Cuckoo

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Cuckoo

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2024

1h 42m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.

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Critics Consensus

Directed with inventive flair by Tilman Singer while given flavorful personality by stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Cuckoo is a madcap madhouse horror that's on the right side of deranged.

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Audience Says

After a promising start the movie maintains creativity and style, but its meandering narrative is perhaps a bit Cuckoo and scarce on actual scares.

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Adam Nayman

Toronto Star

Jun 17

3/4

To Singer’s credit, it’s bracing to encounter a semi-mainstream horror movie that’s willing (and eager) to subordinate narrative logic to matters of atmosphere.

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Claudia Puig

FilmWeek (LAist)

08/28/2024

It's not very developed, so we don't get invested in their scary shenanigans.

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Anton Bitel

Sight & Sound

08/28/2024

Amid unsettling sound design and plotting that is in every sense loopy, questions are raised about nature and nurture, and about human bonds that go beyond the conventional norms of genetics and biology.

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Dec 4

8/10

The scares are few, but the tension is high. Singer does a good job at maintaining the feeling of being trapped in various ways... It is engaging throughout, but gets a little sketchy towards the end where it wedges in all the necessary exposition.

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Emily von Seele

Daily Dead

Sep 14

5/5

Cuckoo is a very original film that offers suspense, terror and complete madness in a beautiful, 2-hour package.

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Marissa Hill

Shade Studios

Jul 30

Some viewers may not appreciate the film's glitch effects or its underlying message about women’s bodies and childbearing, but Cuckoo remains a bold and original take on psychological horror.

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deondre

Jul 10

cool movie with a plot made for 500 page book

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Mika

May 17

This movie had potential… Then fell flat.

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Jac

Jan 2

Was all around a good film. not necessarily for the horror aspect, but I do enjoy films with perceptive main characters surrounded by a less perspective cast

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🎥🍿Gal

10/21/2024

I liked it even though I’m not 100% what’s going on in the story. Not much makes sense, but the actors did great,

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Juandi

10/15/2024

A stylistic thriller that sort of feeds you something & nothing at the same time. Hunter Schafer delivered a very strong performance. Overall, Cuckoo leaves much to be desired by the end.

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Greg

10/08/2024

very fun , and original story. Hunter was so good.

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Synopsis

Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.

Director: Tilman Singer
Producer: Ken Kao, Josh Rosenbaum, Markus Halberschmidt, Maria Tsiga, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer
Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Tilman Singer
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: NEON, Fiction Park, Waypoint Entertainment
Rating: R (Brief Teen Drug Use|Bloody Images|Language|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 9, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 17, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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