Ciaran Foy Archives

Citadel (2012)

Rating: ★★★

May 7, 2013Mutant Children of the Housing Projects

Irish-British production that depicts the social housing estates of Glasgow as a desolate netherworld inhabited by mutant children. Undeniably effective but the depiction of children of urban ghettos requires you to tune out any liberal instincts

Director: Ciaran Foy

Actors: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson, …

Category: Horror

7 May 20132 January 2026 by Roog

Sinister 2 (2015)

Rating: ★★

Aug 29, 2015Hauntings and Ritual Killings

The original had some undeniably effective jumps but suffered from a lack of explanatory rationale but this makes for a shaky house of cards when the same arbitrary happenings are extended for a sequel

Director: Ciaran Foy

Actors: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Collins, …

Category: Horror

29 August 201515 November 2025 by Roog

Eli (2019)

Rating: ★

May 29, 2020Sinister Medical Institute/Possible Hauntings

This has an intriguing set up involving a child with an autoimmune condition that makes him allergic to everyday air and his journey to a sinister medical institute, before a completely WTF twist

Director: Ciaran Foy

Actors: Kelly Reilly, Max Martini, Charlie Shotwell, Lili Taylor, …

Category: Horror

29 May 202030 January 2026 by Roog

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 24, 2020Haunted House

Mike Flanagan follows up the hit of The Haunting of Hill House with a mini-series that adapts another classic work The Turn of the Screw out into a similar kind of cross-generational ghost story. The results are extraordinary

Director: Axelle Carolyn, Ben Howling, Ciaran Foy, E.L. Katz, Liam Gavin, Mike Flanagan, Yolanda Ramke

Actors: Victoria Pedretti, Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ameilie Bea Smith, …

Category: Horror

24 October 202018 May 2026 by Roog