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.
Practical Effects
The creature suit is disgustingly tactile, no CGI cop-outs.
Acting
Siiri Solalinna's physical performance is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Bergholm's control of domestic dread rivals early Polanski.
Director
Hanna Bergholm
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The creature was played by martial artist Jari Manninen in a 20kg practical suit taking four hours to apply.
Bergholm cited Black Swan and Carrie as touchstones, but the film's real horror is Finnish 'sisu' culture twisted into toxic resilience.
FI
