Finnish body horror is a pretty, hollow egg

Hanna Bergholm's creature-feature debut stirs the simmering conflict between a controlling mother, her daughter and a rogue doppelgänger.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A teenager harbours a monstrous secret in Hannah Bergholm’s clever psychological shocker

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

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

Beneath the prestige-horror trappings of incredibly uneven 'Hatching' lies a grungy little creature feature yearning to break free.

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Hatching is a scattered body-horror romp with the best child performance this year.

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 this that Mother makes a living placing her family’s unblemished, Aryan faces in front of a selfie camera and documenting their lives for all the world to see.

Hatching turns an odd bird’s shell into a nesting doll of dysfunction

If “ Petite Maman ” left you feeling a little too good about mothers, daughters and empathy, Finland may just have the antidote in Hanna Bergholm’s “ Hatching,” a chilling critique of perfectionism wrapped up in a gruesome body horror.

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

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

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

Repressed crises explode as a shy tweenager daughter’s nightmarish doppelganger emerges from mysterious ovum

Finnish director Hanna Bergholm recruited Gustav Hoegen (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and The Dark Knight’s makeup artist Conor O’Sullivan to help bring her monster movie vision life, and it’s fresh. The movie releases in theaters and on VOD April 29.