High Spirits (1988)
Feb 27, 2003Haunted Castle Comedy
Neil Jordan has shown himself as an excellent director elsewhere but seems to have little aptitude for comedy when it comes to this raucous knockabout farce about a haunted castle
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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Jun 19, 2001Vampires/Anne Rice Adaptation
Most of the attention this drew at the time was over the controversy of casting Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat; otherwise Neil Jordan conducts an excellent adaptation of the Anne Rice novel
The Butcher Boy (1997)
Jun 19, 1999Disturbed Irish Childhood
Neil Jordan makes a film about an abusive childhood that actually ends up asking us to cheer on the central character's emergence as a murderer. Maybe the most cheerfully entertaining film ever made about child abuse.
In Dreams (1999)
Apr 19, 1999Clairvoyance Thriller
In one of his more mainstream films, Neil Jordan takes a leaf from Eyes of Laura Mars as Annette Bening gains psychic insight into the mind of serial killer Robert Downey Jr
Byzantium (2012)
Nov 4, 2013Vampire Film
Neil Jordan makes a vampire film that stands at marked contrast to Twilight and Jordan's earlier Interview with the Vampire. Jordan stamps the class of a mature filmmaker on what might have been a lesser work in another's hands
The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Sep 25, 2017Victorian Serial Killer
This comes with a captivating tagline "Before The Ripper, fear had another name" and misleadingly suggests it is based on another true-life Victorian serial killer. This refuses to be the police procedural you expect
The Assessment (2024)
Jun 27, 2025Future Couple Undergo Assessment for a Child
An hilariously black, deadpan film set in a future as a couple undergo assessment for whether they are fit to be parents. This involves Alicia Vikander moving into the house and play-acting being a child with absolutely chaotic effect