A Dublin eldercare worker takes a new assignment mere days after losing her estranged mother, but trauma won't be compartmentalized in Aislinn Clarke's creepily effective second feature. Like its ...

Emma Kiely has been with Collider since 2021 and has been Horror Editor since July 2023. Emma has a degree in English and Film from University College Dublin. For a while, due to pandemic-induced ...

Filmmaker Aislinn Clarke, who became the first Northern Irish woman to direct a horror film with The Devil’s Doorway, reaches another milestone with Fréwaka, a dread-infused folk-horror narrative that ...

The roots of Ireland's collective historical trauma around the Magdalene Laundries — asylums that operated for more than two centuries confining disenfranchised women in the most oppressive of ...

"There is a house under the house." Shudder has released the trailer for an indie Irish folk horror film titled Fréwaka, made by Irish filmmaker Aislinn Clarke. This first premiered at the 2024 ...

Will Sayre is a writer, journalist and critic at Movieweb.com. He has also written and produced entertainment stories at Warner Bros. and Entertainment Studios. Sayre graduated with honors from Boston ...

Production begins in Ireland this week on Fréwaka, a horror film written and directed by Aislinn Clarke. The feature stars Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Bríd Ní Neachtain (The Banshees of Inisherin and ...

Ireland’s ancient and contemporary history has seen it emerge as a wellspring of supernatural and sociopolitical horror in recent years. Paul Duane’s All You Need is Death and Damian McCarthy’s Oddity ...

A moment from one of those buried histories is revealed in an atmospheric prologue at a 1973 wedding. ’Straw-boys’ – sort of traditional costumed performers – gatecrash the event in disguises, ...

Fréwaka, a word taken from the longer Irish word 'fréamhacha', translates to 'roots', which Irish writer-director Aislinn Clarke's sophomore film traverses all manners of. The roots of Ireland's ...

Motherhood, generational trauma, family, mental illness — these are all the ideas you can often find at the center of an Irish horror movie. In Irish horror, the fear tends to stick close to home, ...