Fréwaka

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.

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

Tara Breathnach

as The Mother

Jim Cunningham

as Seán

Peadar Cox

as Bus Driver

Liv O'Donoghue

as Receptionist

Reviews

FolknHell

*Fréwaka* contains almost everything you might reasonably order from the folk-horror catalogue: an isolated Irish village, an old woman barricaded behind iron, a fairy tree hung with offerings, hostile locals, a goat, Catholic iconography, inherited trauma and something ancient waiting for a family ...

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