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Fréwaka
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Fréwaka is a 2024 Irish folk horror film written and directed by Aislinn Clarke, starring Bríd Ní Neachtain, Clare Monnelly, and Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya.
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7.1Care 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.
Cast
- Clare Monnelly as Shoo
- Bríd Ní Neachtain as Peig
- Alexandra Bustryzhickaya as Mila
- Olga Wehrly as Deirdre
- Grace Collender as Young Peig
- Mícheál Óg Lane as Daithí
Themes
- goat
- agoraphobia
- religion
- death of mother
- folklore
- mysterious
- traumatic childhood
- folk horror
- irish folklore
- supernatural horror
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Republic of Ireland
- Original language
- Irish
- Producer
- Pat O'Neill
- Duration
- 103
- FilmAffinity ID
- 715862
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- publication date
- 2025-03-21
- title
- Fréamhacha
- distributed by
- Shudder
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Fréwaka is a 2024 Irish folk horror film written and directed by Aislinn Clarke, starring Bríd Ní Neachtain, Clare Monnelly, and Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya.
==Premise== A young woman named Siubhán ("Shoo") is a home care worker assigned to look after an elderly woman named Peig. Reluctant to be cared for, Peig shows signs of superstitious behavior as well as a belief that preternatural entities have abducted her in the past.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fréwaka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.