Cuckoo

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I love Cuckoo

Despite all my love for Dan Stevens and Hunter Schafer, I can speak objectively about the flaws of the horror film Cuckoo. And in my opinion, it has only one — a lack of runtime. I think the film needed about half an hour more to explain the experiments of Dan Stevens’s character in greater detail.

Aside from a small plot hole, I have no complaints about the film.
Dan Stevens plays the owner of a hotel nestled in the beautiful forests of Germany. But in reality, he, much like Josef Mengele, conducts experiments on people. Opposing him is Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) — a stylish, rebellious, traumatized teenage girl grieving the death of her mother.

She gets injured, one after another, walking around with a broken arm and a bandaged head. It evokes both a smile and empathy at the same time. The director shows this in a slightly comical way without ever slipping into comedy, and that’s really cool. It’s rare to see that in films.

Cuckoo has a great visual style, color palette, music, direction, and an original plot.

Considering my long-standing love for Dan Stevens, and now, after watching Cuckoo, for Hunter Schafer too — I literally fell in love with her at first sight — I can’t give it an objective rating.

I started watching the series Euphoria with the equally amazing Zendaya (who I dream about at night) only after watching Cuckoo, so I discovered Hunter Schafer for myself precisely in this film. And yes, only after watching Cuckoo did I find out who she was before. But that doesn’t cancel out my love for her.

Now she has starred in the series Blade Runner 2099.