Hatching (2022)

Original title

Pahanhautoja

Directed by

Hanna Bergholm

Genre

horror film, body horror film, coming-of-age film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 500 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young gymnast named Tinja finds a mysterious egg and brings it home. She cares for the creature that hatches, which acts on her hidden feelings. The story is about her struggle with a controlling mother who obsesses over a perfect family image.

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What happens

Hatching (Finnish: Pahanhautoja lit. "Hatcher of Evil", a play on a Finnish idiom for nursing a grudge) is a 2022 Finnish satirical absurdist psychological body horror film directed by Hanna Bergholm, written by Ilja Rautsi and starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen and Reino Nordin. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 23 January 2022 and was released theatrically in Finland on 4 March 2022 by Nordisk Film. It won the Grand Prix and the Prix du Jury Jeunes at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer 2022. The film centers on Tinja, a young gymnast desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family to the world through her popular blog. One day, Tinja finds a mysterious egg, which she chooses to bring home. Once it hatches, she names the creature within "Alli", and cares for it as it grows into a doppelgänger that acts upon Tinja's repressed emotions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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