Film • Mar 4, 2022
12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Hatching
- Status
- Released
- Release
- March 4, 2022 (3 years ago)
- Alias
- Pahanhautoja
- Language
- Finnish
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Themes
- Body Horror, Monster Horror
- Origin
- Finland, Sweden
Cast
Scores
- Average Score
- 62.2%
FilmAffinity
- 61%
IMDb
- 62%
Letterboxd
- 63%
Metacritic
- 66%
Rotten Tomatoes
- 59%
Levels
- Sex & Nudity
- None
- Violence
- Moderate
- Profanity
- None
- Algohol & Drugs
- None
- Fright & Intensity
- Moderate
Reviews
AP NewsReview: The perils of perfectionism in Finland's ‘Hatching’
AV ClubHatching turns an odd bird’s shell into a nesting doll of dysfunction
Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment GuideReview: A Finnish fable about a mom and daughter turns horrifying in ‘Hatching’
FOX 5 New YorkSundance Film Festival 2022: Emma Thompson, Thandiwe Newton and some haunting horror flicks
David Rooney‘Hatching’ (‘Pahanhautoja’): Film Review
LAistFilmWeek: ‘The Survivor,’ ‘The Will To See,’ ‘Flint: Who Can You Trust?’ And More
Los Angeles TimesReview: Social media and a mommy-blogger mother from hell are the true horrors in 'Hatching'
Little White LiesHatching
The Mercury NewsWhat to watch: Putin’s least favorite movie lands in Bay Area theaters
Roger EbertHatching movie review & film summary (2022)
Roger EbertSundance 2022: Hatching, Piggy, Meet Me In the Bathroom
Screen‘Hatching’: Sundance Review
Keith Watson'Hatching' Review: A Monster Metaphor Eats Itself Alive
Jake WilsonThis Scandi horror is an ingenious shell shocker
Lena Wilson'Hatching' Film Review: Finnish Horror Unleashes a Teenage Girl's Rebelliously Monstrous Side
Dan JacksonThe Best Movies at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival
Ty BurrWhat to Watch: Midsummer Night Fever Dreams
Tomris Laffly‘Hatching’ Review: Eerily Atmospheric Finnish Body-Horror Cracks Open a Tween Girl’s Concealed Grudges
