The Eternal (1998)
Directed by Michael Almereyda
An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch.
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Despite Jim and Nora's spontaneous eruptions of good cheer akin to Dashiell Hammett's detective duo in The Thin Man, Almereyda subtly intertwines an undercurrent of creepy ghost story devices.
"You're going to Ireland to dry out?" asks their bemused but incredulous doctor ( The Exorcist 's late Jason Miller, in a wry cameo.)
Michael Almereyda followed up his Hal Hartley inspired vampire flick Nadja with The Eternal (also known as Trance, also known as Michael Almereyda's The Mummy, depending on who you believe).