2024 · horror · mystery · thriller
Cuckoo
Directed by Tilman Singer1h 43m2024
After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she's plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.
Our read: Cuckoo (2024) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
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