Cuckoo (2024) Movie Review

I saw this film at SXSW and the Overlook Film Festival. This review is pulled from my coverage of those festivals.

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Directed by Tilman Singer
Written by Tilman Singer
Produced by
Markus Halberschmidt
Josh Rosenbaum
Maria Tsigka
Ken Kao
Thor Bradwell
Starring
Hunter Schafer
Jan Bluthardt
Marton Csokas
Jessica Henwick
Dan Stevens
Cinematography Paul Faltz
Edited by
Terel Gibson
Philipp Thomas
Music by Simon Waskow
Production
companies
Neon[1]
Fiction Park
Waypoint Entertainment

Hunter Schafer as Gretchen
Dan Stevens as Herr König
Jessica Henwick as Beth
Jan Bluthardt as Henry
Marton Csokas as Luis
Greta Fernández as Trixie
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as Ed
Konrad Singer as Erik
Proschat Madani as Dr. Bonomo
Kalin Morrow as The Hooded Woman

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[Robalexe]

The amount of different shirts in a 5 minute review is impressive

[alikhalil]

Thanks so much for being one of the few big movie review youtubers who actually keeps a consolidated list of all the equipment they use for videos. I’ve been watching alot of your videos this last week as i’m looking to start my own channel. I really liked your top 10 tips for youtube videos, I also like your interview series with Cody leach, i’m sure you get this alot but thank you so much for being open and sharing your tips to success instead of gatekeeping the information. I hope one day my channel is big enough for me to interview you, until then keep doing what you’re doing Sean! God bless you😊

[jessicahutchinson]

To me this movie left me with more questions than answers. Like how did this start? Who was the blonde woman with the red eyes? What happened to her step mom and dad? How tf did that doctor survive a bullet to the chest?

[narukamizanagi]

I’m seeing it with my friend Sayurday. Cody Leach loved it and described it as being pretty similar to barbarian in terms of shock value and craziness

[MichaelTomsyck]

Pretty cool how Sean was able to change his lights and shirts in the span of a five minute video!

[andrewtessmer]

I can sum up this movie in a single word. BONKERS.

[joshhickeysmoviereviews]

Off topic but Borderlands has a 3% on RT. Plan on reviewing it?

[MTA]

For once my childhood without cable paid off because I ended up watching a lot of nature docs on PBS. It helped me feel a lot smarter than my friends while watching this movie 😂

[Trill_Tour]

Everything I've heard about this movie reminds me of "A Cure For Wellness" which I found very underrated

[Millenniowl_]

I need to know what the song from the credits! Pls help!

[seanohalloran]

Hopelessly awful. A study in how not to make a movie. Hunter Scaffer is great though and I hope she gets a movie worthy of her talent. See “Longlegs” instead. Great video!

[Bitter_Popcorn]

Let me tell you, this movie was a disjointed, fragmented mess!
I wanted to walk out with about 30 minutes left, but my friend was sleeping, and I didn't want to wake him. This movie was all over the place with so many things never explained. The trailer made it look like a monster movie, but it wasn't. The only decent part was the bike chase we saw in the preview.
I don't get the rating; maybe they saw a different movie than I did. Who can make sense of what they saw? So many questions with no answers.
And then there's the ending—a confusing mess that feels like the writer got drunk and forgot the plot of the movie halfway through. It doesn't offer any closure or even a good twist. Instead, it leaves you wondering why you wasted your time.
In 'Cuckoo, ' Tilman Singer tries to make a mind-bending horror movie but ends up with a story so confusing that it feels like he's trying to mess with the audience and Hunter Schafer plays Gretchen, a character who is more annoying than interesting.
It's an hour and a half of confusion led by a character you'll wish had been left out. Things that are not scary and are used too much— twitching bodies, heart beating in skin, lady screaming like a dinosaur, wide open mouth villain.
This movie feels like your friend showed you two hours' worth of clips that he wants to make a movie with but hasn't started editing yet.

[crystalshaw]

Weird, apparently is the new buzz word

[agahnim]

So many "'ceptions" in that video....

[Jakob-wvjr]

Sean this isn’t about the video but are you ganna rank all the mcu films since Deadpool and wolverine is now apart of the mcu I’m not trying to rush you tho

[DARTH-KTULU]

This was so disjointed that any tension for scares was completely lost. Was this written by AI? I knew about as much leaving the theater as I did watching the trailer, as there’s more questions than answers.

[bobnapier]

I enjoyed it, but it was just a little too incoherent

[catfishunter]

I didnt care for this movie. I was really looking forward to it. Story just didnt do it for me.

[Raspotnik]

One of the worst movies Ive seen. I hated it.

[kenjeguides]

Oddity was very disapointing. There is no substance. After the initial scene with man at the door the film goes dead and nothing happens until towards the end. Even at the end there is very little amount of people in this film there isnt much that can be done but kill off a few people...wow (not). Long Legs is the same way very slow burn where nothing happens the first hour and a half. In relation to Silence of the Lambs where movie pops off right away and there is this battle of wit between everyone and you're heavily immersed into everything that is going on.