A UK trailer and poster have been delivered for filmmaker Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching, a film that lit up this year’s Sundance festival in January and then the off-shoot in London in May.
The film features tons of practical effects as well as a memorable story that’ll stick with viewers for days after seeing it. It’s a true highlight of the year.
The synopsis is as follows:
In this darkly compelling fable, 12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer of her family and into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see. Hatching is the terrifying debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, heralding in an exciting new voice in horror.
Hatching dazzles with its visuals, disturbs with its content, and chills with it’s excellent creature work, weaving together a delicately balanced cotton-candy coated nightmare.
You can read our full review of the film from Sundance here.
Hatching will get a release in the UK and Ireland from 16th September through Picturehouse. You can watch the trailer for the movie below.
