Hatching

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
  • PANDIAN120621 - 5 June 2024
    A fresh take on a creepy horror folk tale...!!!
    A movie that hopes to be scared but It's not so much about the creepy monster but about a family and their issues. It's weird and gross but also really hard to stop watching... Epic battle as child realizes false self is going to hurt people she loves in defending her from pain - and take control of her life ...one may pin down what is happening but not be able to pin down what happens next...

    The movie portrays how the innocent good side gets replaced with fully insane evil version of the child due to ignorance of parents trying to understand them. Preparing them to compete their counterparts for personal show off of parents due to unhealthy competitive society and influence of modern social media addiction to be famous...

    An Elements of extreme body horror and some good jump shocks add to an aura of strangeness which will leave you shell-shocked...The family drama might seem flat but its actually insane and silently corrosive. The lengths these characters go to believe their stage play of a life...

    Solalinna is wondrous; a highly graceful screen presence, she manages to balance Tinja's anxieties and striving for approval with a steely sensibility, and really excels at every given frame... The design of Alli and her disturbing shedding and morphing was incredible and seeing the aftermath of the violence was chilling enough without drawn-out sequences of brutality making us love the creature & has been rightful in every way being an individual point of view...

    Overall Hatching becomes a relevant, thought provoking nightmare that's ain't intense but not of cheap thrills either...A must see flick that's impressive with its plot & the way they treated the screenplay and it's pacing...
  • justahunch-70549 - 14 October 2023
    It's well done for what it is, but what is it?!
    I'm very surprised seeing all of the positive reviews on this site for this very peculiar and quite repulsive horror film. It's well done with excellent cinematography and some impressive physical special effects, but my biggest problem with it is that midway in this extreme oddity of a film it's obvious where it's leading. For me the problem is once we get to that obvious development, what the hell happens next which is not shown to us. There seems to be a variety of people who have various interpretations of this ending, but it's really not an ending. It's a new beginning and it just leaves us there. The set decoration is very well done and rather funny all due to the character of the mother who is an absolute horror in a different way. The acting is good, but it doesn't make up for it it's inadequacies, though no doubt this is a truly original film and it's one that I never want to see again. Apparently some will like it though.
  • christopher-underwood - 9 March 2023
    full blown horror
    We are unhappy at the very start that the manipulating mother has the whole family arranged her camera for her 'vlog' and especially for her 12 year old daughter gymnast. Even as this starts a crow flies into the room and gradually everything gets rather unpleasant. It gets worse into the woods and also the poor girl has her demanding mother so that she can win her gymnast prize. Already she has her pre-adolescence and something gets really scary after she has an egg hatched. Now the film becomes a full blown horror even as a creature something like ET but not so lovely and it becomes more like a changeling and it all gets terrible. Siiri Solalinna as the young girl is superb and the young director has an amazing grip of this rather difficult and splendid idea. Although it is still rather horrible for the whole 90 minutes.
  • RealGhostbuster - 30 October 2022
    It's E.T. meets The Karate Kid with a dash of The Exorcist
    A preteen gymnast is having emotional turmoil stemming from her mother's behavior and finds a what appears to be a bird egg in the woods. The bird egg grows to be rather large and becomes a sort of E. T. character, except apparently he's not content to just float about like a hippie but rather kills at the slightest provocation. Dog across the street barking incessantly? "I'm here for you!", says E. T. bird thingy. Snap-- goes the dog's neck. It's possible if I had kept watching it that i would feel differently about the film overall. I started watching this because the core concept was appealing to my sensibilities but the structure of the script, the way the story unfolds, is just too shallow and straight nosed for me to feel like finishing it.
  • martimusross - 6 September 2022
    A Shocker! For Horror Movie aficionados
    Hatching

    This was a secret unlimited screening and Cineworld and boy was it a surprise. We were treated to horror, subtitles and Nordic noir all at the same time, this is an unprecedented choice by Cineworld to subject on an unwitting audience. Surprising only 4 punters up-sticks and walked out, which I thought was remarkable.

    Overall I enjoyed the movie very much it was very original unusual and fresh, however with that said there are few people this movie was actually made for it was a shocker it really was and I really couldn't recommend it to anyone.

    We had a seeming perfect Finnish world but in reality everything was corrupt and distorted. We had some fabulous individual acting from all of the cast it was very convincing.

    The movie played with other themes and much of it was allegorical as the "monster" was inextricably linked emotionally and physically to the young daughter, it was somehow an extension of her desires even her id.

    Whilst I'm going to give this a firm six out of 10 I do not recommend this movie to anyone.
  • perisho - 17 August 2022
    Fairy tale nearly perfectly done
    I loved this film. Despite being male myself and the story dripping with female energy, I still got a lot out of it. It's got the surface story, which is interesting and engaging, not to mention the set design, wardrobe and cinematography which are all outstanding and contribute a ton to the story and feel of the film- but there is also subtext galore.

    I hate to say there is a main "moral" like with a lot of fairy tales, and there does seem to be an overarching theme, but there are morals and hints throughout the film, warnings even. Cautions for life. The subtext makes the film 1000 times better.

    And the ending was perfect.