Cuckoo

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Cuckoo

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2024,

1h 42m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.

Critics Consensus

Directed with inventive flair by Tilman Singer while given flavorful personality by stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Cuckoo is a madcap madhouse horror that's on the right side of deranged.

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Adam Nayman

Toronto Star

Jun 17, 2025

3/4

To Singer’s credit, it’s bracing to encounter a semi-mainstream horror movie that’s willing (and eager) to subordinate narrative logic to matters of atmosphere.

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Claudia Puig

FilmWeek (LAist)

Aug 28, 2024

It's not very developed, so we don't get invested in their scary shenanigans.

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Anton Bitel

Sight & Sound

Aug 28, 2024

Amid unsettling sound design and plotting that is in every sense loopy, questions are raised about nature and nurture, and about human bonds that go beyond the conventional norms of genetics and biology.

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Don Kaye

Moviefone

Jul 7, 2026

7/10

‘Cuckoo’ starts off on a weird note and gets even stranger from there, finding a nice balance between a serious sense of dread and an underlying tone of camp for most of its running time.

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Yasmin Kleinbart

InBetweenDrafts

Apr 14, 2026

7/10

Stevens and Schafer rule, and the scares are pretty solid.

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Dec 4, 2025

8/10

The scares are few, but the tension is high. Singer does a good job at maintaining the feeling of being trapped in various ways... It is engaging throughout, but gets a little sketchy towards the end where it wedges in all the necessary exposition.

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Tilman Singer

Director

Hunter Schafer

Gretchen

Dan Stevens

Herr König

Jessica Henwick

Beth

Marton Csokas

Luis

Jan Bluthardt

Henry

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Synopsis

Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.

Director: Tilman Singer
Producer: Ken Kao, Josh Rosenbaum, Markus Halberschmidt, Maria Tsiga, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer
Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Tilman Singer
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: NEON, Fiction Park, Waypoint Entertainment
Rating: R (Brief Teen Drug Use|Bloody Images|Language|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 9, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 17, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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