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Fréwaka (2024)
3K
Original name: Fréamhacha
Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, melancholic, art house, mysterious, independent film, dark fantasy, sinister
Plot:
folk horror, agoraphobia, folklore, trauma, lesbian, isolation, lgbtq, paranoia, character study, haunting, memory, elderly woman, slow burn, supernatural horror, nursing, religion, refugee, traumatic childhood, goat, death of mother, student, past, body horror
Time:
contemporary
Place:
dublin ireland
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