The Cuckoo's Curse (2023)

Original title

El cuco

Directed by

Mar Targarona

Genre

drama, thriller

Country

Germany, Spain

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

16

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish couple expecting their first child swaps houses with an elderly German couple. Strange occurrences and hidden agendas begin to surface.

tenseunnervingatmosphericslow-burnominoussuspensefulunsettlingclaustrophobic

What happens

The Cuckoo's Curse (Spanish: El cuco) is a 2023 supernatural thriller film directed by Mar Targarona from a screenplay by Alfred Pérez-Fargas and Robert Danès, and starring Belén Cuesta, Rainer Reiners, Jorge Suquet, and Hildegard Schroedter. It was internationally co-produced by Spain and Germany. The plot revolves around a swap of houses between a Spanish couple (Cuesta and Suquet) waiting for their first child and a couple of old-age Germans (Schroedter and Reiners). The Cuckoo's Curse premiered at 26th Málaga Film Festival on 17 March 2023 and was released theatrically in Spain by Filmax on 15 September 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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