Fréwaka
Directed by Aislinn Clarke2025 1h 43mHorror
6.196%
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.
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Fréwaka Ratings & Reviews
- thereelvoiceApril 30, 2025Fréwaka is an effective folk horror that plays on atmosphere and mood more than bloody jump scares. Layers are peeled back as ideas of trauma bonding and mental health are explored. It makes for an uneasy watch as we all wonder what is coming for us when we finally reach an elderly stage in life. And moving through the narrative, Fréwaka pushes the viewer to think about unresolved familial strife and how this may carry into something ugly. This film is eerie, not just because of its imagery, score and tense atmosphere. It’s scary because it nudges you into the feeling that your unresolved trauma has unforeseen consequences.
- Matthias_812April 29, 2025Taking a page out of something from what Ari Aster would do with some resemblance to The Dark and The Wicked. Fréwaka boasts a heavy mood centralized around trauma and grief. I understand these subjects in recent horror are starting to run thin so that's up to your own will how much you'll allow to seep into your mind. Regardless it can't be denied that there are some real effective uncomfortable feelings evoked when watching this. Tension and atmosphere continually brood backed by eerie soundscapes making you question reality within the film. I have many unanswered questions and it'll take awhile for me to digest before wrapping my brain around this one if at all.
