Caveat is a 2020 Irish horror film written, directed, and edited by Damian Mc Carthy in his feature directorial debut.

[1][2] Starring Johnny French and Leila Sykes, it follows a drifter suffering from partial memory loss who accepts a job to look after a psychologically disturbed woman in a house on a secluded island.

[5] Amnesiac drifter Isaac is hired by his acquaintance and landlord Moe Barrett to look after his niece Olga, who will occasionally go catatonic with little to no warning, putting her at risk as she lives on a remote island.

At the house, Isaac finds that, when lucid, Olga roams around with a crossbow and an eerie toy rabbit with human-like glass eyes and an attached drum.

Taking advantage of her catatonic state in an opportunity to escape, he locks Olga in the harness but she manages to shoot his leg with the crossbow.

The website's critics' consensus reads: "An effective spine-tingler despite clear budget constraints, Caveat suggests a deliciously dark filmmaking future for writer-director Damian McCarthy.

"[14] Guy Lodge, writing for Variety, called the film "more intriguing than it is rewarding," but wrote that "there's enough tingly, tightly-budgeted atmosphere and witty genre gumption [...] to make one wonder what McCarthy could do on a looser, more expensive leash.

"[15] Leslie Felperin of The Guardian gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "McCarthy [sic] plays a fancy cinematic game of hide the lady, swishing the narrative cards around adeptly and finding fresh ways to imbue the material with an incrementally increasing sense of unease.