Celebrate Halloween with 10 great Irish horror movies - SEE PHOTOS

"The Eclipse" based on a story by Wexford's Billy Roche. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346961/ "In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts."

On the centennial of the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula, an American TV special aired on the Stoker's life. It was an eye-opening examination of how certain incidents in the Victorian Dublin of Stoker's youth could have influenced his conception of Dracula the Vampire. For example, Stoker's family lived next to a Dublin graveyard, and occasionally persons about to be buried after presumed death due to disease would rescucitate, thus yielding the template of the dead awakening in the coffin. I forget other Dublin connections with the Dracula plot, but the story is quite interesting, showing more "Irish" influence in the tale than one would suspect.

When I was a child, we'd watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" every week. The movies were shown in installments and I still remember the banshee's scream that had me crying in my Dad's arms. He laughed and told me the banshee was only in Ireland, so I had nothing to worry about. I didn't see it again for about 35 years and that scream still raises the hair on my arms.