Nothing is more terrifying than the dingy basement of a big, old house. Think about films like The Conjuring, The Silence Of The Lambs, Barbarian, the list goes on. In her new film, Fréwaka, writer and director Aislinn Clarke adds to that expanding canon with a heart-wrenching folk horror nightmare told almost entirely in the Irish language.

In our exclusive clip from the film, we have a tease at what lurks in this particularly nasty basement…

But first, read the film’s full synopsis:

Irish folkloric terror awaits in this remarkably atmospheric bone-chiller about a care worker who, after suffering a personal tragedy, leaves her Dublin home for a remote assignment in the north country to look after an elderly shut-in… Deep inside her new abode, she finds a portal to something far more sinister.

Now, watch our exclusive clip of the film’s star Clare Monnelly trying to escape...