Conor Barry

Conor Barry’s filmography is honestly kind of wild—he’s not just some random name you spot in the credits and promptly forget. The guy’s got a knack for digging out the stranger, darker corners of the human psyche and splashing it across the screen in a way that sticks. Take “It Is in Us All” from 2022—this one’s a slow-burn, almost hypnotic deep dive into identity and grief, set against the windswept drama of rural Ireland. The story’s not shy about getting under your skin: a Londoner returns to his mother’s homeland after a car crash, and nothing is quite what it seems. The whole vibe’s unsettling—think misty landscapes, simmering family secrets, and characters who say as much with a glance as with words. But Barry didn’t just pop onto the scene with that. Back in 2017, he was behind “The Cured,” a totally different beast—imagine an Ireland that’s just survived a zombie apocalypse, but the real horror is what happens after. The infected are cured, but society’s not exactly rolling out the welcome mat. There’s this gnarly tension: forgiveness versus vengeance, normalcy versus the trauma nobody can quite shake off. Ellen Page (now Elliot Page) leads a cast that’s basically wrestling with the question—can you ever really move on from the worst thing you’ve ever done, or had done to you? Oh, and don’t sleep on “The Hole in the Ground” (2019). Classic Irish folk horror, but a bit more twisted. A single mom and her son move to the countryside, only for things to get real weird—creepy woods, a freaky sinkhole, and a kid who suddenly isn’t quite right. Barry’s fingerprints are all over these stories: unsettling, atmospheric, and just the right amount of messed up.