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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aislinn Clarke is unafraid to confront the harsh and horrific realities of Ireland’s past. In her debut feature film The Devil’s Doorway, she tackled the horrors of the Magdalene Laundries. Now, in ...

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 ...

J.R.R. Tolkien famously said that “cellar door” is the most beautiful pairing of words in the English language. You’re not likely to think so fondly of the phrase, however, while watching “Fréwaka,” ...