Despite feeling near identical to the old BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas TV movies of the ’70s (and even being erroneously identified as such in some places online), this is actually an Irish production, and a rather nice one, at that. Very slow-burn, and the quality of the home-taped rip (that is to my knowledge currently the only way to see it) does leave a bit to be desired, but the ending is strong and grim, which is exactly…

Look, I know there are a fair amount of films and shorts that get called “an homage to gialli”, and a lot of times, that means you get the inclusion of a POV black-gloves-holding-a-razor shot (which this has), maybe a few color gels (which this also has!), but that’ll basically be it. It’ll be missing the dreamy [insert Italian equivalent of je ne sais quoi here] that makes it feel like the director gets it on a primal level. Silver…