SPOOPYWEEN DAY 7 HATCHING!!!!!

Day 7

Hatching

Another film I know nothing about but always was curious to see.

I think what it was, was the title confused me. There’s been times, in my old age.

Where I look at box art for a new movie and the title, and for some reason get it mixed up with another movie. Also that happens with modern movies because people keep making photoshop posters. But I did finally resolve this mystery. I rewatched a movie recently about a woman giving birth to a demon baby and having no idea why everyone was trying to kill her. The cover art of that was a little similar for me. Don’t ask me the title now because it left my head.

At any rate. What’s not to love about a poster promising us a child and an unknown egg? That sounds like prime 80’s fodder and if that’s the case, I can dig it. I’ve said it once I’ll say it again, we need more child horror films. Those can be fun fucked up little nightmare fuel machines. But we don’t see many of them. For me growing up I still remember the day my mom took me and my sister to the two greatest spots on earth as a kid. Toys R Us, and the video store. My cousins went with us to the video store and this memory unlike the rest of my memory still stands out perfectly.

I was playing with a slimey messy as hell dino tar pit playset on the wood floor of our living room, while my cousins put on a horror movie they kept telling my mom should be okay for me called The Gate. It was okay because it had a kid in it so, of course that meant nothing gory or titalicious. Instead I got a movie that promised me a gate to hell if I dug a hole in the backyard, a cool as shit geode, and my sister had trouble sleeping. Was good stuff, and that playset did not last long. But it was also pretty cool. You let dino bones sink into black slimy ooze then pull them out and, whatever.

Sorry I let this turn into a recipe blog post. I really hate those too honestly. When you want a recipe but have to skip through 6 paragraphs of the blogger recanting their exciting outing in old town blah blah and the memories and mood evoked by the season and smell of whatever shit coffee was being served.

We all know we skip through that shit. They know it too. But still they do it.

Anyway lets see what happens when a kid finds an unknown egg and decides to fuck around and find out.

Also lets pray for a really shitty rubber monster that looks like the shit from Mac and Me.

The Film

When a film kicks off with a Flowers in the Attic vibe, you know it’s gonna be a fun time. And oh it is.

Right off the bat there is some funny ass what is wrong with this family shit. I pray this isn’t an artsy film, otherwise I will know my comedy in these opening moments was for not.

But we get glimpses setting up this families life. A daughter with the creepiest albeit perfect spinal alignment I’ve ever seen, doing ballet. A mommy blogger showing off how playful and sweet and what a fun mom she is, with a perfect family. I can already tell she’s going to be biting the heads off puppies at some point, and an ideal hubby that seems dorky and a little rascal of a son. All so perfect, well behaved and fun loving.

Until nature enters their home.

It’s the funniest thing in a while but, the daughter hears a thud against their door so she opens it, finds a stain where a beard decided to fly head first into the glass. Which means mom keeps those doors spotless and beautiful. Right then a crow flies into the house and…

The way this family reacts. You’d think they never encountered an animal in their lives. One bird is enough to send them all flailing around like idiots. Immediately breaking every expensive, beautiful nice looking vase, candle holder, decorative glass, and somehow at one point. The crow is able to pull out a miniature screwdriver. Because it manages to somehow bring down a glass chandelier, on top of a glass table.

But Meanwhile, their son shows himself to be a prime candidate for the keeping your child on a leash foundation, or better yet toss them into a pit with troglodytes. Because this little fucker is a menace that needs taking care of.

His idea of helping to capture the bird, is the grin like someone who felt a fart squeeze out and not make a noise and run around the house knocking people into shit, chasing the bird and leaping clapping his hands.

Maybe he’s a little special. Maybe they’re just Finnish. All I know is its pretty damn funny trying to decide which family member did the most damage compared to the bird and the chandelier.

But all is over far too soon as Tinja our teen daughter catches the bird effortlessly, using a blanket and you know. Not running around screaming at the sun.

Well now with the bird menace taken care of, that means everyone can calm down and be happy again. Until mom ask to see the trapped bird and snaps its neck. So yes Mom is, special, and a little peeved that her nice life was ruined for a moment by a bird just being a bird.

Welcome to the perfect family

By that I mean the most what the fuck am I watching family.

Now I’m okay with bird neck snapping mom. I get that. She is pissed, she likes perfection and nothing else will do. This is the image she sells. Literally online. Mom runs a blog detailing her perfect happy life. It’s a very on the nose poke at social media and if they run with it I kinda hope it lands because I really hate those family blogs and especially people that do shit for views.

But yes, the film is giving us exactly what we’d expected and saw just from the first 4 minutes. We have a daughter who is having her life taken from her by a mother who demands perfection. She has to give up any and all friendship outtings and focus on her gymnastics competition. Shit they even have a nice new family moving in next door, their daughter would like to make friends with Tinja. But NO! Mom reminds her she must focus on the competition. Because great content and views only come from winners.

It's sort of funny because watching this, even just 20 minutes in. I am reminded of Exhibit A. Not that I’m saying I expect the family to end up murdered and the dad crying bashing his daughters head in. But just the family dynamic.

Families in movies like this are always a mixed bag. Sometimes you can see them actually looking like and coming off as a believable unit. Other times you just go with the head canon that they were adopted.

They make a good family when pictured together. You can see the resemblance. The son takes after their dad. And Tinja takes after her bird killing mom.

But the way the individually act is. Well we’ll see where it goes.

It just makes me tilt my head like a confused dog when we see a mom who is in control of things, sitting at her sons bed side singing him to sleep. Only to hear the little shit demand not once, but twice! That his mom sing louder. Why? Don’t know. But she just smiles, keeps her shit together and continues on. Until her daughter steps in, and joins her mom in singing.

It’s kind of a sweet moment, if not for the fact as happy as mom is that she is having a moment that would be best filmed and put on the blog, she soon gets this look of disgust at the fact her own singing apparently wasn’t good enough to silence her boy, but it took her daughter to get him to calm down and sleep.

A subtle fun moment in the movie and I like how the mom is being played. It just kind of. I don’t want to say is confusing, but is establishing that she’s not so much as in control as we’d thought, so much as she is tolerant and on a razor thin wire she will use to strangle people with.

Her mom is also a bitch. But we knew this.

You can see the resentment in her daughter. There’s a nice scene I really liked played out at her schools gym, as she practices for competition and a girl ask her to come hang out with them. But she has to tell them no she has to run, keep working etc. Hearing them laughing asking why the girl even bothers inviting her knowing she never goes anywhere. She’s just estranged by moms design and wish for fame. While she runs, the look on her face is just. Yeah.

She’s a good actress, the family honestly isn’t that bad. Just not a fan of the son. He’s going to have to work on that.

But mom isn’t a bitch because I said so, no. Mom is a bitch because as she dictates the lives and success of her family, when her daughter comes home from practice. She spots what looks to be her father on a ladder replacing the chandelier, and mom being a bit frisky rubbing his thigh, giving waggling eye looks. She smiles a bit seeing her parents being intimate and playful, until she realizes its not her father, but a hunky repairman who slides down and attempts to kiss her mom. Only for the kiss that would be, to be interrupted at Tinja’s appearance.

BUSTED BIIIIIIIITCH!

Well sort of. She doesn’t even try to hide it. At all.

That night she visits her daughter and ask how practice went, how her day was. Then casually brings up “So you caught us?” she nods and the mom begins explaining to her daughter. The second worst excuse I’ve ever heard when dealing with cheating. Okay maybe 3rd. She informs her daughter that, sometimes adults have, special friends, and well you saw how hot that guy is right? And you know how dorky your dad can be right? Well. Mama just likes to have a little strange on the side. So she tells Tinja to simply keep this a girls secret, and never tell her father. Yay! Situation resolved! This lady even tells her daughter her plans to go away for the weekend, to let this guy fuck her brains out. Because you know. Mother daughter bonding, girls can talk about girl stuff like that.

Problems with other girls, boys she might like, changes through puberty. Bullying, and moms dick game. The power of parenthood and bonding with your child.

Oh that’s right this is a horror film, well don’t worry we got that covered as well. That crow that mom snapped the neck of? Apparently it wasn’t dead. It was Mostly dead. Which isn’t fully dead. So the crow flew off and went to cry in the forest. Because its neck is broken. Which prompts Tinja to roam out and find this poor bird.

Leading to both a fun moment for some of us, but also a definite, Tinja is on the edge moment.

She tries to help the bird, feeling incredibly sorry for it, but the crow wont let her and only cries more, laying on the ground, neck twisted. So, she decides to try and give mercy by picking up a rock, and acting out my favorite Robot Chicken skit where a storm trooper hit an ewok on accident and tries to put it out of its misery, but fails over and over. Until he bashes its head in repeatedly.

Well.

Tinja does the same. She only ended up causing it more pain on accident, tried again only to hear it make a new screaming sound, and finally she went full rage mode and didn’t stop hitting it until the head was gone.

As this is in a forest and everyone knows killing something in a forest invokes Zelda rules. The crow has dropped a piece of loot for Tinja!

Well actually no. Tinja just found the nest the crow was returning to and found a lone egg inside.

Which she claims and takes home, keeping warm and safe under her pillow. An act of kindness as she ended the life of its mother.

Funny I never knew crows made nest on the ground. Huh…

Anyway.

This is her pet project. The one thing she can focus on, after nights, and days of disappointment and a sometimes not so wonderful life. She keeps the egg warm under her pillows and plushies. Which as time goes on, she begins to notice the egg, is somehow. Changing.

From being a small egg, to a medium egg. A medium sized egg with a heartbeat.

That then changes to a large egg. Which she cuts open the belly of her biggest plushy to shove the egg inside of to keep warm and safe. She even takes to talking to the egg, shes embracing adopted motherhood with a monstrous egg pretty well.

Surprisingly.

I am absolutely waiting for this to all go horribly wrong. Like gleefully waiting.

It’s a bit of a different narrative style, but honestly a really good film, and considering this is the first feature film from the director? Color me impressed.

I mean the family seems a bit wonky when you first meet them. But as the film progresses and things go on. It really starts to take shape and subtle give you more and more about them. Without just, outright spelling it out for you. I like that a lot. Most the time, with Hollywood films especially. You get films that have to spell things out for you to the point you can actually shut your brain off and get it. Which is not so good a thing.

But here, for instance.

Mom comes back from her Dick riding weekend and her family is happy with dad baking in the kitchen. The son runs over and despite being covered in melted chocolate, flour and Pazuzu only knows what else. He gives her a grappling bear hug of affection that he will end only once she returns the hug. When dad ask her how the ‘bloggers conference’ went she gives a knowing look to her daughter and says it was great.

After everyone settles back in with mom being back. Tinja looks in on her dad as he plays guitar in his cave room. He seems happy to see her but she’s not sure how to tell her dad what she wants. About mom. The dad ask her “So did your mom tell you about the trip?” then puts on a smile and tells Tinja how mom seemed to really enjoy the conference. He shows off a new guitar he bought and, unsure what else to talk about or why his daughter is there he just. Goes back to playing.

Later on the mom comes to check on her daughter and ask if she can confess something to her. Tinja is excited for some mother daughter time and even enjoys that her mom wants her to join her laying on the bed to talk. Her mom tells her daughter she thinks that she is in love. Which makes Tinja incredibly happy! Until mom tells her its with the hot younger guy she’s banging on the side. And now she has to listen to her mom tell her all about how this guy makes her feel like a woman, and wanted, loved, and how she feels she should follow this and see where it goes. Telling her she plans another weekend away with him.

All of this is great.

We see from how the son reacts hugging the ever loving shit out of his mom waiting for her to return the hug. This kid acts out how he does because he wants her attention, and she won’t give it. It’s like she almost resents him, because he’s a mini version of his father which she can’t really seem to stand. The mom never returns the hug, instead she teases not so jokingly about how he dirtied her blouse with chocolate and baking goods. You see the kids heart sink and he just defeatedly steps aside.

When Tinja goes to see her father, the look he has when he tells her “So you knew about the trip?” the way he says it, the look he gives her. You can almost see him on the verge of tearing up, and you really get that impression he knows what she’s doing. He’s just, he doesn’t know what to do or say to her. Having Tinja tell him she knows and them him go back to moms ‘Conference’ you get the feeling he’s trying to convince himself with his daughters support that that’s all it really was, and not a dick sucking conference. How he turns awkward toward her at the end of their talk and goes back to playing his guitar. It’s not a father unsure how to act with his daughter around being awkward. It’s this awkward moment of questioning is he like this because they both know and he know has to see it on his daughters face that she knows? Or is this just him trying to tell her silently he wants to be alone and not think about it. It’s a well done scene and really well acted. I love it.

The most messed up though still goes to Mom, as it should.

When mom is so into her own world, and keeping the image together of a perfect family, now complicated with falling in love with her side dick. Knowing she was able to keep her daughter from telling her husband. She takes this as meaning she now has a little confidant she can go share her feelings with.

Kids love it when you the adult decide to show trust in them and tell them things. Opening up to other people really does wonders. My cousin was feeling stressed and shitty so I said hey lets get some Chinese, we ate, she talked, I listened and ever since then I’m her bestie. It really helped her.

However that is not this. This is a daughter who was all too happy to have her mom confide in her, even happier to hear her mom say she is in love, and assuming it meant the time away made her realize how much she missed her dad. Only to hear mom tell her the opposite. And having to realize mom is just so happy with her secret affair, she has to tell SOMEONE how she feels and get support from that. So her daughter gets to be that someone. Moms happy, and the daughter is just becoming a meme where you expect to hear The Sound of Silence begin to play in the background.

I’m all for bonding with siblings and parents. But ain’t no way I would’ve appreciated hearing my dad talk about banging.

This comes from a man who grew up in a household full of women, who regularly had to hear about the pains of bras, cramps, wires digging into tits, camel toes and painful jean crotch.

All of which made me a more considerate partner later in life, sure. But I’m not gonna listen to my sister or cousins talk about getting ground pounded by dudes on Ferris Wheels, and I’m not gonna share with them how funny it felt getting my nuts licked standing up in a spa. Some shit you just keep to yourself, or your friends. Or just yourself, and your movie review blog….Anyway.

Because we need more drama in this poor families life. Tinja is trying her best for this competition. There is one spot left and it has her name hopefully written on it. Her coach believes in her, but she just has trouble sticking the landing with her routine. But her mom supports her and believes she can do it. She even visits her to see how its going and supports her even when she falls. THAT is shocking.

But as I said. We need drama. Which comes in the newest member of the sports team. Her fun almost friend neighbor, Reetta. Yep. As you’d guess it. Reetta is level 100 acrobatic gymnast. Executing a flawless routine and spot on perfect landing.

This immediately upsets mother.

Which is a good time to mention. I am not being lazy with her families names. The mom and dad are simply…Mother and Father. Soooo, yeah. Yeah.

Well this will not do. Her baby girl must make this competition, because it’ll be good content for the blog. She needs a winner. SHE herself was an ice skating champion. Her daughter must be a winner like she was. Not weak like her father. So we get a painful montage of mom keeping her daughter until dark at the gym, leaping onto the high bars, leaping to a landing and falling. Over, and over, and over. Until she forms blisters on her hands, which also then pop. And mom wants to keep going.

SO

How about that horror?

Oh don’t worry. It’s not subliminal. It’s not metaphorical. It’s coming.

Lord how it is coming.

We return some time later to Tinja’s bedroom. The egg has grown about, a thousand times over its original size. Like. A hundred thousand times. The egg is human sized. And takes up her entire bed.

How….

How does no one check on this kids room?

We’ll get to the over sized horror in her bed. But seriously.

How many people can say, they never had a parent clean their room, put their clothes away. Check for laundry. HOW DID AN EGG THIS SIZE GO UNNOTICED?!

Fine okay, THERE IS A GIANT ASS DEMON EGG IN HER BED!

Which is about to hatch. Because its time. And shit we are only at the 30 minute mark in an hour and 24 minute movie.

So what do we got! Giant demon? Cute baby demon? Slimy gross monster? BIG BIRD?

Sort of.

Honestly what comes out of that egg, is both cute, and terrifying. It’s a mix of digital effects and…a muppet. I love it. It also looks like a Harpy. It’s a giant sort of bird like creature, without a lot of feathers. And three sharp talons on each hand. And no wings.

I’m gonna cancel out Demon as a possibility here, and I’m going mythical beast. Whatever the hell it is, I like it.

It leaves the worst bloodiest mess on Tinja’s bed and runs screaming out of the room through the window shattering the glass.

THAT the family notices!

No one gave a shit for days about a giant ass hard to miss egg in the bed. But they notice shrieking and glass breaking.

Well this is where the cute horror begins folks.

We meet our baby creature from god knows what realm of reality. It’s really cute. And horrific. It returns to Tinja the next night seeking help. Tinja is the only person its seen, and seems to have imprinted on her. In a lot of ways. Tinja helps pull a shard of glass from the creatures arm, gives it a bath and the two are now awesome super best friends. It’s adorable. And terrifying.

Does the family take notice? Not fucking once.

This thing is hanging out in her room looking like its ready to dance and sing to some Bowie tunes at any moment. It sleeps under her bed, hangs out in the closet. Its pretty chill.

But horror. Yes. Horror.

That shows itself in the way of poor Tinja not being able to sleep because of her neighbors doggo borking in the yard. Her annoyance is not missed by her bird monster baby. The yapping dog gets its attention and just like that. Poof out the window, over the fence, and goodbye doggy.

Yep, they killed a dog. But its cute!

The bird abomination thing nuzzles her mamas face and wakes her up. Just to show off the kill she’s so proud of like “Look ma! Now you can sleep. You know I love you!”

While Tinja is truly grateful for being able to sleep. She just throw up on the floor because I mean. Headless dog bleeding on your bed is going to do that. For sure. Which reminds me. While her monster bird child eats the vomit off the floor adorably. Lets talk about another thing this movie is glossing over, and the family has not dared ask.

Tinja. Has had a giant human sized off on her bed. Hatch. It was full of blood, slime and god knows what other unholy substances and afterbirth.

Now, her bed has had a headless dog bleeding out on it.

Either.

Okay.

Either, her family truly has no interest in her laundry. They are so absorbed in moms infidelity and blogging, Dad blissfully ignoring life’s problems, and her brother screaming for attention. That no one. Not one person notices that someone in the house. Either murdered a homeless man in their bed? Or had the mother of all periods unleashed on their bed AND mattress.

NO ONE NOTICES ANY OF THIS?!

No one has questioned Tinja “Hey honey, um quick seconds. So ah. I was sorting through laundry and um. I noticed blood, torn flesh and what look like bits of egg shell in your bed? Um…is everything okay? Do you need some Pamprin? Did you murder a homeless man or steal and devour an unborn ostrich egg?”

No. Not one bit of concern. This girl is the master of hiding things. She could convert her closet into a meat drying rack and no one would notice. I mean to be fair she is raising a hell spawn abomination in her room and no one questions the loud CLACK CLACK of claws on wood floor or the screeching of the damned coming from her room.

Either they really are that passive, or they figure this is just a really magical and difficult time in a young girls life as she reaches maturity.

ANYWAY

Back to the horror.

Which oh there is horror coming.

See having an unholy abomination of a mythical muppet that feast on flesh and vomit, is going to cause your baby hell spawn to stink. So that means it needs a bath. Which again is a fun time. Baths are always relaxing.

Except when you have a baby bro who has to piss like a race horse and tries shoving his way into the bathroom.

She shoves him away, tells him to please piss outside and get out of her life. Which he doesn’t do. Well he does go back to bed. But he doesn’t piss outside. In fact he pisses in his bed. Did he do it because he’s a little kid? No. He did it to get her in trouble. Because big sister gets all the attention, and he doesn’t. Therefor by sibling law. She must pay.

Which she won’t, and doesn’t.

Because as her brother tries ratting her out to her father about hogging the bathroom and not letting him use it, and her acting weird at night. Like possibly burying a body in the backyard. Dad excused ALL of these allegations. There will be no trial. Why?

Dad looks over the room, never minds the horrible smell of death, and spots little trickles of blood on the bed sheets. He puts together this and her odd behavior in the bathroom, and tells his son to shut up and just walk away. He’ll leave the terror of explaining periods to his son for a later age, and in the hands of a school.

So yeah. Tinja is cool and left alone. Just her whole family assumes she’s on her period now. Which prompts mom to buy her daughter a new hairbrush in celebration. What a time to be a parent. Her daughter is becoming a woman, her husbands soul is crushing along with his heart. She’s in love, and oh she has a son wanting to know where his gift is since his sister gone something.

Well he doesn’t get anything because he didn’t bleed out on his bed sheet! This upsets him greatly, and he has had all he can stand, and he cant stand no more!

So he stands and walks out the room. Returning minutes later with the buried dead body of the dog. Declaring he saw her bury the body and whats more? She KILLED the dog!

Now buy me a goddamn gift!!

Seriously. This mother fucker dug up the dogs body, which he apparently saw sister bury, and drops it in front of everyone, calls his sister a murderer, and awaits praise. Because now she is no longer perfect, and does not deserve gifts. She deserves prison, no gifts, and she must watch him an hour each day playing with a new toy every day for at least a few months.

Well her family is. Selectively concerned.

First there is the matter of the headless rotting dog on their table. Secondly there is the matter of their son having dug up a missing dogs corpse. All of which need explanation. But they need to sort things out before interrogation can begin. So they order him to his room.

He declares this is a house of lies on planet bullshit and before storming off, he shoves his sister to the ground. Because that will strengthen his case and not convince the parents their son might be a dog killer.

As you can imagine, shoving his sister, was not a good idea. As we are alerted to the bird beast suddenly widening its eyes and turning to a glare. This thing is not just imprinted on her, it is freaking linked to her.

Which is kind of cool to see play out this time around. As her brother takes off, he stops midway and decides, of all things. Going into his sisters room is the best idea. Which genuinely has me curious.

This kid pulled out a dead dog body from the ground, to establish his sister us bad. That’s like, the ultimate trump card when trying to put someone down. It’s the ace in your hand. But he’s in her room….looking for an even BIGGER ACE?

Well he finds it. Huddled up under the bed. Does it kill him? No. It just makes him piss himself I hope. God I hope.

Its worth noting that before he enters her room. He. Slides on a paper plate mask he made.

Why? Don’t know.

Seriously why?

I’m guessing he thought of this as some kind of armor for himself and, well that armor sucks, the bird child from hells toilet agrees and slices the mask in half.

The cool part of this. Is whats going on downstairs. We find Tinja on the floor. Seeming to be in some kind of trance or seizure. We soon realize her movements. Are very animal like. She’s making clawing motions with her arms like a baby T Rex. Which just so happen to look how her bird baby is attacking and moving toward her bro bro.

Thankfully to someone, I don’t know who. Dad decides to use the best medicine a parent can recall using to help treat a seizure and or trance. He slaps his daughter. Ending the fit.

Joking aside I honestly have no idea why someone would think slapping someone would resolve their seizure, but then again I am no doctor.

What’s actually scary here…

And I do mean actually fucking scary. Is a little detail that escaped me earlier, and now is seriously messing with me.

Which, holy shit this is great.

I just realized that the bird child from Satan’s toilet, doesn’t just have shark teeth hidden under its beak. It has human molars.

No sooner did I pick up on this. Did the film decide to show us. Yes. What we think is happening, is happening. The bird baby is changing into something more human. In fact, it’s losing its black feathers, and its growing blonde hair. Like its human mama.

Yes, the baby from hell that started as a bird egg is in fact changing into a human. Which is even funnier considering I should’ve caught on that its eyes matched hers almost. We are shown this is a rather, quick and relatively painless transition. As Tinja seems cool with the fact the bird baby has grown four clawed fingers and a thumb, and enough blonde hair to warrant brushing it and making her look cute. She even gets to share Mamas clothes.

It's oddly cute.

Until we see birdy try to and maybe actually attack and kill the poor new neighbor/competition/dogless friend Reetta. Apparently having even one thought of “Grr I hate that she is more talented than me” is enough to set your bird clone baby on someone. Even if you didn’t want them too.

Things are getting serious, and seriously fucked up. I mean this family. Dear lord.

Okay so, this had me laughing and also saying what the holy fuck.

After a day of practice. Mom is playing devils advocate. Asking Reetta if she will compete, and informs her that if she does, then that means her daughter will have to practice ‘extra’ hard to beat her. Tinja does not like this. As they leave for the night, Mom offers Reetta a ride home, but she’s cool with walking home, alone, at night.

Naturally Birdy escapes her closet and goes out for the night, and ends up finding Reetta.

When Tinja notices this in her head. Seeing what I guess birdy sees. She’s freaking out, panicked, asking her mom to turn around. Hoping this would mean they can save her. But does Reetta Meter Maid meet the same fate as her dog? We don’t know. Tinja gasp in a mild freak out and her mom stops driving finally.

SHOWING CONCERN!

FOR HER CHILD!

But mom makes sense of it. She knows whats up. NO she doesn’t blame her daughters period. Instead she tells her, “I know what’s wrong. You are nervous about the competition. I used to get nervous too. You know what the best thing to do is to stop being nervous? Win” and the icing on the cake, is her not so subtle suggestion that, hey. Maybe being at home is stressing her out.

You know. The home where her brother keeps trying to have her committed screaming she’s a monster, the place their neighbors dead dog was buried mysteriously, missing its head. The home where her mom is banging someone else and telling her about it while dad ignores life. Oh and she cares for a mythological creature in her room that hungers for blood and vengeance.

Yeah that’d be a stressful home.

Her suggestion to resolve this? That she and mom spend the weekend at moms new lovers place. Well that’s…escalating. Even her daughter gave her a what the fuck did you just say look.

Now. I am not, a teenage girl. I have never found a mystical egg in the enchanted forest of Finnlin, and raised it to hatch a human bird thing. So I can’t put myself in that mindset. But I can, as a human being. Reason out the logic behind. Deciding to say something about whats going on. 

Granted saying “mother, there is a freakish bird like creature that is turning human, that ate the girls dog, and attacked my brother. It is in my closet, it is protective of me, and I don’t know what to do about it. Help me”, is not the easiest sell in the world. But telling your mom “What the fuck is wrong with you, why are you inviting me to stay with you and your side dick while you get your fuck on? Get the dick out your ears and realize I NEED HELP!!”

But who believes anything a teen says, and what teen has the guts to fire back at their parents when they’re confused, scared, and trying not to get people murdered.

Unfortunately, its going to be a lot less complicated. As it appears once home, Dad encourages his daughter that. She will have fun at side dicks house “Hes a real good man…sorry. Person” So I guess mom decided to actually do what she said when she said run with this and see where it goes. So yeah, She told hubby they’re done, and shes in love.

It’s fucked up. Even worse, when you see the defeated look on his face as he tries telling his daughter how, he always respected that his wife was a woman who knew what she wanted and would go for it. Guy is barely holding it together, and at the same time is trying to politely tell his daughter what I can only guess is, they are settling on a divorce, and she gets Tinja, while dad is stuck with the body dropping son.

Seriously that’s fucked.

Years ago, I am talking 20 pluss years ago. I new this British lady who was a nurse. She had a husband in a wheelchair and two kids. She played an MMO I was in and we became friends. Eventually, she confided that she fell in love with this guy she met, the same guy I knew as being a married guy in his 40’s who worked away from his family in Dubai. Apparently these two were hooking up online, fell in love and he invited her to come visit him. So she did, They had sex every day, everywhere they could. They both told me about this. I did not ask to know.

After she got back, they already talked about when they’d get together again. As it turned out, he said he was separating from his wife. He wasn’t in love with her, she was dragging him down and he loved this lady. She told him she was also willing to be with him and loved him.

She told her husband that yes, she went to Dubai to meet a man she loved. When she came back. She told him the love was real, and she was leaving him and their daughter.

She was ready to go, bags packed, family wrecked.

The guy told her “Well, my wife came down to see me and brought out child, it made me realize what I had and we talked things through and we are not divorcing.”

So yeah. She fucked her whole life up, and the guy never planned to actually leave his wife. I later discovered he did that to another woman online as well. She had to go back to her family and….well that was awkward.

Her daughter was, not the happiest we can say.

Also part of me wonders if Tinja’s mom held a pole online for her blog followers on Perfect Life and asked them if they thought Tero would make a better husband. Maybe they said yes and she’s doing whats best for the blog and her subs.

Laugh with me yes, but know there are women who left their families when they pleaded for them to stop their onlyfans accounts as you know, having your neighbors and kids at school seeing your mom naked isn’t exactly something to be proud of. In my experience from school.

Anyway, life is about to get super fun for someone.

Because yep. She’s headed with mom for the weekend. To Tero’s home.

Which is exactly the opposite of her ‘Perfect life’. Tero lives in a run down two story home. Which he is remodeling. The place looks horrible and rotting. But this is what mama wants. But the surprises don’t end there for Tinja. Apparently her moms new man has a baby girl. He’s a widower and a dad.

Is he a perv? No.

A bad guy? Surprisingly no.

Actually he’s a rather decent dude. The guy by all accounts, despite banging a married woman. Is actually very polite. He seems very chill and surprisingly he’s a big supporter of Tinja. And not in ‘I’m going to win you over and be a new good father’ way. Guy really is good hearted. He just bangs married women.

So the weekend that could’ve and should’ve been from hell. While in a run down place. Is actually going pretty darn well. There’s no murders, or anything to worry about. Mom is back to being happy and taking pictures for the gram. Making sure to crop out her new man. Which even he is not thrilled about. Further proof he is a good guy.

He even tries undoing some of the damage mom has done to Tinja. She spills some food on accident, she looks like she’s ready for a beating or harsh words. But he just tells her no worries, tosses some food of his own and shes happy.

She may not have wanted to like the guy meant to replace her dad. But she likes him. Dude even bought her some gymnast wrist guards with her name on them. Dudes good.

No im not building him up to die.

No he doesn’t turn out to be a perv.

But the nearly faceless baby has found Tinja and wants cuddles. So Tinja isn’t entirely alone. Which is nice, because at least now she has someone she can talk too and drown out the sounds of her mom getting deep dicked upstairs. Seriously her mom is going to town up there.

Of course nothing good last forever. As nice as it is being there. Tinja has to hear the unfortunate knews about her neighbor. She is alive.

Alive!

But horribly mutilated and disfigured.

She’s now missing a hand, her face looks like it was gnaws on by a pitbull and when Tinja goes to visit her at the hospital. The girl grips her hand and begins screaming bloody murder. Forcing Tinja to run back to the banging house demanding answers from her nearly completed twin. It’s creepy but cool. She’s missing a mouth and just has loose flesh hanging from her face. I love the work on this. Top notch.

Well we learn two interesting things. We learn that Tinja can harm her fleshy doppelganger by hurting herself. Which is all sorts of layers of deep to read into there.

And we also learn that her murder hungry twin likes to cuddle and comfort. Which she does.

Its kinda tragic because the only two people in this whole movie to show her any sympathy and sign of actual human caring. Have been a monster, and the man her mom is leaving her dad for. Which that itself. Seeing how he acts around her mom when he sees her with her daughter. It’s refreshing. He gets how her mom is with her, and Tinja sees her mom being that way with his daughter. Her mom is actually babying the..baby. calling her mothers princess. Complimenting her on being so beautiful and well behaved. She’s seeing her mom do this and both hating the baby and hating her mom for making it sound like she’s just. Well. Runner up.

Did someone say hate? Yep. Evil Tinja picked up on that and gives a thumbs up to Tinja. Operation kill the baby is a go.

Giving us an actual tense scene. Tinja has to leave for the fabled competition. But she doesn’t want to go. She knows murder is on the menu now. She tries getting moms new man to come along and bring the baby. But mom says that’s a no go. Because she can’t vlog her new man and his baby, while her current man and forgotten about son are going to be there. Because that wouldn’t be perfect living.

So we get a dangerous edge of the seat go between. Cutting from Tinja at the competition readying to make mom proud by winning the thing, and her evil mostly complete twin. Her dangly flesh face is now full, she’s just got some back teeth still showing and her skin could use some hydration.

What is Tinja to do? Well. The only thing she can. She focuses on seeing what her gal pal twin see’s. Which is a hatchet in hand ready to kill the baby in its crib. She focuses on that, and the hand holding the axe and.

She takes a dive from the high bar.

Yep. She flubs the competition and lands on her arm so her flesh twin feels it and drops the hatchet. Which did not make her happy.

It also alerts  Tero, who rushes up the stairs and sees the mostly human girl in the window, screeching at him before leaping out from the second story window.

I take issue with this now.

I mean. I get whats going to happen. It’s just the how it happens is the part I don’t exactly like. But again I get it.

See earlier before this had happened. Before the competition? It wasn’t really relevant earlier so I apologize for not mentioning it, as it NOW is really relevant. Even more so to the story.

Earlier in the day, possibly the day before. Tero heard Tinja vomiting in her room. So he came upstairs to check on her. Tinja was doing the mama bird thing of eating bird food, and throwing it up into a bowl for her baby evil twin to eat.

Well she tried stopping Tero from seeing this by blocking the door. But he pushed it open. All he could see was what looked VERY MUCH like a none human version of Tinja, on all fours with her face in a bowl of vomit, and wide almost silver gray eyes. Screeching like a banshee and flying toward the door.

His hand got injured being trapped in the door but otherwise he was okay.

What I took issue with was. Here we had a man who was actually reasonable for once. He actually paid attention to Tinja and saw she was being run ragged by her mother and her unreal expectations. The guy seems to read a lot off of people.

But when he saw this monster version of Tinja. He immediately calls her that, and assumes it was her!

Which also seems to have weirded Tinja out as she didn’t seem to make that connection. She actually tries to explain things to him, wants to tell him about the twin. But her mom had shown up and its competition time.

So like I said, sorry about that, I should’ve mentioned it, That’s on me for figuring it wouldn’t become a HUGE STORY FACTOR.

Because now. With her and her mom returning to Tero’s home. He is livid. He wants them both gone. BUT. Not entirely for wrong reasons.

He out right claims Tinja was there moments ago and leapt out the window. Mama ask him if he’s drunk because they just drove back from Competition. Here daughter is still wearing her competition outfit. The evil twin he saw was in a night shirt.

You can see him trying to make sense of it, but he will do that later. For now. He tells her the one thing someone should’ve told her.

He tells mom that she’s self centered. That everything has to be about her, to the point she doesn’t even recognize that her daughter has issues and needs help. She’s so fixed on a ‘perfect life’ and her daughter mirroring her failed competition career. That she can’t see what is evident to anyone that’s actually being a parent to their kid. So he tells them both to get off his land and have a nice fuck right off.

Mom goes off after him to try and reason things out. Tinja waits patiently in the car. When mom returns. Is everything okay? No not really. Is Tero dead? No not really. Mom is just silent. So Tinja reaches out for her moms arm to try and get her attention. Mom responds by testing the airbag of her steering wheel by throwing her own head into the steering wheel repeatedly. Until shes bleeding all over the wheel and her face. She turns to Tinja and tells her calmly. Why can’t you let me be happy.

And with that. The amazing weekend is over, Tero is out of their lives, and mom has to do the drive of shame, back to her weak dicked husband, her annoying imperfect son, and now her troubled loser daughter in tow.

Life is a gift people. And we are also in the home stretch of the movie. The final 20 minutes.

It’s not, exactly what some of you might think is coming. And certainly what I thought. I mean its partly but. It’s surprising and different enough that its not predictable. It’s just sad. But in a good way.

The pair come back home earlier. Dad is shocked to see them, but also you know. Shocked to see his wife smiling while her face is covered in blood.

Dad has a lot of questions. But he’s just going to be happy knowing that everyone is home. And his son is all to smug and happy to remind his sister “You lost”. Never change you little brat.

Well Tinja is trying to deal with everything all at once. A ruined life, her mothers future with a new lover ruined. Friendly neighbor and moms side dick thinking she’s a lunatic hungry for murder. But hey at least the competition is over.

So that’s something.

Well Don’t you cry tonight Tinja. Your evil murderous other half is here. Clawing at the window as all of our Changeling selves do.

Which I really feel this thing is. I’m not all that up on folk tales but I believe Changelings were shapeshifters that usually took the forms of others. Like a mimic but not. You’d have to contact my sister and Jane over at their podcast Broomflicks to find out for sure. But that’s what we’ll go with.

I just ran out of nicknames is all.

Well Tinja doesn’t want to see them, she tells them to go away. She’s very mad at them for attempted baby murder, taring apart her friend, and also making her have to throw up in order to feed her. That I am sure is also a negative.

The Changeling does not enjoy this, and hisses at her. But is still intent on finding a way inside. Which is part of where the oddity that is this family comes in.

I was worried because dad was taking trash out and happened to catch the Changeling on all fours in the grass. He thought it was Tinja and asked her what she was doing. Only to have what he thought was his daughter hiss at him and scurry off doing a crab walk.

He didn’t seem freaked out by this. At all. He just legitimately wondered “Whats my daughter doing out here”, Apparently for him, and Tero. Having her not speak to them, but simply grown hiss and screech at them is, perfectly normal.

I mean she IS a teenager, so basically 80% of what comes out of Tinja is going to be growling hissing and screeching I suppose.

Well the Changeling. God I can’t keep typing that out. Lets change it.

Tonja.

So Tonja finds a way into the house and hides in Tinja’s closet. Tinja is checking on her mom, and. If you didn’t hate this woman already. Get ready to join the club.

Her mom is putting on makeup. Doing her best to hide the steering wheel bruise on her forehead. She picks up her phone and selfie stick and is recording video to edit later, thanking their fans and subs for all the support, and trying to smile about her daughters loss, pretending her life is totally fine.

Which she fails out horribly and only once. ONCE as she attempts another try. Does she actually say something that sounds like an actual caring mother would say, and Tinja hears her. She smiles to her phone and says that in life, sometimes you lose, and losing is okay. Like holy shit. The woman who abused her kid seeking perfect, actually saying its okay to lose. The one thing her lover was able to tell her own daughter, she can now finally say.

To a camera and faceless subs.

But not her daughter. Tinja hearing this steps into the room, calling out to her mom. The look on her moms face. Goddamn. This actress. She went from caring, sincere for the video. To full of contempt and vile. Only responding to Tinja with a growled out “What”.

This poor kid man.

She loses her confidence immediately and falls back on her old routine. She apologizes to her mom, telling her she can do better. Be better, but mom doesn’t care. She tells her daughter she stinks and…Tinja heads off for the most painful looking bath of all time.

It’s a sad contrast. Not just her mothers act for the camera being the closest to a loving caring mom she wants and craves, only to face the reality of her perfectionism making her almost as big a monster as Tonja. But looking back to the bath Tinja gave Tonja when she helped her that first encounter. She was gentle and caring to Tonja, and gave her a nurturing bath.

Now we have Tinja, Skin red and raw. As she scrubs her self as hard as she can. To be clean for her mom. Like damn man. We are near the end of this movie, and after all this girl has gone through. She still has to go through this.

Well, things are heating up, but also getting comical. For reasons.

Tonja is hiding upstairs in Tinja’s closet. Her dad passes and sees her there. He ask her if she’s okay, trying to talk to his daughter. Only to get growled at and see her tuck herself away into the closet not to be seen. He assumes its girl stuff and walks off. Again. He’s just happy everyone is home.

But now its mama’s turn. She finds Tonja hiding in Tinja’s closet and tells her to come with her, because she needs her for something.

 Mom just pulled the possible vehicle of her own destruction out of its closet home, for a video.

Love it. Love all of it.

As Tinja is brushing her hair and getting dressed for bed. She hears her mom talking to Tonja commenting on how ugly she looks, and how shitty her hair is.

Yep. Mom is forcefully brushing Tonja’s hair, assuming its her daughter, and belittling her. Which is also funny not just because this lady is gonna die. But because well. No shit lady! You don’t question how your daughter suddenly looks like they’ve neglected any skin care regiment you beat into them?

But again it’s a nice character moment as Tero was right. She was so self absorbed and cared ONLY for her own shit life, that she really and not actually. Has forgotten what her own daughter looks like. Had she known well. She wouldn’t had started berating and aggressively pulling out tangles of hair.

Or chunks of flesh.

So mom is, a bit startled to say the least. As she tares out a chunk of her fake daughters scalp and some hair. Tonja is not happy about this, obviously. I mean who would be. So she stands up and….lovingly forces cuddles onto mom.

I am not joking. Tonja is, I hate to use the word, but. Struggle snuggling the mom. She’s hugging her, growling and trying to comfort her. Or leech energy off her. I’m not sure how Changelings do what they do. They don’t tell me. I just know they love breast milk. Apparently. Anyway.

Mom is not liking this, she realizes something might actually be wrong with the daughter, her lover told her had problems, and also may have killed and beheaded a dog. In that order. And mauled her friend.

As soon as mom tries breaking the struggle snuggle. Tonja buries her talons into moms back.

Tonja is like my cat. The cuddles end, when she says the end.

Thankfully Tinja comes in to rescue her mom. She pulls Tonja off of her mom and. For the first time. Finally. Mom sees the two of them side by side. Which. Again. If you took care of your kid and paid attention to them. Maybe you’d know which is which. It isn’t exactly like good kirk and evil kirk.

Well Tinja has a growing moment as she tells Tonja to leave! She doesn’t want her. No one wants her. Go away.

Which seems a bit harsh, and I don’t really think you should tell a creature so far known for being murderous something that harsh. But here we are.

The fun comes after this. Tonja has a fit, screams at the two women and….tares her own mouth open. Apparently she is done with this human world, and takes off.

That’s not the fun part. The fun part is the mom. This lady is. So confusing. So clueless.

Finally someone ask Tinja the question, “What, is that?”, and she tells her mom the truth, “I hatched it. It’s responsible for everything”

Her mom hears this, and the reaction she has is. Hm.

On the one hand. She comes off as “Oh thank god, its not you, it’s a beast from folklore and freakin Ireland. My baby isn’t a killer, it’s the damn Irish!”

On the other hand. The way she comes off hearing this? Is creepily like “Oh baby….you had a baby, a miracle baby, and it turned evil on you.”

It’s just. It’s weird man. Her body language and reaction is just so. “Oh I get it now” like, she’s over looking everything up to that moment, or maybe she’s just that evil of a bitch that she’s thankful “Oh thank goodness, my daughter didn’t grow a spine and attack me, it was a stronger better daughter who would actually win competitions. Okay lets kill the bitch who ruined my new side dick”

You can take it how you like. But that’s how I’m seeing it.

Why its being this funny now. I don’t know. But I kinda like it, though it is distracting from the tension. But mom is in the kitchen, picking up a knife for her and her daughter, while telling weak dad and annoying son to stay in their rooms, they gotta destroy an evil Changeling.

Which

THEY ARE OKAY WITH!

Seriously! This family could have a djinn at their dinner table offering up free wishes and a party of changelings scarfing down jugs of breast milk and eating BABIES. And they’d ask if everyones okay or needs any napkins.

This family man.

Now, this final battle we have coming. Is going to be interesting.

Mom ends up being the one to find Tonja first. The two wrestle on the ground and what you and I thought might happen. Happens.

As mom stabs Tonja in the leg. Her daughter screams dropping her knife and grabs her leg.

So we indeed have a bit of a troubling situation. Does one just feel the pain of the other? Or. Would killing one, also kill the other? Or vice versa.

Tinja is actually scared now. Not just from the pain. But well. Again, the difference between ‘Mothers’ that’s played out through the movie.

Tinja wants this horror gone. It hurt people she cares about, People think she did the things it did, but even though she wants it gone. She still cares about her. I guess since the movie is nearly done I’ll give in and use Tonja’s actual name. YES THE MOVIE GAVE HER ONE I JUST DIDN’T CARE FOR IT!. It’s Alli.

SO. Tinja actually cares for Alli. She ask her mom, what she plans to do, as we see Alli suffering on the floor, bleeding out. Mom gives a murderous half smile, and tells Tinja “You wanted to get rid of it yes? So, let me take care of it.” Tinja understands, but she weakly protest, sure she wants Alli gone but. Not murdered like this. Then her maternal side shows “But I hatched her”

Her mom, once again, is not hearing her daughter. She’s focused on killing the thing that has ruined her life. Which just happens to look like her daughter.

She raises her knife high into the sky. Tinja screams out and.

Wait for it…..

Wait for it….

Tinja stands in front of her mother, stopping her from killing Alli. And instead. Her mom ends up stabbing all of 3 inches of her 10 inch chefs knife right into her daughters heart. Tinja sacrificed herself for her daughter…egg..thing.

This kid didn’t even birth the damn egg, and she’s far more…

Was far more considerate, caring and nurturing of a parent than her own damn mom. It’s messed up.

Does her mom regret her decision? Absolutely.

Shes for once in her miserable life crying. She just killed her daughter. Watched her die in front of her. She crumbles to the floor and cries her eyes out.

Meanwhile, Tinja lands ontop of Alli. And Alli…drinks her hatching moms blood. Using it to heal herself fully.

And with that. Alli rolls dead Tinja off of her. Blinks a few times. Her transformation is now complete. She is the perfect mirror image of her daughter. Minus red veins along her mouth. Even her eyes are perfectly matched now, and as Mom cries on the floor. Alli screeches out, only to end her screech with. Calling Tinja’s mom, “Mother”.

Mom looks up at this creature, fully evolved into her daughter whom she just killed. Crying. Then smiling. While Alli…proto Tinja v2 stares down triumphantly.

The End.

That was, a hell of a ride.

I loved it. I genuinely enjoyed the hell out of that movie. It was odd in places yeah. Definitely. But and I don’t say this in a horrible way or putting them down. I just chalk the oddness up to it being Finnish. Thanks to streaming networks I watch a lot of overseas shows and there are some seriously good Swedish, Finnish, and French crime dramas out there. And horror. They just all have a particular way about them that stands out. I imagine sort of the same for other countries watching our films. Again its not bad. Just an observation.

Major kudos to the director, Hanna Bergholm. For this being their first feature. That was a hell of an introduction. There was a surprising amount of layers to the characters and watching it all play out and evolve as the film went on.

I mean hell this is the first review I really feel if I gave a damn I’d rewrite because I know I griped about little things earlier on with people and their behavior. Only to find out through the story everything being explained.

But fuck that, I’m committed and you all know I do these in watch along format. It’s my schtick.

This was a really nicely done story. It plays off, if anything. Like a modern folktale. If you think about it, it really is.

You have a coming of age child go off into the woods and come across an egg. She brings it home to care for it. Hatching a doppelganger that at first seems a friendly visitor and turns out a cautionary tale.

You have a mother who’s more a villain than anything in this film. Who cares more about people loving her and seeing her as a success, that she neglects her own children and forces her daughter to be perfect. The daughter wants to lead a normal life, have a loving mother and normal family. She can’t fit in anywhere and instead. When she finds this egg, and hatches it. Sure its gross and she’s scared. But she can see its suffering and helpless. She shows it all the kindness her mother wouldn’t She treats Alli how she wished her mother would have treated her. She uses her ideal of a good caring mother. To take care of Alli.

The film touches on a lot of issues. Between puberty and the feeling of change, albeit actual horror and body changes. Not being understood or listened to. Even eating disorders as she’s made to basically starve herself to stay the perfect weight to be beautiful and athletic. To a point when she’s told she can enjoy herself at Tero’s and eat all she likes. She literally is just scarfing down everything in the bowl until it spills out. Seeing her make herself vomit into a bowl all to feed this alternate version of herself. I mean that’s some deep shit.

But the biggest thing this film addresses, and reminds me a lot of fairy tales, folk stories. Is the idea they play out in actual horror with Alli. That Tinja is a repressed young girl trying to break out. She wants to scream and run away. Have friends, have fun. Do what she wants to do, not what her mom demands of her. To eat what she wants and just enjoy life being a kid.

The film plays with this through her emotional connection through Alli. Every outburst she has. Alli responds. It’s really well handled without hammering your face with it over and over. Which I give credit to the film for.

Not everyone is into subtly and kudos to the director for doing so. Everything the film addresses, that Tinja has to deal with. It’s all something you can read into and take away lessons from. Like a fairy tale. An incredibly imaginative scary story with value at its core.

You don’t see many of those, and I feel that’s because when most people try, it either fails horribly. Or people make it sound like you have to be at a certain level of intelligence to understand it.

It’s a well told, and great shot film with really good effects work. Beautifully acted with a story I’d love to see again, and show to friends.

Pluss, we need more folk store creatures in films. Honestly this film would fit right in with something the likes of say Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

Its just that kind of fun, sit back and enjoy the ride film. The bits of comedy in it were just fine. Nothing was jarringly bad. I know I joked about moments but that’s me poking at logic which we know doesn’t really exist in films.

Which I gotta mention, because this blows my mind. But stands testament to me I think, that this movie has a lot of staying power. The movie is only, again that magical number an hour and 26 minutes.

But it felt so, so much longer. In the best way.

There was a lot of story to unpack and characters were great when they unraveled through the story.

Again the effects are worth mentioning because they weren’t the greatest, by far. No. But they worked. A sign you are enjoying yourself and the film is when you can notice, especially during the initial hatching scene when Alli stumbles around. You can tell what is very clearly cgi. Even toward the end when she’s drinking Tinja’s blood you can see the digital effect but it isn’t pulling you out of the story. It’s a good blend of practical and cgi. The puppetry was beautiful and bless them for going that route too. I still stand by the creature being cute and beautiful, albeit blood hungry. But the effects really helped to see it, and what we saw through the film.

It still gets me, and I love it, that we had a horror film where the monster, that actually is going around killing, is the least horrible monster in this thing.

Kudos to the actors in this. Like I said I wasn’t entirely sold at first on some of them, but they really pulled through and surprised me.

And a lot of them, more actually like all of them, haven’t really done much surprisingly. But my hopes are that we’ll get to see more in the future from Siiri Solalinna(Tinja), Sophia Heikkilä(mother) and Reino Nordin(Tero) who wasn’t all that horrible of a guy after all.

Actually it kinda makes me laugh because Father(Jani Volanen) was right. Tero IS a good guy. And I was ready to hate the man AND once they showed him being THE ONLY GUY TO BE SYMPATHETIC TOWARD TINJA, I was expecting he’d die. Because characters like that in horror don’t always make it.

Honestly looking into this after finishing it, it sounds like the director really ran with the idea and worked well with the writer. What they came up with was unique and somewhat original, I loved it. Considering the writer (Ilja Rautsi) had the initial idea of a boy finds an egg and hatches it, and the director (Hanna Bergholm) said lets do it, but make it a girl. And the two worked together fleshing out the story. I’m glad they did. It was the best way to go with the story honestly. What’s more that surprises me was that this was the directors first horror film. I honestly feel like, having watched the film, when you see it. You can get that. It offered a unique look at horror and her take on it. It makes the film feel even more one of a kind and I’m all for it.

She told a story about a girl coming of age, living with a mother she felt she’d never be good enough for her or make her proud, a father who’s lost control of his family and no longer listens and a brother that resents her for having their mothers full attention. That stumble upon a chance encounter with a very real, very scary creature.

It’s great and I couldn’t be happier with it.

Honestly when a film makes you wonder if the creature in it really is that evil or just misunderstood.

I mean yes it had murderous intent from its emotional connection to Tinja, but. BUT. It was cute. It was the cutest creepiest bird baby and I still think even with killing the dog, disfiguring the friend, nearly chopping up a baby. That the mom was still the worst of the bunch. I really was half expecting the film to have Alli replace the mom. THAT would have been a hell of a twist and kinda freaky. But the ending we got. That was just messed up. Great but messed up, and still made sense. Somehow!

Absolutely this movie is worth not only checking out. Don’t rent it. Buy it. Buy this movie and add it to your collection. Renting is temporary and this film needs to be watched, shared, and handed out to friends. Or you know have them shell out their own money. Because the director needs to know how impressive a job they did with this, and the cast.

Seriously I am surprised I loved this as much as I did. Go see it and give it some love. Even if a dog dies.

So until tomorrow. If your mom starts a blog about having a perfect life and everything being amazing with her family, do the right thing and create a youtube channel dedicated to exposing the reality of that fake dream. Then you become the content creator with the benefits.

Oh and also be careful of picking up strange eggs in the forest. No seriously be very careful about that. That’s how you get snake bites. GOODNIGHT