Hatching
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.
- Released: 2022-03-04
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Genre: Fantasy, Horror
- Stars: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila, Saija Lentonen, Ida Määttänen, Stella Leppikorpi, Jonna Aaltonen, Hertta Karen
- Director: Hanna Bergholm
Comments
- rubyferraday - 7 January 2023
Another mother monster
I really enjoyed this movie. It didn't really scare me but it was quite chilling.
Tinja's demanding mother makes her character known in the first scene of the movie and should be ample foreshadowing of where this story is going. She kills a bird Tinja has become concerned for and this bird leads Tinja to an egg. I think the bird may be a cuckoo, as this is a cuckoo trope.
The cuckoo hatches and immediately seeks to fool the 'mother' that it is one of them, and in so doing, progressively ruins Tinja's already deteriorating life.
The mother is the monster of this movie. She cares nothing for the feelings of those around her, is hyper competitive and will throw anyone under the bus. It's a great performance, by both mother and daughter.
At the end, Tinja's mother reveals exactly how much of a monster she is, and is rewarded with exactly the kind of gift such a monster would wish for. Chilling. - Pairic - 22 September 2022
Watch The Birdy!
Hatching: Finnish Horror Film about yet another unhappy family, unhappy in it's own way. Very dark a Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12 year old gymnast is literally henpecked by her influencer mother (Sophia Heikkilä) who has to present he perfect family in her vlog. The truth is rather different as the mother lives vicariously through Tinja's gymnastic progress, the pushy mother from hell. Tinja develops a monstrous alter-ego as a an egg hatches. This monster lives under her bed and in her closet. Plenty of metaphors here dealing with everything from adolescent rage to unfaithfulness. The monster in both it's avian and "human" guises is terrifying and disturbing. Made all the more so as it is presented through prosthesis, make up and puppetry rather than CG effects. Elements of extreme body horror and some good jump shocks add to an aura of strangeness which will leave you shell-shocked. Directed by Hanna Bergholm, written by Ilja Rautsi. 8/10.
