Film

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All You Need is Death is built around dreadful moods and insidious manifestations rather than cheap jump scares

All You Need Is Death

Directed by: Paul Duane

Nationwide, 16, rating: ***

The Irish filmmaker Paul Duane has been making episodic television and feature documentaries for more than two decades, with his recent non-fiction work concentrating on musicians and musicology.

The disturbing Very Extremely Dangerous told the hardboiled story of 1950s rocker turned outlaw Jerry McGill, while the life-affirming While You Live, Shine followed a record collector tracing the origins of the world’s oldest-known ...