Hatching
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A girl finds a strange egg that hatches into something beyond belief, leading to a twisted spiral of terror.
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12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
"If Guillermo del Toro (The Labyrinth of the Faun) and David Cronenberg (The Fly) had joined forces to direct a fable like Pixar's "Inside Out", the result would be a movie like "A Cria Sombria" (also known as "Hatching", its international title). The story is about Tinja, a girl under pressure from her mother to maintain the image of a perfect and successful family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg that she decides to incubate, but what comes out of it is only the beginning of a sinuous spiral of terror. "A Cria Sombria" is a movie directed efficiently, perhaps not extraordinarily, which, through fantasy and terror, presents us with an interesting fable about growing up and exercising our autonomy. Read here our complete review."