By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s the new chiller from the creator of THE DEVIL’S DOORWAY.
Shudder has announced that it will give FRÉWAKA its exclusive streaming debut Friday, April 25 as part of the Halfway to Halloween celebration. Before that, the movie will play at the Boston Underground Film Festival tomorrow, March 20 at 8:15 p.m. Written and directed by Aislinn Clarke, it stars Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain and Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya. The synopsis: “The Irish folk horror follows home care worker Shoo [Monnelly], who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman [Neachtain] 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.”
“We’re honored to give FRÉWAKA, the first-ever Irish-language horror film, an international platform on Shudder,” says Shudder’s Emily Gotto. “With this twist on a traditional haunted house, Aislinn skillfully delivers a bold, provocative, deeply emotional and menacing film that weaves folk horror within an impactful investigation of generational trauma.”
