Outcasts Blu-ray

'The Outcasts' Director: Robert Wynne-Simmons (1982) Starring Mary Ryan and Mick Lally | BFI Flipside Blu-ray | 2K restoration by Irish Film Institute

Scripted and directed by the writer of The Blood on Satan’s Claw, this eerie folklorish tale is set in 19th‑century Ireland amid an isolated rural community where poverty and superstition are rife. An introverted farm girl suspected of witchcraft, discovers a mystical world of the imagination through ‘a wild, ungodly man’. Billed on release as the first Irish feature film in half a century, but hardly seen in the past 40 years. 

Special features:
- Audio commentary by folklore historian and scholar Dr. Diane A. Rodgers
- Video interview with director Robert Wynne-Simmons, revisiting his debut feature
- The Fugitive (1964, 31 mins): Robert Wynne-Simmons first work with an outsider at its heart is a dark tale of violence, guilt and retribution shot on 8mm film against a backdrop of Mods and Rockers on the streets of 1960s Brighton
- Locations featurette with the director
- The Wanderings of Ulick Joyce (1975, 5 mins): A would-be king, banished from his realm for unholy deeds, is doomed to wander old Ireland forever in this distinctive animated short by Gillian Lacey