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The Big Picture Every so often, there is a horror film that isn’t afraid to get a little weird and keep you from finding your balance. Audience expectations be damned, these works operate on their own wavelength, and you just have to go along for the ride. Writer-director Tilman Singer's Cuckoo is this in glorious action, proving to be both plenty of fun in the ways genre lovers will expect, while also pushing into its own strange and silly directions.
Release Date May 3, 2024 Director Tilman Singer Cast Hunter Schafer , Dan Stevens , Jessica Henwick , Marton Csokas , Astrid Bergès-Frisbey , Greta Fernández , Kalin Morrow , Mila Lieu Runtime 102 Minutes Main Genre Horror Writers Tilman Singer What Is 'Cuckoo' About? Unknowingly at the center of this impending chaos is the rebellious young Gretchen who is being whisked away from her home in America to the German Alps with her father Luis , her stepmother Beth , and her...
'Cuckoo' Cements Tilman Singer as a Horror Filmmaker to Watch Not only does Cuckoo itself look great, with great texture to the visuals that make its violent pleasures carry that much more of a punch, but the way these scenes are all staged by Singer proves to be spectacular.
Hunter Schafer Crushes It in 'Cuckoo' While Schafer has been in plenty of projects before this, whether it is the series Euphoria, the recent The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, or the English version of the recent animated film Belle, this is her first time that she has led a live-action feature that is truly all her own. Not only does she more than rise to the occasion, but she expertly navigates the necessary variety of tones to make the film sing.
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