IT CAME FROM CONNEMARA!
dir. Brian Reddin, 2014
Ireland. 59 min.
In English

Spectacle audiences are undoubtedly at least somewhat familiar with legendary independent film producer, the “King of B Movies,” the inimitable Roger Corman. However, his time spent making his brand of notoriously fun, low-budget pictures over on the Emerald Isle is an era that has been lost to cult cinema history. IT CAME FROM CONNEMARA! tells the story of Concorde Anois, Corman’s short-lived production company that operated out of Connemara, County Galway in the late 1990s. Invited by the Irish government to help develop filmmaking in the west of the country, Concorde Anois employed hundreds of people (most of whom were brand new to filmmaking and film production) in its few years and released around 20 features, all shot in Connemara with Irish crews and Irish actors.

Featuring interviews with cast and crew members at Concorde Anois (including Roger Corman himself), as well as behind-the-scenes footage from the action, horror, and sci-fi films produced during the studio’s run, IT CAME FROM CONNEMARA! tells the story of the thrills, chills, local controversies, and movie-making mayhem of Corman’s five gloriously gruesome years in Ireland.