Finnish body horror is a pretty, hollow egg

The pursuit of perfection often comes with a toll, especially in the realm of horror. Director Hanna Bergholm’s feature debut spins a modern horror fairy ...

24/01/2022 - Leave it to Hanna Bergholm’s Finnish oddity to announce there is another Birdman in town

The film, directed by Hanna Bergholm and starring Siiri Solalinna and Sophia Heikila, combines sensitive performances and gross-out body horror.

This Finnish horror-comedy is an exploration of mother-daughter psychology. It's also ooey-gooey-gross!

A girl brings home a mysterious egg in this Finnish horror. Read the Empire review.

Our film critics scoped out the best, buzziest and most unexpected titles of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Read on for our final dispatch from the fest, w...

Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s creature-feature debut stirs the simmering conflict between a controlling mother, her fragile daughter and a rogue doppel...

Hanna Bergholm's feature debut uses a very big egg to unpack some very big ideas about womanhood.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Wade Major review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.

In the Finnish horror film 'Hatching,' directed by Hanna Bergholm, a young girl forms a symbiotic relationship with a bird monster she raises from an egg.

Hanna Bergholm's directorial debut is a cracking, artfully-crafted creature feature set in a gaudy suburban dollhouse.

‘Firebird,’ a gay romance centered on two Soviet soldiers, has been suppressed in Russia but comes to Bay Area theaters April 29.

Scrambling creature feature with psycho-horror, this inventive oddity brings tween anxieties to monstrous life.

And the director used tech teams from Star Wars and The Dark Knight to build it

On the second half of this year's Midnights program from the Sundance Film Festival. 

Hatching never really congeals into something that’s as unsettling as it is gross.

The harbinger couldn’t be clearer or more simple. A crow crashes into a window of the “lovely everyday life of an ordinary Finnish family.” It gets in ...

First time feature director Hanna Bergholm goes for broke in Hatching, a standout film in this year’s Sundance Midnight lineup. With a solid selection ...

Visceral coming-of-age horror from Finland will appeal to fans of Scandi-genre fare

In Hatching, director Hanna Bergholm uses practical effects to deliver an effective exploration of puberty and the societal pressures placed on women.

The society pictured in this kind of film seems a little too clean and white. But as ever, there are cracks in the surface.

Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) has the perfect family. The kind of family who would no doubt have made Adolf Hitler shed a single, wistful tear. It’s because of...

Hanna Bergholm’s unnerving, instantly memorable influencer horror flick “Hatching" introduced a bold new genre voice at this year's Sundance.

Hanna Bergholm's terrifying feature debut suggests a dark reckoning for parents who care more about perfection than their children's happiness

The best of the best from this year's virtual Sundance.

"Bullet Train and "Bodies Bodies Bodies" in theaters, "Thirteen Lives" and more on demand.

Elevated by Siiri Solalinna's fearless performance, Hanna Bergholm's debut feature puts an original spin on a familiar doppelgänger premise.