When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Acting
Eva Melander's transformative physical performance through prosthetics.
Practical Effects
Creature design that makes you feel things you can't name.
Writing
Adapts Lindqvist's story into something even more feral.
Director
Ali Abbasi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film draws from Scandinavian changeling folklore, where troll children were swapped for human infants—here twisted into commentary on who truly lacks humanity.
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