Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill

Directed by Zoe Kavanagh

Runtime: 1:39:00

Country of Origin: Ireland

Taryn Barker is just your average everyday monster slaying, wise-cracking, demon hunter on the hunt for two pieces of an ancient artifact, The Necrox. Standing in her way is Elysia Cronika, the CEO of Illumini Industries and a member of the Satanic sect The Stygian. 

Cronika plans to obtain the Necrox to unleash Hell on Earth. The problem is Taryn is hard to kill and with every demon sent to eliminate the demon hunter getting wiped out, she gets closer to saving the day.

As a last resort, Cronika sends Taryn through time alongside a band of innocent teenagers to the year 1987 and now Taryn needs to protect the group from a notorious summer camp slasher Lucien Krull, whilst finding the Necrox and a way back home to the present. 

Director Biography

I began studying film in 2006 in BCFE, Ballyfermot. My first college course was a FETAC Level 5 in TV & Film. The following year I studied Cinematography in the same college before going onto do a Bachelors Honors Degree in Film & Television at the National Film School, IADT in Ireland. During this time I was directing music videos for local bands and then popular gothic bands such as Clan of Xymox and Julien-K.

For my first feature film I wanted to make something big and ambitious. I created a character called Taryn Barker, a badass anti-hero who would stop at nothing to find the one who killed her sister and slay any demon that got in her way. The film became ‘Taryn Barker: Demon Hunter’ aka ‘Demon Hunter’. It went onto win over 15 international awards including Best Horror film and the Fright Night Film Festival and Best Director at the Horrorhound Film Festival. In 2017 the film was released around the world and it lead to the development of a sequel. During the period between both films I directed an award winning drama short film called ‘Tides’ that dealt with the themes of depression, directed the fan film video game based short film ‘Dead by Daylight: Halloween’ and many other music videos.

Now with ‘Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill’ at the start of its film festival circuit it has already won 3 Best Horror film awards and a Best Screenplay award from Stockholm City Film Festival, London Indie Film Festival and It’s Always Late TV Movie Awards. The film is a love letter to all of the fun movies of my childhood from ‘Army of Darkness’, ‘Big Trouble in Little China’, ‘Friday the 13th: Jason Lives’ to even videogames such as ‘DMC Devil May Cry’. I wanted to make a film that showcased my style in different genres and it’s exciting to see where the road takes this fun film and hopefully it can eventually lead to making another adventure with my favourite character Taryn Barker!