All You Need is Death

Local title
Vajad vaid surma
Director
Paul Duane
Country
Ireland
Year
2023
Festival
HÕFF 2024
Programme
HÕFF Main Programme
Genre
supernatural film, horror film
Subject
music, mysticism

Anna and Aleks record forgotten Irish songs to sell them to collectors on the black market. The music's value is determined by its rarity, and when the couple stumbles upon an ancient song in an extinct dialect, passed down through generations for centuries, they realize they've found something truly unique. They soon discover why the ballad was never noted down, and at that moment, All You Need is Death escalates into messy body horror of the finest kind.

Documentary filmmaker Paul Duane's horror debut encompasses an impressively bizarre world-building, charged with magnetic music and exquisite sound design.

Director
Paul Duane
Screenwriter
Paul Duane
Cast
Simone Collins, Olwen Fouéré, Gary Whelan
Producer
Paul Duane
DoP
Conor Rotherham
Editor
Eoin McDonagh
Composer
Ian Lynch
Production
1185 Films, Witchman Films, XYZ Films
World sales
The Festival Agency
Runtime
Language
English
Subtitles
Estonian
Other festivals
Göteborg

Screenings

Rõdusaal Haapsalu kultuurikeskus
Screening039203 / Vajad vaid surma
SubtitlesEstonian
Screening duration
Trailer
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