Bríd Ní Neachtain

3 weeks ago | collider.com | Emma Kiely |Aislinn Clarke |Clare Monnelly |Bríd Ní Neachtain

Motherhood, generational trauma, family, mental illness — these are all the ideas you can often find at the center of an Irish horror movie. In Irish horror, the fear tends to stick close to home, with folklore integrated to create an analogy for very real, sometimes even mundane, ideas at the movie’s core.

1 month ago | flickeringmyth.com | Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya |Bríd Ní Neachtain |Clare Monnelly |Amie Cranswick

Shudder has shared a poster and trailer for the Irish folk horror Fréwaka ahead of its arrival on the streamer next month. Written and directed by Aislinn Clarke, the film follows Shoo (Clare Monnelly), a nursing student plagued from past trauma, who finds herself caring for an elderly patient haunted by own experiences of her time spent in a Catholic asylum. Joining Monnelly in the cast are Bríd Ní Neachtain and Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya.

Aug 9, 2024 | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Bríd Ní Neachtain |Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya

Fréwaka (from the Irish ‘Fréamhacha’, meaning ‘roots’) is a chilling Irish-language folk horror that not only draws inspiration from Ireland’s rich well of creepy folklore, traditions and mythology, but serves as a startling rumination on the cruel, ill-treatment of women throughout its history.

Aug 9, 2024 | cineuropa.org | Bríd Ní Neachtain |Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya |Clare Monnelly

- El segundo largometraje de Aislinn Clarke es un título poderoso que nos adentra en la psique de un personaje atormentado que se enfrenta a los horrores de su propio pasadoEste artículo está disponible en inglés.

Aug 8, 2024 | cineuropa.org | Bríd Ní Neachtain |Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya |Clare Monnelly |Muriel Del Don

- Irish writer-director Aislinn Clarke’s second powerful feature takes us inside the psyche of a tormented character facing up to the horrors of her pastFollowing the success of her debut feature, The Devil's Doorway, Irish writer-director Aislinn Clarke is once again embracing the obscurity of genre cinema, offering up an incredibly courageous second film which is both gloomy and abnormally bright, and a one-way journey to the darker side of being human.