Hatching

Name: Hatching
Genre: Horror
Released: April 29, 2022
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Aada Punakivi, Hertta Karen, Hertta Nieminen, Ida Määttänen, Jani Volanen

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: April 29, 2022 | NR

Starring: Aada Punakivi, Hertta Karen, Hertta Nieminen, Ida Määttänen, Jani Volanen, Jonna Aaltonen, Miroslava Agejeva, Oiva Ollila, Reino Nordin, Saija Lentonen, Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Stefano Douaihy, Stella Leppikorpi

Summary: 12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.

Director: Hanna Bergholm

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: NR

Runtime: 86 min

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Lena Wilson

Apr 29, 2022

It is subversive, stomach-churning and visionary, a body-horror film that doubles as a fable of femininity gone wrong. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Apr 28, 2022

A sometimes uneasy merger of monster movie and psychological horror — with a dollop of social-media satire — this inventive first feature mines tween confusion (there are nods to both bulimia and menstruation) for grotesque fun. Read full review

Xan Brooks

Sep 20, 2022

Bergholm gives us precision-tooled jump scares and creeping, clammy atmospherics; a malevolent mother and an insurrectionist child. Read full review

Polygon Tasha Robinson

Jan 27, 2022

Timid viewers who are normally averse to horror aren’t going to find much comfort or safety in this movie. But for longtime horror buffs, this feels like something fresh: a simple story, told in the rawest and most startling way, and given a face out of nightmares. Read full review

The Film Stage Brianna Zigler

Jan 26, 2022

Bergholm’s debut is ultimately a knotty delight, however on-the-nose its metaphor about those monsters we fashion from our own disfigured forms of love. Read full review

Siddhant Adlakha

Apr 29, 2022

Hatching is a scattered body-horror romp with the best child performance this year. Read full review

Keith Watson

Jan 31, 2022

The ham-handed allegorical construction, generically titled characters, and self-serious tone in its final third drains the story of the specificity that might have resulted in a more incisive critique of the perils of perfectionism. Read full review

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brentD123

May 19, 2022

Great! A unique & sublimely dark metaphoric fable that anyone can identify with in one way or another (if you grew up as a human on planet earth)… the aesthetic and narrative are both beautiful things to behold. Nice job, Finland!

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bertobellamy

Nov 25, 2022

A dark fairy tale with some creepy and gross coming-of-age metaphors. Unfortunately, some of its many ideas don't work that well or remain undeveloped, but there's no denying that what it's got to say about family toxicity will leave you thinking one or two things.

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Panchogul

Dec 27, 2022

Tiene un buen concepto pero una ejecución muy debajo de la media. La relación criatura-niña es muy poco profunda y errática; para que hablar de la familia, un padre bobo y desconectado de la realidad que le rodea, un antipático hermano menor y finalmente una madre pretenciosa, falsa, caretaTiene un buen concepto pero una ejecución muy debajo de la media. La relación criatura-niña es muy poco profunda y errática; para que hablar de la familia, un padre bobo y desconectado de la realidad que le rodea, un antipático hermano menor y finalmente una madre pretenciosa, falsa, careta y egoísta, en pocas palabras, el verdadero monstruo de esta película.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Mar 2, 2023

Unsettling and kinda gross. Elements that would normally give many horror films a boost, but in Hatching they only help it so far before it starts to stagnate.

Why? Because instead of focusing on the horror angle, the plot explores other story lines that don't give much punch to the rest ofUnsettling and kinda gross. Elements that would normally give many horror films a boost, but in Hatching they only help it so far before it starts to stagnate.

Why? Because instead of focusing on the horror angle, the plot explores other story lines that don't give much punch to the rest of the film.

Either we see what's going on with the creature or we see the constant jabs and hints at mothers who are more interested in social media than their children and Hatching never makes a concise case for either argument.

It wasn't too bad, but there's nothing about it that leaves a lasting impression.… Expand

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royalguy07

May 5, 2022

Loved the setup and the prosthetic design of the monster. Never quite gets there on the horror or thrills. The mom was the real monster.

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

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