What is Unwelcome about?

The movie, also based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay, follows couple Maya (played by Game Of Thrones’ Hannah John-Kamen) and Jamie (played by Great Expectations’ Douglas Booth). They idealistically swap city life for the tranquility of the Irish countryside but it’s safe to say that their search for peace doesn’t go entirely to plan.

They find themselves unwelcome in their new surroundings and find out that the wood at the bottom of their garden is actually home to aforementioned deadly goblins.

The goblins are actually Redcaps, a piece of Anglo-Scottish folklore that director Jon Wright wove into the plotline with his Irish heritage and interests in mystical creatures. Speaking to Empire about the film, Wright says: “My grandfather, who was an Irish farmer, believed in fairies.

“He used to say that he’d tried to build a wall at the foot of his garden, but every morning when he got up, it had been knocked down. He believed it was being built on fairy land, so he couldn’t have it there. And I had a book of fairy tales, Grimm fairy tales, in my grandfather’s house, which I always used to read when I went to stay. I’ve always been fascinated by myths and legends, and the sort of primal way that they tap into human nature.”

Unwelcome: official trailer for the new horror movie starring Derry Girls’ Jamie Lee O’Donnell is here