Unwelcome (2023)

Young couple Jamie and Maya live together in London. After learning that Maya is pregnant, Jamie celebrates with her only for them to be attacked by a gang of hoodlums. Maya is left unharmed. In the aftermath of the assault, Jamie and Maya take the opportunity to move to an idyllic new home in rural Ireland, inherited from Jamie's great-aunt Maeve after her death.

The house requires some work, prompting them to hire the local Whelan family as builders. They are troubled by a warning from Niamh, an old friend of Jamie's aunt, that they should leave an offering of liver at a door of the house's back garden every night for the Red Caps that live in the forest, but accept it as a harmless superstition.

As Jamie and Maya spend more time in the house, they are troubled to learn that Maeve lost a child herself, a daughter who disappeared when the girl was barely two years old, and the body was never found. Niamh tells Maya an old story that the baby was lost as part of a deal with the Red Caps to save the life of the child's father who later dies, but Maya wonders if the child was killed in a fit of post-partum depression.

The Whelans soon prove themselves to be violent and disturbed; younger children Aisling and Killian often steal minor items from the house, and older son Eoin is often beaten by "Daddy" Whelan. At one point, Maya is lured into the wood by a dog, where she finds a stone shrine to the Red Caps. While trying to return to the house, she finds Eoin, who talks about the abuse he receives from his father, but when she offers him comfort Eoin tries to assault her, only for him to be dragged away by what Maya later identifies as the Red Caps.

That night, Jamie has a confrontation with Aisling and Killian in the pub about what happened to their brother, while Maya is visited by a Red Cap that presents her with Eoin's head in a plastic bag. When Jamie returns the two are shocked at this proof that the Red Caps are real, but the house is then attacked by the Whelans, seeking answers about Eoin's disappearance. Maya is caught with Eoin's head while trying to escape as Jamie distracts Daddy Whelan at the front door, forcing Maya to flee into the woods to ask the Red Caps for help with a promise to give them anything. In response to Maya's appeal, the Red Caps come to the house and fight with the Whelans, killing all three as Maya gives birth.

Once the baby has been checked at the hospital, their first night back at the house sees the baby being taken by the Red Caps as payment for their help. Maya follows them to the shrine where she discovers an elderly woman who she realises is the lost daughter of Jamie's aunt, kept by the Red Caps. Refusing to let them keep her daughter and to take her instead, Maya then kills one of the Red Caps and crushes the old woman's skull with her bare hands. This makes the Red Caps revere her. She and her daughter return to the house and Jamie watches in horrified awe as Maya is "baptised" with the blood and skull of the dead woman, apparently being proclaimed as the new "Mother Redcap".