After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. With no memory of the murder, Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of Sean is to help him dig.
Cinematography
The bog becomes a character—beautiful and hungry.
Direction
Tohill brothers squeeze 97 minutes into eternity.
Acting
Dunford and Cranitch: two men sharing a grave.
Director
Andy Tohill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Tohill brothers shot in actual County Antrim peat bogs; Moe Dunford developed trench foot. Method acting or punishment? You decide.
The film belongs to a wave of 'bog body' Irish cinema—land that preserves and conceals, where the Troubles' unresolved dead find metaphorical cousins in personal crimes.
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