The savvy hero has learned from bitter experience that the business about vampires dissolving at dawn was “invented by some German director 20 years after the book was written” but a workable new set of rules for the arch-fiend has been written.

Combining genuine emotional stakes, biting black humour and enough blood and dismembered limbs to satisfy even seasoned gorehounds, Chris Baugh's terrific, unorthodox vampire flick has got it where it Counts.

The homegrown comedy horror genre is given a revitalising lift with this witty and smartly played yarn about an unearthed vampire terrorising a tiny rural community in Northern Ireland.

This spirited horror-comedy, that is as much a monster movie as it is a vampire flick, might not offer much new, but it has a good time doing it nonetheless.