Saga and her English husband Jon move into the timber-porched, tree-encroached house deep in a Finnish forest that belonged to Saga's late grandmother, hoping its rustic charm will provide the perfect setting to start a family. When Saga becomes pregnant and gives birth, she becomes increasingly convinced that something is monstrously wrong with their child, its almost fur-like hair, tiny claws and ferocious, bloody appetite pushing her toward physical and psychological collapse. As Jon remains stubbornly oblivious to what Saga sees so clearly, the chasm between them widens, in Hanna Bergholm's English-language body-horror follow-up to her acclaimed debut Hatching.
Review:
An audacious, divisive body-horror descent into new motherhood that straddles psychological drama and creature-feature excess, anchored by Rupert Grint's surprisingly unflappable performance against genre type.
