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All You Need Is Death

Play trailer Poster for All You Need Is Death 2023,  1h 31m,  Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 88% 25 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
88% Tomatometer 25 Reviews Popcornmeter
A young couple, who are a part of a secret organization, travel at night with the desire to discover forbidden knowledge. They believe that living, modern alchemy is contained in old, forgotten songs. When they find an elderly, mysterious woman who sings songs that have never been heard before, they open the door to an ancient evil and madness.

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Roger Luckhurst Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025
All You Need Is Death tends to stay in placeless urban settings and abandoned institutional buildings in anonymous edgelands. It is all the better for ringing the changes on those tropes. Go to Full Review
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas AWFJ.org Jun 7, 2025
Duane doesn’t so much direct this film as he orchestrates it, and something about its ethereal beats render it a movie that you feel in an almost visceral way as much as you process intellectually Go to Full Review
Donald Clarke Irish Times Apr 19, 2024
4/5
All You Need Is Death, craggy and rough-edged, may be in constant conversation with the distant past, but it also puts up signposts to the future Go to Full Review
John Noonan FILMINK (Australia) Oct 22, 2024
13/20
to be commended for not spoon-feeding the audience come the final denouement. If you’re looking for something to pick away at long after the credits have rolled, this may tickle you in the right spot. Everyone else might be left wanting. Go to Full Review
Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana What a Scream Podcast Sep 3, 2024
4/5
...audiences watch in horror its inevitable journey to a hellish end where the old ways and those who have previously ruled over the land, return to devour the modern world. Go to Full Review
Ray Pride Newcity Jul 4, 2024
9/10
Folktales and folk music are imprinted with powers that ought to be unlocked more often, at least when with the intensity that Duane commands. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Paul Duane

Director

Olwen Fouéré

Rita Concannon

Simone Collins

Anna

Charlie Maher

Aleks

Sarah Burns

The Young Queen

Catherine Siggins

Agnes

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All You Need Is Death

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Movie Info

Synopsis A young couple, who are a part of a secret organization, travel at night with the desire to discover forbidden knowledge. They believe that living, modern alchemy is contained in old, forgotten songs. When they find an elderly, mysterious woman who sings songs that have never been heard before, they open the door to an ancient evil and madness.
Director
Paul Duane
Producer
Paul Duane
Screenwriter
Paul Duane, Paul Duane
Production Co
1185 Films
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 31m
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