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* CanadaEh: The Canadian tourists at the beginning are instantly recognizable as such because they have big maple leaf patches on their jackets.
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** Eugene is said to be a screw-up because he's unemployed and drinking a lot at the start. Except, he sensibly goes into work with his father to finance a move to Australia, and assembles a team of locals to help out with construction who'd otherwise avoid the project due to Francie being a BadBoss. He presumably had to train Claire and SP, and even gets good work out of the local drunk. And when the horror starts happening, it's Eugene who's the most proactive with his quick thinking. This could be justified by Francie being overly hard on him.
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** Eugene is said to be a screw-up because he's unemployed and drinking a lot at the start. Except, he sensibly goes into work with his father to finance a move to Australia, and [[TheLeader assembles a team of locals locals]] [[InTheBlood to help out with construction construction]] who'd otherwise avoid the project due to Francie being a BadBoss. BadBoss. He presumably had to train Claire and SP, and even gets good work out of the local drunk. drunk. And when the horror starts happening, it's Eugene who's the most proactive with his quick thinking. This could be justified by Francie being overly hard on him.
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* RatedMForManly: Francie is a walking parody of the typical country Irish hardman.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Claire is the most prominent woman in the story, playing TheChick in a group of four males.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Claire is the most prominent woman in the story, playing TheChick the TokenGirl in a group of four males.
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** While [[spoiler: it's fatal]], you're not sad to see the rude bartender from The Stoker start bleeding.
** [[spoiler: Pauline]], who dies right after letting her vampirized son run free.
** [[spoiler: Pauline]], who dies right after letting her vampirized son run free.
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** While [[spoiler: it's not fatal]], you're not sad to see the rude bartender from The Stoker start bleeding.
** [[spoiler: Pauline]], who dies right after letting her vampirized son run free. On the borderline between this trope and TooDumbToLive.
** [[spoiler: Pauline]], who dies right after letting her vampirized son run free. On the borderline between this trope and TooDumbToLive.
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* BigFun: SP is plus sized and functions as the PluckyComicRelief.
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* BigFun: SP is plus sized plus-sized and functions as the PluckyComicRelief.
* BloodyHorror: Abharthach is an extremely efficient vampire. Rather than needing to bite people personally, he can magically compel their blood to come to him.
* CanadaEh: The Canadian tourists at the beginning are instantly recognizable as such because they have big maple leaf patches on their jackets.
* ChainsawGood: Averted in the case of Claire's father, who was killed in a chainsaw accident.
* ChainsawGood: Averted in the case of Claire's father, who was killed in a chainsaw accident.
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** The second act taking place in an undertaker's house means there's a ready supply of coffins to [[spoiler: subdue vampire!William]].
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** The second act taking place in an undertaker's house means there's a ready supply of coffins to [[spoiler: subdue vampire!William]].a vampirized William]].
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* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler: Abhartach turns out not to be killed by sunlight. Eugene then notes in the epilogue that the original Dracula wasn't killed by sunlight either]].
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Invoked! [[spoiler: In order to provoke vampire!William, Claire holds Eugene's hand in a way that makes it look like the two of them got together]].
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Invoked! [[spoiler: In order to provoke vampire!William, Claire holds Eugene's hand in a way that makes it look like the two of them got together]].
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* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Eugene and his friends seem to have a low opinion of ''Dracula'' initially, feeling like the town that provided the local legend doesn't get enough credit for inspiring one of the most famous characters in all of fiction. At the end, when Eugene finally reads the book, he admits that it's actually very good.
* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler: Abhartach turns out not to be killed by sunlight. Eugene then notes in the epilogue that the original Dracula wasn't killed by sunlighteither]].
either, and that it was all made up by [[Creator/FWMurnau "some German director"]]]].
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Invoked! [[spoiler: In order to provokevampire!William, the vampire William, Claire holds Eugene's hand in a way that makes it look like the two of them got together]].
* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler: Abhartach turns out not to be killed by sunlight. Eugene then notes in the epilogue that the original Dracula wasn't killed by sunlight
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Invoked! [[spoiler: In order to provoke
* FeralVampires: Abhartach is a far cry from the suave aristocratic vampire he allegedly inspired.
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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[spoiler: Abhartach doesn't actually appear until the third act, shows no characteristics and merely wants to drain the town's blood.]]
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* FolkHorror: Downplayed. The film's basis is in a real Irish legend, but the overall tone of the movie feels very much like a modern vampire movie, albeit one with a few folkloric tweaks to the mythology.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[spoiler: Abhartach doesn't actually appear until the third act, shows no personal characteristics and merely wants to drain the town's blood.]]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[spoiler: Abhartach doesn't actually appear until the third act, shows no personal characteristics and merely wants to drain the town's blood.]]
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* HourglassPlot: Eugene takes a job with his father to finance a potential move to Australia, while Claire was presumably going to stay in Ireland even when William planned to move. [[spoiler: The ending shows Claire emigrating, while Eugene decides to stay]].
* TheIgor: [[spoiler: George purposefully turns Charlie into this in the hopes of stopping construction]].
* TheIgor: [[spoiler: George purposefully turns Charlie into this in the hopes of stopping construction]].
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* HourglassPlot: Eugene takes a job with his father to finance a potential move to Australia, while Claire was presumably going to stay in Ireland even when William planned to move. [[spoiler: The ending shows Claire emigrating, emigrating to Australia, while Eugene decides to stay]].
* TheIgor: [[spoiler: George purposefully turns Charlie into this in the hopes of stopping construction]].stay]].
* TheIgor: [[spoiler: George purposefully turns Charlie into this in the hopes of stopping construction]].
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** A digger is utilised to keep vampire!Charlie buried.
** [[spoiler: Your father's severed leg makes for quite a good one against a vampire]].
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** A digger is utilised to keep vampire!Charlie the vampire Charlie buried.
** [[spoiler:Your father's Francie's severed leg makes for quite a good one against a vampire]].
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* InTheBlood: Around the end of the movie, Eugene realizes that he's probably a descendant of [[spoiler: the very hero who put Abharthach down in the first place.]]
* ObscuredSpecialEffects: Used for typical MonsterDelay in Abharthach's case, where he mostly appears in shadow or out of focus until the climax of the movie. Also present in a subtler sense in the epilogue, where [[spoiler: Francie has replaced his missing limb with a peg leg, but he's only filmed from above the waist, saving the effects team from having to digitally remove the actor's leg.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Vampire!William kills both his parents to feed]].
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* SealedEvilInACan: Abharthach himself, being sealed under the cairn for centuries.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Vampire!William After becoming a vampire, William kills both his parents to feed]].
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* SkewedPriorities: When confronted with vampire!Charlie walking around while still impaled, Francie can only wail that his "new pole" is what the impaling was done with.
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* SkewedPriorities: When confronted with vampire!Charlie the vampire Charlie walking around while still impaled, Francie can only wail that his "new pole" is what the impaling was done with.
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* SupernaturalProofFather: Francie is in complete denial about anything supernatural happening, even when Charlie is shrugging off being stabbed.
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* SupernaturalProofFather: Francie is in complete denial about anything supernatural happening, even when Charlie is shrugging off being stabbed. He gets over it, though.
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* UglyAmericanStereotype: Well, they're Canadians, but the two tourists at the start. The man in particular seems very disdainful of horror and does little but complain.
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* UglyAmericanStereotype: Well, they're Canadians, but the two tourists at the start. The man in particular seems very disdainful of horror and does little but complain. Downplayed in the case of his girlfriend, who seems to be really interested in all the history.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Eugene very badly wants the approval of his emotionally-distant father.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Eugene very badly wants the approval of his emotionally-distant father.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Eugene and Claire. [[spoiler: They won't.]]
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* WorstAid: Francie, if someone has been in a car accident, no matter how mild - it does not mean it's AOK to slap them in the back of the head.
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* WorstAid: Francie, if someone has been in a car accident, no matter how mild - it does not mean it's AOK A-OK to slap them in the back of the head.
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* LifeOrLimbDecision: Ultimately, [[spoiler:the only way to stop the enemy is to remove Francie's already-injured leg and use it as an improvised stake]].
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* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Sunlight turns out to be ineffective against Abhartach]].
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* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Sunlight turns out to be ineffective against Abhartach]].Abhartach]].
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''Boys From County Hell'' is a 2021 Irish horror comedy film, directed by Chris Baugh, and co-written by him and Brendan Mullen.
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''Boys From County Hell'' is a 2021 2020 Irish horror comedy film, directed by Chris Baugh, and co-written by him and Brendan Mullen.
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Our setting is the fictional Northern Irish hamlet of Six Mile - a one-horse town whose only claim to fame is Creator/BramStoker supposedly visiting once and getting inspired to write ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' from the local legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhartach Abhartach]]. A pile of stones with a skull on top is a semi popular tourist attraction that brings some excitement...at least until the new bypass gets built over the site. Locals aren't too happy towards local layabout Eugene Moffat (Jack Rowan), because his father is heading the construction project.
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Our setting is the fictional Northern Irish hamlet of Six Mile Hill - a one-horse town whose only claim to fame is Creator/BramStoker supposedly visiting once and getting inspired to write ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' from the local legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhartach Abhartach]]. A pile of stones with a skull on top is a semi popular tourist attraction that brings some excitement...at least until the new bypass gets built over the site. Locals aren't too happy towards local layabout Eugene Moffat (Jack Rowan), because his father is heading the construction project.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Eugene's late mother was apparently both beautiful and kind - in stark contrast to his crotchety still-alive father. [[spoiler: Her lineage also allows Eugene to subdue Abhartach]].
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: SP is established as the jokester of the group when he's introduced helping Eugene troll some tourists with a JumpScare.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Claire carries her mother and stepfather into a digger to bring them away from the town in the hopes of saving them.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: Claire carries her mother and stepfather into a digger to bring them away from the town in the hopes of saving them.
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* InformedFlaw:
** Eugene is said to be a screw-up because he's unemployed and drinking a lot at the start. Except, he sensibly goes into work with his father to finance a move to Australia, and assembles a team of locals to help out with construction who'd otherwise avoid the project due to Francie being a BadBoss. He presumably had to train Claire and SP, and even gets good work out of the local drunk. And when the horror starts happening, it's Eugene who's the most proactive with his quick thinking. This could be justified by Francie being overly hard on him.
** He's also blamed for the accident that gets [[spoiler: William killed]]. While they were out drinking late, Eugene still made sure he walked him home and had a light on his phone to make sure they wouldn't get lost or have an accident. [[spoiler: William being gored to death by one of his own father's animals]] was completely out of Eugene's hands, the blame lying entirely on George for not controlling the pig.
** Eugene is said to be a screw-up because he's unemployed and drinking a lot at the start. Except, he sensibly goes into work with his father to finance a move to Australia, and assembles a team of locals to help out with construction who'd otherwise avoid the project due to Francie being a BadBoss. He presumably had to train Claire and SP, and even gets good work out of the local drunk. And when the horror starts happening, it's Eugene who's the most proactive with his quick thinking. This could be justified by Francie being overly hard on him.
** He's also blamed for the accident that gets [[spoiler: William killed]]. While they were out drinking late, Eugene still made sure he walked him home and had a light on his phone to make sure they wouldn't get lost or have an accident. [[spoiler: William being gored to death by one of his own father's animals]] was completely out of Eugene's hands, the blame lying entirely on George for not controlling the pig.
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* AffectionateNickname: Francie occasionally calls Eugene "cub".
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Francie gets the bottom half of his leg ripped off in the final fight]].
* AssholeVictim:
** While [[spoiler: it's fatal]], you're not sad to see the rude bartender from The Stoker start bleeding.
** [[spoiler: Pauline]], who dies right after letting her vampirized son run free.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Francie gets the bottom half of his leg ripped off in the final fight]].
* AssholeVictim:
** While [[spoiler: it's fatal]], you're not sad to see the rude bartender from The Stoker start bleeding.
** [[spoiler: Pauline]], who dies right after letting her vampirized son run free.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Invoked! [[spoiler: In order to provoke vampire!William, Claire holds Eugene's hand in a way that makes it look like the two of them got together]].
* DueToTheDead: Eugene, SP and Claire list the things they like about [[spoiler: William]] to his father. Francie gets in trouble when all he can say is "[[DamnedByFaintPraise he had really good manners]]".
* InstantExpert: Claire proves quite adept at operating a digger after leaving her job at The Stoker.
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-> "There's a vampire on my site!"
''Boys From County Hell'' is a 2021 Irish horror comedy film, directed by Chris Baugh, and co-written by him and Brendan Mullen.
Our setting is the fictional Northern Irish hamlet of Six Mile - a one-horse town whose only claim to fame is Creator/BramStoker supposedly visiting once and getting inspired to write ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' from the local legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhartach Abhartach]]. A pile of stones with a skull on top is a semi popular tourist attraction that brings some excitement...at least until the new bypass gets built over the site. Locals aren't too happy towards local layabout Eugene Moffat (Jack Rowan), because his father is heading the construction project.
As expected, there may also be some grain of truth to the local legends, and building this road may also be a worse idea than imagined. Louisa Harland and John Lynch also star.
!!Tropes:
* ActionSurvivor: Neither Eugene nor Claire are trained fighters, but they handle themselves quite well against the vampires.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: George tries to shoot himself before William kills him. Unfortunately, the shotgun runs out of bullets...]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Claire arrives to help Eugene and Francie out of the basement with the digger]].
* BigFun: SP is plus sized and functions as the PluckyComicRelief.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: The very first scene is an elderly couple bleeding from their eyes, nose and ears as a sign of something supernatural.
* BondingOverMissingParents: Eugene and Claire have a heart-to-heart talking about the former's deceased mother and the latter's father.
* BrickJoke: Francie's first scene is providing a cement mixer for Eugene's planned work on the house. [[spoiler: He and Eugene later escape Abhartach via the cement tunnel upstairs]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** Played with. The skull that Eugene finds in the basement [[spoiler: doesn't prove useful on its own, but it does clue him in that his house is built over Abhartach's lair]].
** The second act taking place in an undertaker's house means there's a ready supply of coffins to [[spoiler: subdue vampire!William]].
** Charlie's bottle of whiskey being found in [[spoiler: George's van clues them in that he's responsible]].
* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler: Abhartach turns out not to be killed by sunlight. Eugene then notes in the epilogue that the original Dracula wasn't killed by sunlight either]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Paulie, William's mother, [[spoiler: allows herself to be killed by her vampirized son]].
* DisappearedDad: Claire's died when she was only seven, due to an accident with a chainsaw.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After [[spoiler: William's death]], it's said that George wants to take the body home. The police lampshade how unusual this is.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[spoiler: Abhartach doesn't actually appear until the third act, shows no characteristics and merely wants to drain the town's blood.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Francie naturally chews Eugene out when he starts to despair.
* GilliganCut: Eugene says he's only going out "for one". Cut to him and SP having been out for hours.
* GoryDiscretionShot: It cuts to black right as [[spoiler: William kills George]].
* GrimUpNorth: Six Mile Hill is located in Ulster, judging from the accents on everyone.
* HillbillyHorrors: The action takes place in an extremely rural setting.
* HollywoodHealing: [[spoiler: Francie limps on a broken leg with the bone sticking out, even after being dropped on it]].
* HourglassPlot: Eugene takes a job with his father to finance a potential move to Australia, while Claire was presumably going to stay in Ireland even when William planned to move. [[spoiler: The ending shows Claire emigrating, while Eugene decides to stay]].
* TheIgor: [[spoiler: George purposefully turns Charlie into this in the hopes of stopping construction]].
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** A digger is utilised to keep vampire!Charlie buried.
** [[spoiler: Your father's severed leg makes for quite a good one against a vampire]].
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The local undertaker's son is the one who becomes a vampire]].
* ItsAllMyFault: It's lampshaded that Eugene has a tendency to blame himself for everything that's gone wrong, even though Francie and George are more directly responsible.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** The Stoker's landlord kicks Eugene and SP out purely because the town blames them [[spoiler: for William's death]] and the impending bypass.
** William's mother Pauline is nothing but hostile towards Eugene, and even [[spoiler: foils their attempts to kill his vampire self]].
** Francie is cranky and rarely goes a scene without complaining about something.
* MissingMom: Eugene's passed away shortly before the story starts.
* MistakenForRacist: Invoked. Eugene calls the local guard and tries to warn him about a possible vampire walking around by claiming he has "dark skin", exploiting the typical casual racism often found in Irish small towns. He ends up getting a lecture about how "welcoming" Six Mile Hill is.
* InstantExpert: Claire proves quite adept at operating a digger after leaving her job at The Stoker.
* OffingTheOffspring: An accidental example. [[spoiler: George's wild boar gores William to death while he's crossing the field]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: John Lynch's accent slips from scene to scene.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler: You become one by getting cut with one of the stones on Abhartach's grave, are impossible to kill and can only be trapped underground. Sunlight also doesn't work]].
* RatedMForManly: Francie is a walking parody of the typical country Irish hardman.
* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler: William is killed shortly after announcing a move to Australia]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Vampire!William kills both his parents to feed]].
* ShirtlessScene: Eugene gets a ShowerOfAngst that's interrupted by Francie to reprimand him.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler: SP getting killed results in a very sombre third act]].
* SkewedPriorities: When confronted with vampire!Charlie walking around while still impaled, Francie can only wail that his "new pole" is what the impaling was done with.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: A balance. While there are numerous comedy breaks and snarking to lighten the mood, the horror of the situation is mostly played straight.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Claire is the most prominent woman in the story, playing TheChick in a group of four males.
* SupernaturalProofFather: Francie is in complete denial about anything supernatural happening, even when Charlie is shrugging off being stabbed.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer completely spoils that the movie is about vampires, and [[spoiler: sunlight doesn't kill Abhartach]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: George turned Charlie into a vampire to stop Abhartach from escaping]].
* WorldOfJerkass: The majority of Six Mile Hill residents seem quite rude and abrasive. Eugene in particular gets NoSympathy for merely being the son of the construction worker spearheading the new bypass, and simply being with [[spoiler: William when he died]].
* WorstAid: Francie, if someone has been in a car accident, no matter how mild - it does not mean it's AOK to slap them in the back of the head.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Sunlight turns out to be ineffective against Abhartach]].
-> "There's a vampire on my site!"
''Boys From County Hell'' is a 2021 Irish horror comedy film, directed by Chris Baugh, and co-written by him and Brendan Mullen.
Our setting is the fictional Northern Irish hamlet of Six Mile - a one-horse town whose only claim to fame is Creator/BramStoker supposedly visiting once and getting inspired to write ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' from the local legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhartach Abhartach]]. A pile of stones with a skull on top is a semi popular tourist attraction that brings some excitement...at least until the new bypass gets built over the site. Locals aren't too happy towards local layabout Eugene Moffat (Jack Rowan), because his father is heading the construction project.
As expected, there may also be some grain of truth to the local legends, and building this road may also be a worse idea than imagined. Louisa Harland and John Lynch also star.
!!Tropes:
* ActionSurvivor: Neither Eugene nor Claire are trained fighters, but they handle themselves quite well against the vampires.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: George tries to shoot himself before William kills him. Unfortunately, the shotgun runs out of bullets...]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Claire arrives to help Eugene and Francie out of the basement with the digger]].
* BigFun: SP is plus sized and functions as the PluckyComicRelief.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: The very first scene is an elderly couple bleeding from their eyes, nose and ears as a sign of something supernatural.
* BondingOverMissingParents: Eugene and Claire have a heart-to-heart talking about the former's deceased mother and the latter's father.
* BrickJoke: Francie's first scene is providing a cement mixer for Eugene's planned work on the house. [[spoiler: He and Eugene later escape Abhartach via the cement tunnel upstairs]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** Played with. The skull that Eugene finds in the basement [[spoiler: doesn't prove useful on its own, but it does clue him in that his house is built over Abhartach's lair]].
** The second act taking place in an undertaker's house means there's a ready supply of coffins to [[spoiler: subdue vampire!William]].
** Charlie's bottle of whiskey being found in [[spoiler: George's van clues them in that he's responsible]].
* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler: Abhartach turns out not to be killed by sunlight. Eugene then notes in the epilogue that the original Dracula wasn't killed by sunlight either]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Paulie, William's mother, [[spoiler: allows herself to be killed by her vampirized son]].
* DisappearedDad: Claire's died when she was only seven, due to an accident with a chainsaw.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After [[spoiler: William's death]], it's said that George wants to take the body home. The police lampshade how unusual this is.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: [[spoiler: Abhartach doesn't actually appear until the third act, shows no characteristics and merely wants to drain the town's blood.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Francie naturally chews Eugene out when he starts to despair.
* GilliganCut: Eugene says he's only going out "for one". Cut to him and SP having been out for hours.
* GoryDiscretionShot: It cuts to black right as [[spoiler: William kills George]].
* GrimUpNorth: Six Mile Hill is located in Ulster, judging from the accents on everyone.
* HillbillyHorrors: The action takes place in an extremely rural setting.
* HollywoodHealing: [[spoiler: Francie limps on a broken leg with the bone sticking out, even after being dropped on it]].
* HourglassPlot: Eugene takes a job with his father to finance a potential move to Australia, while Claire was presumably going to stay in Ireland even when William planned to move. [[spoiler: The ending shows Claire emigrating, while Eugene decides to stay]].
* TheIgor: [[spoiler: George purposefully turns Charlie into this in the hopes of stopping construction]].
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** A digger is utilised to keep vampire!Charlie buried.
** [[spoiler: Your father's severed leg makes for quite a good one against a vampire]].
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The local undertaker's son is the one who becomes a vampire]].
* ItsAllMyFault: It's lampshaded that Eugene has a tendency to blame himself for everything that's gone wrong, even though Francie and George are more directly responsible.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** The Stoker's landlord kicks Eugene and SP out purely because the town blames them [[spoiler: for William's death]] and the impending bypass.
** William's mother Pauline is nothing but hostile towards Eugene, and even [[spoiler: foils their attempts to kill his vampire self]].
** Francie is cranky and rarely goes a scene without complaining about something.
* MissingMom: Eugene's passed away shortly before the story starts.
* MistakenForRacist: Invoked. Eugene calls the local guard and tries to warn him about a possible vampire walking around by claiming he has "dark skin", exploiting the typical casual racism often found in Irish small towns. He ends up getting a lecture about how "welcoming" Six Mile Hill is.
* InstantExpert: Claire proves quite adept at operating a digger after leaving her job at The Stoker.
* OffingTheOffspring: An accidental example. [[spoiler: George's wild boar gores William to death while he's crossing the field]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: John Lynch's accent slips from scene to scene.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler: You become one by getting cut with one of the stones on Abhartach's grave, are impossible to kill and can only be trapped underground. Sunlight also doesn't work]].
* RatedMForManly: Francie is a walking parody of the typical country Irish hardman.
* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler: William is killed shortly after announcing a move to Australia]].
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Vampire!William kills both his parents to feed]].
* ShirtlessScene: Eugene gets a ShowerOfAngst that's interrupted by Francie to reprimand him.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler: SP getting killed results in a very sombre third act]].
* SkewedPriorities: When confronted with vampire!Charlie walking around while still impaled, Francie can only wail that his "new pole" is what the impaling was done with.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: A balance. While there are numerous comedy breaks and snarking to lighten the mood, the horror of the situation is mostly played straight.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Claire is the most prominent woman in the story, playing TheChick in a group of four males.
* SupernaturalProofFather: Francie is in complete denial about anything supernatural happening, even when Charlie is shrugging off being stabbed.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer completely spoils that the movie is about vampires, and [[spoiler: sunlight doesn't kill Abhartach]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: George turned Charlie into a vampire to stop Abhartach from escaping]].
* WorldOfJerkass: The majority of Six Mile Hill residents seem quite rude and abrasive. Eugene in particular gets NoSympathy for merely being the son of the construction worker spearheading the new bypass, and simply being with [[spoiler: William when he died]].
* WorstAid: Francie, if someone has been in a car accident, no matter how mild - it does not mean it's AOK to slap them in the back of the head.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler: Sunlight turns out to be ineffective against Abhartach]].
