Caroline E. Farrell's Blog, page 20
January 16, 2016
The Librarian’s Cellar: Little Sister Death
To find his muse, writer David Binder, under pressure to produce another successful novel, moves hispregnant wife and daughterto a renowned haunted farmhouse, where the legend of the Bell Witch still rankles with the locals. Set amongst the landscape of a rural farm in Tennessee, the house is filled with secrets that Binder envelopes in his quest for research and the spark of a bestseller. Cut between the horror of experience of the previous inhabitants of the house and Binder’s unravelling,...
January 10, 2016
The Librarian’s Cellar: VIVA
This film should come with a warning: make sure to wear waterproof mascara!
Seriously though – no surprise at all thatit is put forward for nomination for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.With Benicio Del Toro on board as executive producer, the film is written by Irish Screenwriter, who also plays a cameo role. Directed by , produced by, and , [Treasure Films] and anchoredby a superb cast of actors, collective...
The Librarian’s Cellar: Viva
This film should come with a warning: make sure to wear waterproof mascara!
Seriously though – no surprise at all thatit is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.With Benicio Del Toro on board as executive producer, the film is written by Irish Screenwriter, who also plays a cameo role. Directed by , produced by, and , [Treasure Films] and anchoredby a superb cast of actors, collectively they have crea...
January 4, 2016
The Librarian’s Cellar: Hail, Jones, full of Grace
Grace Jones epitomizes the avant-garde movement of fashion and music in the 70’s and 80’s. Iconic and influentialfor her striking gender-defying beauty and theatrical flair for all things experimental, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs is as honest as it is compulsive – an insightful glimpse into her extraordinary journey from early beginnings in Jamaica to the heights of fame in Paris, New York, London and indeed, the world! Enduring a childhood that was controlled by a brutal disciplinarian, yet...
December 13, 2015
12 imperfectly perfect observations…and not just for Christmas!
December 6, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Slade House
Slade House
At first you won’t want to leave. Later, you’ll find that you can’t.
Every nine years a guest is summoned to Slade House, behind the small black iron door, with no handle and no key – and every nine years, that guest narrates their experience as they enter into the strange and bewitching world of a house that isn’t really there, or is it? Where shape and time shift, and no-one is who they seem to be. Or are they?
I highly recommend Slade House as a quick and entertaining read, f...
November 26, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: The Grownup
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn,is a story about ayoung woman, making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic – with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side – making a decent wage by telling people what they want to hear, until that is, she meets Susan Burke, who lives in a Victorian house, Carterbrook Manor, with her husband, son and stepson, Miles…
If you like a good chiller with a contemporary punch, you will enjoy The Grownup. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Short Storyin 2015,it is...
November 9, 2015
Sticking with it…
In the same week that In Ribbons won the JURYPRIZE at the Worcestershire Film Festival, UK, I am also very honoured to be chosen as Author of the Monthby the lovely people at Author Shout.
Sometimes this writing journey is hard as hell. Sometimes it is cushionedby the occasionalsprinkle of magic. Whatever…as long astruth seeps out from the words that I choose to make meaning from, I’m sticking with it!
November 6, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Niall Queenan
Niall Queenan is a screenwriter from the North West who currently lives in Dublin and graduated from the National Film School at IADT in 2012 with a Masters in Screenwriting. He was recently awarded an emerging screenwriter talent development mentorship from the Irish Film Board, won the gold prize in the thriller/horror category of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards for his feature thriller script NEXT OF KIN, and the bronze prize in the thriller/horror category of the World Series...
November 1, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Crimson Peak
This Hallewe’en, I entered the labyrinth of Allerdale Hall…
If you, like me, lovemovies like Rebecca, The Turn of the Screw, The Haunting and The Woman in Black, and ifyou enjoy the tradition of Hammer House of Horrors –romance, murder, good old-fashioned melodrama and all sprinkled with a touch of the supernatural, you will love Crimson Peak. Guillermo del Toro, master ofblending the undead with the beautifuland the grotesque, has created a stunningly visual feastfor what is essentially, a g...
