Up next from The Devil’s Doorway filmmaker Aislinn Clarke is Irish-language folk horror movie Fréwaka. A chilling new trailer has arrived ahead of the film’s debut as part of Shudder’s Halfway to Halloween celebration. The horror movie is set to premiere on Shudder on April 25, 2025. Fréwaka follows “home care worker Shoo, who is […]
Up next from The Devil’s Doorway filmmaker Aislinn Clarke is Irish-language folk horror movie Fréwaka. A chilling new trailer has arrived ahead of the film’s debut as part of Shudder’s Halfway to Halloween celebration.
The horror movie is set to premiere on Shudder on April 25, 2025.
Fréwaka follows “home care worker Shoo, who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.”
Check out the new trailer and poster below, indicating a claustrophobic folk horror movie ahead.
Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain and Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya star in the film written and directed by Clarke.
“We’re honored to giveFréwaka, the first-ever Irish language horror film, an international platform on Shudder,” said Emily Gotto,Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Production at Shudder. “With this twist on a traditional haunted house, Aislinn skillfully deliversa bold, provocative, deeply emotional and menacing film that weaves folk horror within an impactful investigation of generational trauma.”
Fréwaka is produced by Diarmuid Lavery for DoubleBand Films (Doineann) and Patrick O’Neill for Wildcard (Kneecap), and executive produced by Máire Ní Chonláin, Deirbhile Ní Churraighín, Greg Martin and Michael Hewitt.
