Alarm (2008 film)

Alarm is a 2008 Irish thriller film written and directed by Gerard Stembridge and starring Ruth Bradley and Aidan Turner.

Overview

Alarm was filmed primarily in Dublin, Ireland. The lead actors are Aidan Turner and Ruth Bradley.

Premise

After witnessing the murder of her father by burglars, Molly is living with friends and seeing a psychiatrist to deal with her panic attacks. She dreams of finding a house where she can live alone. Upon buying her dream house in a Dublin suburb, she gives a house-warming party and one of her friends brings along an old classmate of Molly's, Mal. Molly had fancied Mal during school, and now they become a couple. With a new house and a new boyfriend, things seem perfect.
However, her house is soon burgled again and again, although her neighbours are spared. Molly suspects that someone she knows might be involved.

Cast

Ruth Bradley as Molly
Aidan Turner as Mal
Owen Roe as Joe and Mossie
Tom Hickey as Frank
Anita Reeves as Jessie
Emmet Bergin as Psychiatrist
Alan Howley as Peter
Fionnuala Murphy as Receptionist
Alan Martin Walsh

Release

Alarm was shown at the Irish cinema in 2008. On 30 November 2010 an American DVD was published by the IFC Film studios.

Critical reception

When director and writer Gerard Stembridge introduced Alarm to the audience he said that he had wanted to do a "swan song for the Celtic tiger". Furthermore, he had wanted to create a good old-fashioned thriller. However, critics doubt that he succeeded with this, noting that the plot is predictable. Many scenes were filmed at night and the action during these scenes is hard to see.