{"id":16933,"date":"2024-10-25T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16933"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T22:40:24","slug":"cuckoo-2024-tilman-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16933","title":{"rendered":"Cuckoo (2024, Tilman Singer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Schafer (<em>Kinds of Kindness<\/em>) just lost her mom and is reluctantly stuck with her dad&#8217;s family for the season, working for suspicious Dan Stevens at a secluded German hotel where people are always barfing in the gift shop.  Sometimes there&#8217;s an attack or a freakout and the whole movie gets stuck in a fluttery time loop.  She&#8217;s joined by Lando (Jan Bluthardt from Singer&#8217;s also-cool <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13640\">Luz<\/a><\/em>) who wants to eliminate the alien creatures Dan is fostering, which include Hunter&#8217;s half-sister, so she&#8217;s now trying to save her family from both these men and the evil mom-aliens with her one good arm, a knife, and a half-working walkman as protection from alien time-screams.  Gets a little bit too explainy &#8211; I&#8217;m looking for my bizarre rural euro-sci-fi to be narratively calibrated somewhere between this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15303\">Earwig<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>With this and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16932\">Longlegs<\/a>, murderous moms are in vogue:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cuckoo2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Hunter&#8217;s music sounds cool, too:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/cuckoo1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Schafer (Kinds of Kindness) just lost her mom and is reluctantly stuck with her dad&#8217;s family for the season, working for suspicious Dan Stevens at a secluded German hotel where people are always barfing in the gift shop. Sometimes there&#8217;s an attack or a freakout and the whole movie gets stuck in a fluttery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,712,122,2019,2690,2326],"class_list":["post-16933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-aliens","tag-germany","tag-pregnancy","tag-tilman-singer","tag-time-loop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16943,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions\/16943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}