Television: The story’s púca, an ancient spirit who escapes from an old VHS tape, is genuinely creepy, a kid’s mascot as reimagined by Clive Barker
The Unreal: RTÉ’s family-friendly caper adds a dash of Japanese horror to bring ancient Irish mythology into the present day
That is, unless we count kids’ TV, which aeons ago gave us Fortycoats and, most notably, the underappreciated example of hauntology that is Wanderly Wagon, a piece of shoestring 1970s weirdovision which stumbled into an accidental eeriness. The Unreal is unlikely to win any awards. It’s an RTÉ Sunday-afternoon drama with dialogue and acting to match. But the púca is genuinely creepy, a kid’s mascot as reimagined by Clive Barker.
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