Outcast (2010)

It tells the tale of Petronella (a Scottish/Romany girl) and Fergal (her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend). As their doomed relationship plays out, a Beast stalks the estate, killing ... See full summary »

Director:

Colm McCarthy

Writers:

Colm McCarthy, Tom K. McCarthy

Stars:

Kate Dickie, Niall Bruton, Hanna Stanbridge

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kate Dickie	...	Mary
Niall Bruton	...	Fergal
Hanna Stanbridge	...	Petronella
Josh Whitelaw	...	Tomatsk
Therese Bradley	...	Jitta
James Nesbitt	...	Cathal
Ciarán McMenamin	...	Liam
Sean McCarthy	...	Old Hands
Fiona O'Shaughnessy	...	Niamh
Christine Tremarco	...	Housing Officer
Karen Gillan	...	Ally
Andrew Martin	...	James
Chelsea M. Matthews	...	Sadie (as Chelsea Matthews)
Daniel Portman	...	Paul (as Daniel Porter)
Wendy Wason	...	Barmaid (as Wendy Wasson)

Storyline

It tells the tale of Petronella (a Scottish/Romany girl) and Fergal (her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend). As their doomed relationship plays out, a Beast stalks the estate, killing locals, working its way towards our protagonists. Meanwhile Cathal and Liam, two mysterious travellers from Ireland use ritual and magic on a blood hunt. Mary, Fergal's mother performs ritual and magic of her own. As Cathal comes face to face with Mary in a vicious finale we know one thing: the Beast must die.

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Plot Keywords:

male frontal nudity | one word title | bare chested male | male nudity | male full frontal nudity | 

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Taglines:

Evil Runs In The Blood

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, sexuality, graphic nudity and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [UK]

Country:

UK Ireland

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 December 2010 (UK)

Also Known As:

Outcast

Filming Locations:

Jarnac Court, Dalkeith, UK

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$179

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bankside Films, Bórd Scannán na hÉireann, Scottish Screen

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This movie consists of 4 Game of Thrones (2011) actors, including Kate Dickie (Mary), Daniel Portman (Paul), James Cosmo (Laird) and Ian Whyte (Beast). Each of them respectively play Lysa Arryn, Podrick Payne, Jeor Mormont and Wun Wun.

User Reviews

Cauldron of angst and desire

This was really just meant to be a filler film for me at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, I just thought I'd cram in as many films as possible and went along to a late night showing of Outcast.

It was actually really really good, and compared to the pap you get to see these days if you turn up at the cinema expecting horror fare, extraordinary. Successful horror plunges deep into fears that we have, here there's some really good stuff about sexual insecurity and fear of one's own burgeoning sexuality during adolescence, fear of pregnancy, fear of homelessness, anger about parental domination.

It's a story about Mary (played by Kate Dickie - the lead in Red Road) and her adolescent son Fergal (Niall Bruton). They're on the run and hiding in an Edinburgh housing estate. The mother clearly has supernatural capabilities and is being hunted by Cathal (James Nesbitt) who has been temporarily given similar supernatural capabilities. It's a ritualistic hunt. Nesbitt usually plays debonair blarney-spouting roles but is cast against type as the baddie here, which is quite refreshing.

There's some sort of underground feudalism going on as well, as Cathal crosses territory and has to ask a gentleman called The Laird for permission to hunt on his grounds. Maybe some secret yearnings for the feudal past going on here. What works well with all the supernatural stuff is that it's hinted that there are much larger issues at play, but these are left as mysterious.

Fergal wants to hang with Petronella, a lovely wee lassie with a short skirt who is intent on laying him from the moment he arrives on the estate. There's a good young love story here and as well a good sex scene. Mary is very keen for Fergal to stay away from Petronella and insistently suppresses him. There are some very creepy scenes where Mary dominates Fergal and warns him away from girls.

The special effects scenes work really well, but I don't want to spoil those for you, I would just say though that I felt they produced a good personification of some of the fears I've been referring to.

Anyway this is a film I would describe as a cauldron of angst and desire, I think it deserves to be seen, the audience applauded spontaneously at the end, if it didn't at least get a wide release in Scotland, that would be a tragedy. Walking back to my hotel that night (a long walk) was damned spooky given I was in the location of the movie!