They are troubled by a warning from Niamh, an old friend of Jamie's aunt, that they should leave an offering of liver at a door of the house's back garden every night for the Red Caps that live in the forest, but accept it as a harmless superstition.

As Jamie and Maya spend more time in the house, they are troubled to learn that Maeve lost a child herself, a daughter who disappeared when the girl was barely two years old, and the body was never found.

That night, Jamie has a confrontation with Aisling and Killian in the pub about what happened to their brother, while Maya is visited by a Red Cap that presents her with Eoin's head in a plastic bag.

She and her daughter return to the house and Jamie watches in horrified awe as Maya is "baptised" with the blood and skull of the dead woman, apparently being proclaimed as the new "Mother Redcap".

It has prosthetics by Shaune Harrison with Paul Catling on creature design and the visual effects supervisor Paddy Eason who all worked together on Wright's previous film Grabbers.

The site's consensus reads: "Unwelcome's tonal and pacing issues prevent this rural horror outing from reaching its full potential, but it's still frequently fun".

[13] Little White Lies reviewed the film as saying "Anyone who has seen director Jon Wright's previous boozy creature comedy Grabbers might expect Unwelcome to resemble the madcap chaos of Gremlins or Ghoulies, [but] the tone is more sober….the psychological and the supernatural similarly abut one another as two sides of the same divide".

On that basis alone, then, we should be grateful for Unwelcome...this is a film that benefits greatly from the practical execution of its puckish perils, a glorious hark back to an era when tiny imps really did look like they could scratch your eyes out.