Synopsis
She's coming out of her shell
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.
2022 ‘Pahanhautoja’ Directed by Hanna Bergholm
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.
Ruva, Birds of a Feather, Éclosion, Izšķilšanās, 孵魔, Egō, Ovo, Εκκόλαψη, A keltetés, Hatching - La forma del male, Cría Siniestra, ハッチング-孵化-, Pisklę, Oul surpriză, Скрежет, Kuluçka, 햇칭, Hatching: Cría siniestra, 부화, 孵化, Ninho do Mal, Скрегіт, Ono, ハッチング -孵化-, Ấp Trứng, בקיעה
me watching any movie about someone caring for a fucked up nightmare creature: this is about having a cat
Finnish girl finds a flying-type Pokémon that evolves into a feral doppelgänger that uses Metaphor as a signature ability and it’s super effective.
Hatching, the latest Finnish body-horror offering that brings forth a grim modern day fairytale, with a setting so suburban you know something is brewing underneath its false pretense and pristine existence. A young girl, Tinja, finds a mysterious egg in the forest, she brings it home and nurtures it, until one day the egg has doubled in size and hatches into something more extensive than what meets the eye.
in its demise; allegory after allegory, Hatching tackles too many thematic elements to keep itself afloat; nature vs. nurture, coming-of-age, a fabricated family image, and the mental warfare of a child eager to gain their mothers approval. while the mother/daughter dysfunctional dynamic works for a film so cold, it never reaches…
I genuinely think that this is a unique horror fantasy film. It's uncanny and unsettling in unconscious ways, but bigger than its ideas, which have the quality of a fable with meanings that reverberate far beyond its story. Although it occasionally feels like a short film that was unnecessarily stretched into a feature film, it is thankfully wrapped in the overlay of magic-realism, which provides some unforgettable moments of brilliance from beginning to end.
There are several extraordinary ideas scattered throughout, such as the set design, effects, fairy-tale undertone, production design, makeup, the bird creature, and even some of the acting. This artistic fusion of a horror film and the girl's trauma is notable for its insights into the world. The length is pretty good, and it completely captivated me from the satirical beginning to the bitter end.
my mother tried to make me in her image and all it turned me into was a monster
This movie reaffirms what we all know implicitly: influencers are where the real horror comes from