Hatching

Hatching (2022)

Pahanhautoja

She's coming out of her shell.

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. What hatches is beyond belief.

Date of release
2022-03-04
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (524)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Horror, Fantasy
Director
Hanna Bergholm

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $659K
  • Budget: €4M
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer

Hatching is a 2022 Finnish satirical absurdist psychological body horror film directed by Hanna Bergholm, written by Ilja Rautsi and starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen and Reino Nordin. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 23 January 2022 and was released theatrically in Finland on 4 March 2022 by Nordisk Film. It won the Grand Prix and the Prix du Jury Jeunes at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer 2022.

Production

Director Hanna Bergholm began casting around 2018. Casting for the role of Tinja was described as challenging due to it being a demanding dual role, as the actor would be required to portray both Tinja and the monster Alli.

The creature was portrayed by an animatronic puppet, created by lead animatronic designer Gustav Hoegen and his team. As the monster evolves, instead of the puppet, it is played by different performers. The special effects make-up was designed by Academy Award-nominated effects artist Conor O'Sullivan.

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