The title, I have since learned, is a phonetic spelling of an Irish word meaning "roots," and this is a slight clue to where it's going. There isn't a lot of visceral horror here, or gore, it's more the tension of trying to make sense of the central narrative and the odd dynamic between a home caregiver and her stubborn and possibly deluded charge. There's English and Gaelic throughout and (maybe naively, to this American), they seem to echo the modern world and Celtic myth projecting their own expectations on the world.
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Alma and the Wolf 2025
This is a story with an extremely unreliable narrator and I'm not totally convinced the ending it lands on (it does, definitely, have an ending at least) is justified by what we've seen happen, or what the POV we've been given imagines has happened. It's intriguing enough that I want to see it again so... good job?
Along the way we get some folk horror overtones, some amazing costuming & f/x, and a compelling father/son dynamic with the two leads, (Ethan Embry & Lukas Jann)
ETA: This won audience favorite feature at BUFF 2025
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Head Like a Hole 2024
There is a flashback scene at the beginning of this film that I really enjoyed for giving me a completely false idea about where it was headed.
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The Ugly Stepsister 2025
In which we found out how much of the BUFF audience had read the Grimm's version of the Cinderella story and knew what was coming.
I really don't often flinch from gore or look away from the screen, but I did here.
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