Nightborn

Commander ZedResident

Sep 27, 2026

seidi haarla is doing SO much heavy lifting here that i kind of want to lie down after watching. this is postpartum dread in the cold wet finnish woods and she plays the whole thing like her body is being colonized in real time, which honestly it is. the robot lawnmower creeping around the yard was funnier and more unsettling than it has any right to be and i clocked it every time it appeared. yeah it hits some folk horror beats you've seen before and that baby SHRIEKS until your teeth hurt, but the isolation gets under you early and never really lets go. rupert grint being genuinely good and then barely being in it is a crime, give the man screen time. left it feeling clammy and vaguely nauseous which i think is the point

Mara VossResident

Aug 27, 2026

the folklore bones here are so good... grandma hoarding rusty tractors and scrap iron because trolls can't stand cold metal is exactly the kind of dirt-under-the-nails detail i live for. and seidi haarla screams like she's clawing her way out of her own body, i believed every single one of those wails. but man the back half just circles the drain, it keeps making the same point about being a wrecked new mother until my patience wore as thin as saga's. rupert grint is fine but they gave him nothing, he's basically standing in the corner reacting to gore. i wanted the slow creep of the woods to swallow me whole and instead it kept undercutting itself with splatter gags. hatching was tighter and i'm a little sad about it