Horror film “Cuckoo” in Kino: Gretchen alone in Märchenwald

As a teenager the world seems to be coming out of the fire. Everything is a bit shaky. Were those adults trembling? In fact, it’s weird now. So it’s Gretchen (Hunter Schafer). He’s 17 and his wife Mutter is lost.

If we have never been so happy, but with my father (Márton Csókás) and the new family, then the stupid Alma (Mila Lieu) with Stiefmutter, in a holiday home in the Alps, can be seen.

When Architect de Bau has created one of his new projects. Gretchens new Zuhause: a Designerhaus am Rande des Märchenwaldes. On the Arbeitsplatz: a hotel renovation, and Jack Nicholson has lost his lost house. It was a passion, it is not strange – it is a life-threatening problem.

Family drama like Schreckenskabinett

Gretchen is the main character in Tilman Singer’s horror film “Cuckoo”. A way has been found to perform an installation – with another 35 mm camera on film material with a wonderful color – an unedited rework. Not only for the sake of tension: Das Grauen is being used as a metaphor for the teenage angst his main character.

Singer on the foundation of the family dramas is a schreckenskabinett: Kaal schon with Gretchen of a woman (Kalin Morrow) in Trenchcoat and Kapuze verfolgt. In an imaginary situation, the youthful night can go through the forest. First, the woman saw that the woman had long told the Baumrei, when she did not continue, Kopfhörer began Mädchen heran. Then it is a hint in the street.

The laterns weld in the shell and the publications are nice, but these are not so good in the end. Who is the singer in the film who conducts – Gretchens, the Frau and the des Publikums –, is a source of art.

“Cuckoo” is the second film of the Leipzigers, Jahrgang 1988. Schon mit seinem Debüt “Luz” (2018), seinem Diplomfilm an der Kunsthochschule Köln, open barte der Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Gespür für Atmosphäre, Einfallsreichtum and a real style.

“Luz” is found in American Kinos and is incorrectly branded by the production company Neon. It specializes in the use sublime horror – play mausert in the orchestra Serienkiller-Creeper “Longlegs” by Sommer-Hit.

Neonstattete Singer for „Cuckoo“ with a moderate budget out. Enjoy Dan Stevens (der Roboter with ‘Ich bin dein Mensch’), Jessica Henwick (‘The Royal Hotel’) and for all ‘Euphoria’-discovery Hunter Schafer Starpower for his project to tension.

Horror with a warm atmosphere

Stopping the director and author of the book does not intend to use “Cuckoo” – no comments on the characters of Spielberg, Argento and De Palma – completely in B-Movie-Sonderbarkeiten zu tauchen. Entsprechend stiften alle Enthüllungen über de Trenchcoat-Nemesis und de Machenschaften von de somnambulen Ressortleiters (Stevens) zijn zijn zeetzliche Verwirrung, if so zur Aufklärung beitragen.

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Nur so fell: The mysterious Frau is able to experience a Ruf, the ihre Mitmenschen in Trance versetzt – von Singer schlüssig über einen Zeit-Loop in Szene setzt. Gretchens Halbschwester shines from diesem Ruf geradezu angelockt zu be.

The main characters for the crazy laughing ‘Cuckoo’ with a warm feeling on the horror genre are selected. If there is a blind sin, you have to admit that Gretchen sich zur Retterin aufschwingen is.

When Hunter Schafer lands his first Kino Hauptroller reichliche Gelegenheid, he’s billed as a blood-drunk “Final Girl.” When Tilman Singer, the Gen-Z icon who watches the German horror in Tannenwald and wins a cookie jar, it’s nothing less than a coup.

The “Euphoria” star brings happiness with pleasure, pride and well-being – and seduce the Zweitwerk of the young directors who radiate glamour. Weiß der Kuckuck, wohin Singers Reise in de Filmwelt noch führen wird.