Fantasist

Ultra-rare Irish movie (OK it's finally out on DVD!) about a serial killer in Dublin. The story is rubbish and so is most of the film but it's an interesting effort that few have seen. Most of the scenes are well done but just don't cut together. Some famous musicians appear (Donal Lunny, Honor Heffernan) and in a nightclub scene Brit funkers Level 42 play live! The rest of the movie bores because you won't care who the killer is. Some strong violence too. The interesting parts are the contrast between the rural areas and Dublin, the wealthy middle-class settings (so much for the '80s recession!), the use of a white horse (a staple image in later Irish films), the use of a fancy car (ditto), the locations used in Dublin from twenty five years ago (a single girl living above a pub on the quays!), and the general tackiness of the era (a girl asks a guy to escort her out to the front door of a nightclub so some sleazeball won't follow her). This is the kind of movie that will never get mentioned in an Irish filmschool but is an interesting effort from the director of The Wicker Man.