After scaring up $6 million in theaters earlier this year, NEON’s horror movie Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens is now headed home to Digital, we’ve learned. Award-winning film studio NEON announced today that audiences will be able to enjoy Cuckoo for digital purchase and rental starting tomorrow, September 17th. The film will be […]
After scaring up $6 million in theaters earlier this year, NEON’s horror movie Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens is now headed home to Digital, we’ve learned.
Award-winning film studio NEON announced today that audiences will be able to enjoy Cuckoo for digital purchase and rental starting tomorrow, September 17th.
The film will be also available on Blu-ray and DVD starting October 22.
Following his festival sensation Luz, German director Tilman Singer has once again succeeded in creating an atmospheric and visually outstanding horror trip with an original plot and perfidious twists. Cuckoo features Euphoria star Hunter Schafer in her first leading role, hailed as a “terrific final girl performance” alongside exhilarating performances from Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), and Greta Fernandez (A Thief’s Daughter).
Shot on 35 mm, the film was produced by NEON, Fiction Park, and Waypoint Entertainment. Cuckoo also features an original song ‘Gretchen’s Song” with vocals by the film’s star Hunter Schafer, which was released last month on all platforms.
Cuckoo tells the story of 17-year-old Gretchen (Schafer) who leaves her American home to live with her father and moves into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König (Stevens), her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma.
Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.
Meagan wrote in her review out of SXSW, “There’s inventive worldbuilding on display that sets this high-concept horror movie apart and a few intense horror cat-and-mouse scenes that deliver palpable tension. But Singer approaches it with a playful sense of humor that only further nudges Cuckoo into the realm of weird cinema. It’s so refreshingly unconventional and unpredictable in every way, right down to its raucous, entertainingly silly finale, that it’s hard to care about all of the plot that gets discarded along the way.”
