The Finnish horror film Hatching will be making its premiere at 11:55pm MT on January 22nd as part of this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, and a trailer has arrived online to give us a preview of this very bizarre-looking movie. You can watch the trailer in the embed above, and if you like what you see you’ll be glad to hear that IFC Midnight is planning to give Hatching a theatrical, digital, and VOD release in just a few months, on April 29th.
The feature directorial debut of Hanna Bergholm, Hatching was written by Ilja Rautsi and has the following synopsis:
12-year-old gymnast Tinja is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see. Hatching is a fascinating portrait of the nature of maternal instinct, as Tinja battles to come to terms with the genuine emotional bond with her grotesque and bloodthirsty new found family while contending with the fraying connection to her own demanding mother.
The film stars Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin, Saija Lentonen, Siiri Solalinna, and Sophia Heikkilä.
Hatching looks like it’s going to make for an incredibly weird viewing experience, which pretty much guarantees that I’m going to be watching it at some point. What did you think of the trailer? Does this look like a movie you’ll be watching when it’s released in April? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Here are a couple pieces of promotional art: