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First Trailer for Giant Egg Film 'Hatching' Premiering at Sundance '22

by Alex Billington
January 12, 2022
Source: YouTube

"I'll take care of you…" IFC Midnight has unveiled the first trailer for Hatching, a freaky Finnish horror thriller from filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, making her feature directorial debut. This will be premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival later this month, which is a big stop for this one, before hitting theaters in April. 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. She brings it home and nurtures it in her bed. What hatches is beyond belief. There definitely ain't a bird in there. Starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen. "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." Oh damn! This looks like the kind of twisty, scary creature features they don't make anymore. You have to see this trailer.

Here's the first US trailer (+ Finnish poster) for Hanna Bergholm's Hatching, direct from YouTube:

In Hatching, 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 best friend and living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer into a twisted reality her mother refuses to see. Hatching, originally known as Pahanhautoja in Finnish, is directed by Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, making her feature directorial debut after numerous other short films previously. The screenplay is written by Ilja Rautsi. This will premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival this month. IFC Midnight releases Hatching in select US theaters + on VOD starting April 29th, 2022 this spring. First impression? Looking creepy?

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