THE BODY & BLOOD PROJECT
The Creative Challenge
I had the idea for a horror story about a young Irish country girl who transmogrifies into a folk famine anti-hero, The Vigilante Cannibal Nun, during The Great Irish Famine.
She eats the colonisers and gives the swags to the poor, thinking she is saving the world, when in fact she is destroying her soul.
The Story of The Vigilante Cannibal Nun
Carnivorous Trauma Bonds Never Die
The Audience
The Body & Blood is an unorthodox horror vision of The Famine with a huge potential audience. Irish women and men, living in Ireland and all around the world.
I didn’t want to go down the traditional route of applying for funding and waiting for something that may never happen. I wanted to take action.
Instead, I created and germinated a culture of The Vigilante Cannibal Nun.
I knew it would take years. But I jumped in.
My Approach - Online Performance Films
Firstly, I shot a series of performance films on my mobile phone, where I told the story of The Vigilante Cannibal Nun in song and verse.
I launched The Body & Blood with an ongoing marketing and messaging campaign, through social media and its own website.
This film alone, Episode 1, initially got 23K plays with an advertising campaign on Instagram.
One Woman Show Theatre Tour
Then I took The Body & Blood on a UK and Ireland tour as a live one woman show, starting with VAULT Festival in London and continuing to The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, The Open House Festival and The Lyric Lounge in Belfast and Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin.
The reviews were wonderful.
Word was getting out.
Gripping stage presence has you hooked from start to finish. ****
Theatre & Tonic
Spread The Love
I mean, RAGE.
Podcast
I continued to grow the culture of The Vigilante Cannibal Nun, with my eye still on the prize of making it as a gothic horror feature film.
I launched the Vigilante Cannibal Nun as Agony Aunt Comedy Horror Podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify in 2024.
The Galway Film Fleadh
I won The Pitching Competition at The Galway Film Fleadh in 2025. Now, I am in talks with NI Screen, in Northern Ireland, discussing the development of The Body & Blood as a feature film.
And I am working with Mental Pictures, Ireland.
Let’s go!
Check out The Body & Blood online at https://www.thebodyandblood.co.uk
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