In Cinemas Thursday 26th May
Palace Nova East End
Finland, Rated MA 15+, Horror
Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is an up-and-coming gymnast who is trying desperately to live up to her mothers very high expectations. Mother (Sophia Heikkila) is very demanding and doesn’t like anything except perfection in pretty-well everything! She is obsessed with producing a video blog portraying a perfect happy family. The first scene shows her filming the family sitting, smiling and happy on the lounge. A sudden bang disturbs them and when Tinja opens the door, a crow flies in. Trying to catch the elusive bird leads to a lot of destruction of lovely ornaments and a chandelier-style light fitting. Tinja throws a cloth over the bird and gently picks it up. Her mother (also gently) asks Tinja for the bird, and promptly snaps its neck and tells her daughter to put it in the recycle waste bin.
Tinja is woken during the night to loud noises from the adjacent woods, and discovering the bird missing from the bin, finds the injured creature in the ground in the forest. When it won’t let her pick it up, she puts it out of it’s misery, but discovers a lone egg. She takes it back to her room and keeps it warm. The egg grows, and grows, and grows – making an emu egg look like a quail eff! She can hear a heartbeat from the shell. After discovering that her mother is keeping a secret relationship, but asked to keep it between them and not tell her father, Tinja is lying with her head on the egg and her tears seem to be the trigger for it to hatch!
When something pretty ghastly comes out, Tinja hides in the closet. Thinking it is all clear, she comes out only to be confronted to the creature. However, it thinks Tinja is its mother. We soon learn that they seem to be able to communicate, and the creature can sense Tinja’s emotions and responds to those – with some terrifying results. Conversely, Tinja also seems to be able to sense when the creature, which she names Alli, is about to do something horrible. Alli gradually takes on the form of Tinja, so the latter gets accused of some of the atrocities.
There are many tense moments throughout the movie , and destruction of Alli seems to be the only way out! How does that work out? Well, you had better go to Palace Cinema Nova East End to find out 😜.
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