Cuckoo

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Cuckoo

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Released Aug 9, 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

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.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 17, 2025

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Claudia Puig

FilmWeek (LAist)

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

Aug 28, 2024

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Anton Bitel

Sight & Sound

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.

Aug 28, 2024

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Rebecca Sayce

FILMHOUNDS Magazine

Cuckoo is unique, with an incredibly out-there concept that audiences won't soon forget. However, the film never develops from a cool idea as it flounders under the weight of its complicated ideas that never feel fully realised.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 24, 2025

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Tim Miller

Cape Cod Wave Magazine

Think ’50 sci-fi horror schlock with a touch of David Lynch ... convoluted and off-kilter. ... I admit to being confused, but ... the movie’s relentless insanity, combining awkwardness and awfulness, tickled me.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 22, 2025

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Rua Fay

Cinemasters

In a year of great horror, Cuckoo simply fell short with its underbaked characters and baffling plot.

Jul 21, 2025

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deondre

cool movie with a plot made for 500 page book

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/10/25

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Mika

This movie had potential… Then fell flat.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/17/25

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Jac

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

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/02/25

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🎥🍿Gal

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,

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/21/24

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Juandi

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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/15/24

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Greg

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

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/09/24

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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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