Dani was murdered that fateful night and that her husband, Ted (Gwilym Lee), is...
- 3/9/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
This article appears in the SXSW 2024 issue of Den of Geek magazine. Check out all of our SXSW coverage here.
“A revenge ghost story with elements of a monster movie” is how Irish helmer Damian McCarthy describes his latest chiller, which is set to bring “plenty of scares and a few a few laughs” to SXSW’s late-night line-up. A supernatural horror centered around spooky trinkets, Oddity follows a blind medium (You Are Not My Mother’s Carolyn Bracken) as she uncovers the truth behind her twin sister’s death with the help of a terrifying wooden mannequin.
“She collects a lot of haunted items—she can pick up an object and tell you everything about it,” explains McCarthy, the writer/director of 2020’s psychological thriller Caveat and celebrated horror short He Dies at the End. Not only does one of these objects—the aforementioned “wooden man”—help her to catch her sister’s killer,...
“A revenge ghost story with elements of a monster movie” is how Irish helmer Damian McCarthy describes his latest chiller, which is set to bring “plenty of scares and a few a few laughs” to SXSW’s late-night line-up. A supernatural horror centered around spooky trinkets, Oddity follows a blind medium (You Are Not My Mother’s Carolyn Bracken) as she uncovers the truth behind her twin sister’s death with the help of a terrifying wooden mannequin.
“She collects a lot of haunted items—she can pick up an object and tell you everything about it,” explains McCarthy, the writer/director of 2020’s psychological thriller Caveat and celebrated horror short He Dies at the End. Not only does one of these objects—the aforementioned “wooden man”—help her to catch her sister’s killer,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The latest edition of the SXSW Film Festival kicks off later this week in Austin, Texas, unleashing an expansive slate of film programming an experiences- emphasis on expansive. For the horror fan, the fest offers so much more beyond the Midnighter programming section, and this SXSW 2024 preview guide should help.
The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. The Midnighter category includes buzzy titles like Samara Weaving-starring Azrael and Sundance favorite It’s What’s Inside. The fest’s Headliner section comes packed with highly anticipated titles like Immaculate, Cuckoo, and Arcadian. But all of this only scratches the surface of titles to get excited about.
Whether you’re heading to Austin this week or keeping track...
The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. The Midnighter category includes buzzy titles like Samara Weaving-starring Azrael and Sundance favorite It’s What’s Inside. The fest’s Headliner section comes packed with highly anticipated titles like Immaculate, Cuckoo, and Arcadian. But all of this only scratches the surface of titles to get excited about.
Whether you’re heading to Austin this week or keeping track...
- 3/4/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Writer/director Damian Mc Carthy made his feature debut with the Irish horror movie Caveat back in 2021 – it’s streaming on Shudder – and he’s back this year with a new movie.
Just announced as part of the SXSW 2024 lineup, Damian Mc Carthy’s hotly anticipated second movie is titled Oddity, and you can check out a first-look image up above (and below).
“In this new supernatural spectacle from Caveat‘s Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.”
Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney star in Oddity, which will World Premiere at SXSW in March.
Producers include Katie Holly, Laura Tunstall, and Evan Horan.
Stay tuned for more on Oddity as we learn it.
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Just announced as part of the SXSW 2024 lineup, Damian Mc Carthy’s hotly anticipated second movie is titled Oddity, and you can check out a first-look image up above (and below).
“In this new supernatural spectacle from Caveat‘s Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her sister’s death with the help of a frightening wooden mannequin.”
Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney star in Oddity, which will World Premiere at SXSW in March.
Producers include Katie Holly, Laura Tunstall, and Evan Horan.
Stay tuned for more on Oddity as we learn it.
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- 1/10/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
This year’s SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, just unveiled their lineup, and what a massive year for horror.
The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for what’s in store.
The fest unveiled its Midnight lineup, which includes the Samara Weaving-starring Azrael. Elsewhere, look for Neon’s highly anticipated Cuckoo set to make its premiere.
Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2024’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.
Narrative Spotlight
Unforgettable features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Cuckoo (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Producers: Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer...
The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for what’s in store.
The fest unveiled its Midnight lineup, which includes the Samara Weaving-starring Azrael. Elsewhere, look for Neon’s highly anticipated Cuckoo set to make its premiere.
Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2024’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.
Narrative Spotlight
Unforgettable features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Cuckoo (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Producers: Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer...
- 1/10/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Not a nadir in recent horror cinema, but well below average — and sea level — “The Cellar” is a logy contraption whose basic elements seem all too obviously determined by international co-production requirements, rather than any internal logic. Toplining scream queen Elisha Cuthbert as a mother who unwittingly moves her family into a house of supernatural peril, this West Ireland-shot thriller, made in conjunction with Belgian interests, is technically polished. But writer-director Brendan Muldowney’s latest lacks the thick atmospherics that might have punched across a sketchy screenplay, which falls short in expanding the premise of his 2004 short “The Ten Steps.” Rlje Films is releasing this SXSW premiere to North American theaters on April 15, simultaneous with its streaming launch on Shudder.
Muldowney’s ten-minute short is basically recycled as a first act here, with a tad more setup. Married advertising professionals Keira (Cuthbert) and Brian (Eoin Macken) have moved to a...
Muldowney’s ten-minute short is basically recycled as a first act here, with a tad more setup. Married advertising professionals Keira (Cuthbert) and Brian (Eoin Macken) have moved to a...
- 3/17/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Ben Caplan, Jonathan French, Conor Dwane, Leila Sykes | Written and Directed by Damian Mc Carthy
n the first few minutes of writer/director, Damian Mc Carthy’s debut feature Caveat Barret offers Isaac (Jonathan French; Bravado) 200 Gbp, about $290, a day to watch over his niece Olga (Leila Sykes; Lancaster Skies). “There’s got to be more to it than that” is his reply. And indeed there is, lots more, and none of it good.
Caveat is a tense and claustrophobic film built mostly around two characters and one location. And what a location it is, a dank and decaying house on a remote island. It looks ominous, and as the film’s first seconds strongly hint, there’s a good reason for that.
Before we can unravel the house’s mysteries however we have to get through some rather implausible bits of plotting. Isaac is just out of the hospital,...
n the first few minutes of writer/director, Damian Mc Carthy’s debut feature Caveat Barret offers Isaac (Jonathan French; Bravado) 200 Gbp, about $290, a day to watch over his niece Olga (Leila Sykes; Lancaster Skies). “There’s got to be more to it than that” is his reply. And indeed there is, lots more, and none of it good.
Caveat is a tense and claustrophobic film built mostly around two characters and one location. And what a location it is, a dank and decaying house on a remote island. It looks ominous, and as the film’s first seconds strongly hint, there’s a good reason for that.
Before we can unravel the house’s mysteries however we have to get through some rather implausible bits of plotting. Isaac is just out of the hospital,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Sometimes the best way to defeat the life-threatening danger in the present is to overcome the long buried, traumatic memories of the past. That’s certainly the case for actor Jonathan French’s protagonist of Isaac in the new horror film, ‘Caveat.’ His frightening journey to protect his life will be revealed when the drama’s released on […]
The post Actor Jonathan French Fights the Trauma of the Past and Present in Caveat Blu-ray Giveaway appeared first on Shockya.com.
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- 11/10/2021
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
“full of claustrophobic dread and psychological mystery” – Bloody-Disgusting
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Caveat fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release CAVEATon VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on November 16, 2021.
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Written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy in his feature directorial debut, Caveat stars Ben Caplan (“Band of Brothers...
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Caveat fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release CAVEATon VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on November 16, 2021.
Now you can win the Win the Blu-ray of Caveat. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite scary movie that starts with the letter ‘C’ is (I’d say Carnival Of Souls. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Written and directed by Damian Mc Carthy in his feature directorial debut, Caveat stars Ben Caplan (“Band of Brothers...
- 11/9/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
You can’t fault the writing-directing duo of David Charbonier and Justin Powell for reckless overreaching: Their first feature, “The Djinn”, stirred terror around just one boy in an apartment. Their second, which premiered at Fantastic Fest last fall, cautiously ups the ante to two boys and one whole house. “The Boy Behind the Door” is a more polished affair than its predecessor, with no supernatural aspect to the child endangerment this time. But . Shudder is adding the film to its streaming service July 29.
After a brief, alarming prologue, we properly meet our protagonists in a moment of calm beforehand — two 12-year-old lads playing catch in a field en route to a Little League game. When their ball rolls down an embankment, Kevin goes to retrieve it but does not return. Bobby (Lonnie Chavis from “This Is Us”) eventually goes looking for him, which doesn’t end well for him either.
After a brief, alarming prologue, we properly meet our protagonists in a moment of calm beforehand — two 12-year-old lads playing catch in a field en route to a Little League game. When their ball rolls down an embankment, Kevin goes to retrieve it but does not return. Bobby (Lonnie Chavis from “This Is Us”) eventually goes looking for him, which doesn’t end well for him either.
- 7/28/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Caveat is the feature debut of Irish writer and director Damian McCarthy and stars Ben Caplan (Call the Midwife), Jonathan French (A Soldier’s Voice), and Leila Sykes (Missing Something). In Caveat, a solitary drifter accepts a job to look after his landlord’s niece for a few days in an isolated country house on a remote island. The simple gig takes a disturbing turn when he learns that he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements and keeps corners of the home out of his reach. Alone and with no escape, the young girl becomes erratic, mysteries of the house are revealed, and a horrific game is afoot.
On paper, Caveat has all the elements of a great horror piece. A remote house, a murder plot, a possible haunting, and a Saw-esque element of helplessnes – all of the ingredients are there. Unfortunately, despite having all the right stuff,...
On paper, Caveat has all the elements of a great horror piece. A remote house, a murder plot, a possible haunting, and a Saw-esque element of helplessnes – all of the ingredients are there. Unfortunately, despite having all the right stuff,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Caitlin Kennedy
- DailyDead
Stars: Ben Caplan, Jonathan French, Conor Dwane, Leila Sykes | Written and Directed by Damian Mc Carthy
In the first few minutes of writer/director, Damian Mc Carthy’s debut feature Caveat Barret offers Isaac (Jonathan French; Bravado) 200 Gbp, about $290, a day to watch over his niece Olga (Leila Sykes; Lancaster Skies). “There’s got to be more to it than that” is his reply. And indeed there is, lots more, and none of it good.
Caveat is a tense and claustrophobic film built mostly around two characters and one location. And what a location it is, a dank and decaying house on a remote island. It looks ominous, and as the film’s first seconds strongly hint, there’s a good reason for that.
Before we can unravel the house’s mysteries however we have to get through some rather implausible bits of plotting. Isaac is just out of the hospital,...
In the first few minutes of writer/director, Damian Mc Carthy’s debut feature Caveat Barret offers Isaac (Jonathan French; Bravado) 200 Gbp, about $290, a day to watch over his niece Olga (Leila Sykes; Lancaster Skies). “There’s got to be more to it than that” is his reply. And indeed there is, lots more, and none of it good.
Caveat is a tense and claustrophobic film built mostly around two characters and one location. And what a location it is, a dank and decaying house on a remote island. It looks ominous, and as the film’s first seconds strongly hint, there’s a good reason for that.
Before we can unravel the house’s mysteries however we have to get through some rather implausible bits of plotting. Isaac is just out of the hospital,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Many a horror film has to get its audience past the critical “now why would you do that” moment, where the plot’s continuation hinges on the protagonist making a brazenly terrible decision — entering that obviously doomed location, taking in that plainly psychotic stranger, failing to kill their tormentor when the opportunity presents itself — as the viewer yells at them do the opposite.
“Caveat,” a creatively cash-strapped debut from Irish writer-director Damian Mc Carthy, wisely gets its own such moment over with in the first 10 minutes, but it’s a doozy. Amnesia-afflicted drifter Isaac (fine newcomer Jonathan French) is enlisted by shady stranger Barrett (Ben Caplan) to look after his psychologically disturbed niece Olga (Leila Sykes) in a decrepit house on a deserted rural island following her father’s recent suicide. If that weren’t tempting enough, Isaac also has to be harnessed and chained to a post in the...
“Caveat,” a creatively cash-strapped debut from Irish writer-director Damian Mc Carthy, wisely gets its own such moment over with in the first 10 minutes, but it’s a doozy. Amnesia-afflicted drifter Isaac (fine newcomer Jonathan French) is enlisted by shady stranger Barrett (Ben Caplan) to look after his psychologically disturbed niece Olga (Leila Sykes) in a decrepit house on a deserted rural island following her father’s recent suicide. If that weren’t tempting enough, Isaac also has to be harnessed and chained to a post in the...
- 6/2/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Here’s a free bit of life advice: If someone offers you money to babysit their disturbed adult niece in the remote County Cork house where her father recently killed himself, don’t take it. Isaac (memorable newcomer Jonathan French) knows there has to be a catch, but paying gigs are few and far between for an institutionalized drifter who suffers from memory loss, and his potential employer Moe (Ben Caplan) claims to be an old friend. It’s worth noting that he doesn’t claim to be a very good one.
As we already suspect — and as Isaac learns the hard way — the title of Irish filmmaker Damian Mc Carthy’s “Caveat” wryly undersells the dangers at hand. The first red flag is the house is located on the middle of its own tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Even more alarming: Isaac reveals that he doesn’t know how to swim.
As we already suspect — and as Isaac learns the hard way — the title of Irish filmmaker Damian Mc Carthy’s “Caveat” wryly undersells the dangers at hand. The first red flag is the house is located on the middle of its own tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Even more alarming: Isaac reveals that he doesn’t know how to swim.
- 6/2/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Isaac (Jonathan French) doesn’t remember Barret (Ben Caplan), but Barret assures him they are friends. He even visited him at the hospital only to discover Isaac had no recollection of ever having met him before. I guess you have two choices when suffering from partial memory loss: you either decide to trust nobody or accept the help of strangers who say they aren’t strangers at all. Isaac is the latte—albeit skeptical. Whether that skepticism is towards Barret himself or the job he’s offering, however, is yet to be revealed. Maybe his “friend” truly does want to help and a babysitting job paying two hundred quid a day definitely would. So why does Barret leave certain integral details about the gig out? What’s the catch?
Films like Caveat are interesting because they make you wonder what was going through the writer-director’s mind when conjuring their premise.
Films like Caveat are interesting because they make you wonder what was going through the writer-director’s mind when conjuring their premise.
- 5/31/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
In Caveat, Lone drifter Isaac accepts a job to look after his landlord’s niece, Olga, for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there’s a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga’s uncle, Barrett leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays increasingly erratic behavior as a trapped Isaac makes a series of horrific discoveries in the house. Here’s the trailer:
The feature debut from Irish writer/director Damian Mc Carthy, Caveat stars Ben Caplan, Jonathan French (A Soldier’s Voice), and Leila Sykes (Missing Something).
A tense, slow-building cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Irish countryside, Caveat’s stunning atmospheric visuals and unforgettable ending come together to make a bold debut for Mc Carthy and a compelling...
The feature debut from Irish writer/director Damian Mc Carthy, Caveat stars Ben Caplan, Jonathan French (A Soldier’s Voice), and Leila Sykes (Missing Something).
A tense, slow-building cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Irish countryside, Caveat’s stunning atmospheric visuals and unforgettable ending come together to make a bold debut for Mc Carthy and a compelling...
- 5/29/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Watch the Trailer for Caveat: "In Caveat, Lone drifter Isaac accepts a job to look after his landlord's niece, Olga, for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there’s a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga's uncle, Barrett leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays increasingly erratic behavior as a trapped Isaac makes a series of horrific discoveries in the house.
The feature debut from Irish writer/director Damian Mc Carthy, Caveat stars Ben Caplan, Jonathan French (A Soldier's Voice), and Leila Sykes (Missing Something).
A tense, slow-building cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Irish countryside, Caveat’s stunning atmospheric visuals and unforgettable ending come together to make a bold debut for Mc Carthy and a compelling new...
The feature debut from Irish writer/director Damian Mc Carthy, Caveat stars Ben Caplan, Jonathan French (A Soldier's Voice), and Leila Sykes (Missing Something).
A tense, slow-building cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Irish countryside, Caveat’s stunning atmospheric visuals and unforgettable ending come together to make a bold debut for Mc Carthy and a compelling new...
- 5/24/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
"Do you think he's going to let you leave there?" Shudder has released an official trailer for a strange Irish dark mystery thriller titled Caveat, which first premiered at the IndieCork Film Festival in Ireland last fall. It begins streaming on Shudder in a few weeks. How's this for a terrifying premise: A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island. Uhh. "A tense, slow-building cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Irish countryside, Caveat’s stunning atmospheric visuals and unforgettable ending come together to make a bold debut for Mc Carthy and a compelling new entry to the psychological horror genre." Starring Jonathan French, Leila Sykes, and Ben Caplan. That weird dead rabbit puppet drummer doll thing is creepy as hell, my goodness. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Damian Mc Carthy's Caveat,...
- 5/23/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
This is going to be a great Summer for horror fans and Shudder. The horror streaming service have dropped their slate of original and exclusive films for June, July and August and they are all must see titles. Obviously, the debut of George A. Romero’s legendary “lost” film The Amusement Park on June 8th is going to be a big day for his fans. We shared with you yesterday that the horror flick Caveat will kick off the Summer season on June 3rd. And do you remember when a trailer for a Russian sci-fi horror flick about a hole in the ground kind of blew up for about twenty four hours before it got taken down? Yeah. Shudder has Superdeep premiering on June 17th....
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- 5/6/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Shudder announced yesterday that Damian Mc Carthy’s feature debut Caveat will be released in all their territories on June 3rd. That covers the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand if you've lost count. Lone drifter Isaac (Jonathan French) accepts a job to look after his landlord's niece, Olga (Leila Sykes), for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there’s a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga's uncle, Barrett (Ben Caplan) leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays increasingly erratic behavior as a trapped Isaac makes a series of horrific...
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- 5/5/2021
- Screen Anarchy
It has been announced that Damian Mc Carthy's feature debut, Caveat, will be released on June 3rd on Shudder in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand:
"Shudder, the premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, is delighted to announce that Damian Mc Carthy’s feature debut, the unnerving cat and mouse thriller Caveat, will be released exclusively on Shudder on June 3, 2021. Filmed in Cork, Ireland, Caveat is Mc Carthy’s feature debut following a string of successful short horror films.
Lone drifter Isaac (Jonathan French) accepts a job to look after his landlord's niece, Olga (Leila Sykes), for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there’s a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms.
Once Olga's uncle, Barrett (Ben Caplan) leaves the two of them alone,...
"Shudder, the premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, is delighted to announce that Damian Mc Carthy’s feature debut, the unnerving cat and mouse thriller Caveat, will be released exclusively on Shudder on June 3, 2021. Filmed in Cork, Ireland, Caveat is Mc Carthy’s feature debut following a string of successful short horror films.
Lone drifter Isaac (Jonathan French) accepts a job to look after his landlord's niece, Olga (Leila Sykes), for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there’s a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms.
Once Olga's uncle, Barrett (Ben Caplan) leaves the two of them alone,...
- 5/4/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
This year’s edition (4-18 October), which saw Damian Mc Carthy’s Caveat emerge triumphant, was brought to a close by the awards ceremony, held online on 17 October. It’s a wrap for the 2020 edition of the IndieCork Film Festival (4-18 October), one of Ireland’s leading events celebrating independent cinema and music. The festival, originally set to be a hybrid event with both live and online screenings, had to go fully virtual after the government’s announcement that it would be implementing level 3 restrictions on 7 October, owing to the sharp increase in coronavirus cases recorded across the country. The awards ceremony was held online on 17 October. The big winners of this year’s edition were Damian Mc Carthy’s psychological thriller Caveat (the recipient of the Award of the Festival) and the two films in receipt of the Spirit of IndieCork Awards – namely, Margaretta D’Arcy’s documentary A Maverick Islander and.
- 10/19/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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