2025 · drama · fantasy · horror
Fréwaka
Directed by Aislinn Clarke1h 43m2025
Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.
Our read: Fréwaka (2025) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal drama · fantasy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- surreal
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“You want Irish folk horror about trauma, folklore and a reclusive woman's fears.”
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