@@ncallaway9731 thanks for watching! I'm hoping when the channel grows and gets a bit more reach to do some Live Q&As and probably some Cons to meet and talk movies in a more unfiltered way
Great to hear your spoiler thoughts. Overall a movie we both enjoyed and it’s interesting to talk with others about. I honestly didn’t know what i was watching as everything was going down
A lot of talk about how it didn't make perfect sense - I think that's why I loved it. There's definitely a fine line to that, but its not very often I get so invested in trying to figure out the mystery of what's going on during a movie like I did with this one
I think we have vastly different taste in movies, but I still love your style, and your eloquence. I don't know if it's because of our age difference or what, but you seem much more accepting of modern movie making and I'm just plain sick of it. 🤣 You and I definitely had wildly different experiences with this movie. This was my review. I wish I had your charisma, but I'm much better at writing than I am speaking. In Cuckoo, Tilman Singer attempts to create a mind-bending psychological horror but ends up delivering a narrative so incoherent that it feels like he’s actively trying to confuse the audience. Starring Hunter Schafer as Gretchen, the film follows a character who is less a fully-formed person and more a collection of annoying quirks and mood swings stitched together with the thinnest threads of logic. Gretchen is introduced as a protagonist we’re supposed to root for, but her personality is a grating mess. One minute, she’s a timid wallflower, the next, she’s inexplicably aggressive, lashing out at people for no apparent reason. It’s hard to keep track of who she is supposed to be because her character is so inconsistent that by the end, you might wonder if she’s actually several different people crammed into one body. As for the plot-if you can even call it that-Cuckoo is a tangled web of bizarre, disconnected scenes that seem to be aiming for Lynchian surrealism but land somewhere closer to the fever dream of someone who watched Twin Peaks on a broken TV. The film meanders through its runtime, offering cryptic dialogue and strange imagery that scream “deep” without ever justifying their existence. It’s as if Singer threw every horror trope he could think of into a blender and poured the resulting mush onto the screen, expecting the audience to piece it together. Spoiler alert: there’s nothing to piece together. And then there’s the ending-a nonsensical jumble that feels like the scriptwriter gave up halfway through and decided to just let the credits roll. It’s the kind of ending that doesn’t offer any closure or even the satisfaction of a twist. Instead, it leaves you wondering why you invested any time in Gretchen’s bratty escapades, only to be rewarded with an "artistic" cop-out. It's an hour and a half of head-scratching confusion led by a character you’ll wish had been left on the cutting room floor.
@@retroboomer3197 haha thanks, it's definitely not easy to get across every thought you want to fit into a small video that holds attention. I'm still practicing that as I film my thoughts so you should as well. My tastes have definitely evolved - years ago I wouldn't have been as high on this movie but these days I love a movie that sticks with me, good to bad, and makes me think after I leave the theatre. When I first saw this months ago, I was still waiting to talk about it when it got released this weekend. It's not perfect and definitely gets confusing and unexplained, but I think that's why I loved it so much. It's not often I have an experience where I'm so curious and engaged to figure out what's going to be revealed Ina movie
@@SeanKennyYT i just hadn’t seen a movie in so long, like u explained that had so much going on and keeps u tense but isn’t just horror where there is so many sub genres in the back half of the movie. I love movies like this that keep u wanting to solve the mystery
@@graveyardkey if you liked the weird blend this is going for and haven't seen them yet - a couple of the more creative and weird ones I've seen recently that I enjoy and mention quite a bit are Barbarian and Upgrade
@@graveyardkey absolutely love the Ritual, one of the coolest creature designs ever. Haven't seen Color Out of Space yet but it's sitting on my Shudder watchlist. Few others that aren't AS weird but I'd still consider them to be fun are Cabin in the Woods, Malignant and The Menu
love ur reviews. i wish u lived on the east coast near MD, i need a horror fan friend who i can go to see movies with and talk about them with lol
@@ncallaway9731 thanks for watching! I'm hoping when the channel grows and gets a bit more reach to do some Live Q&As and probably some Cons to meet and talk movies in a more unfiltered way
Great to hear your spoiler thoughts. Overall a movie we both enjoyed and it’s interesting to talk with others about. I honestly didn’t know what i was watching as everything was going down
A lot of talk about how it didn't make perfect sense - I think that's why I loved it. There's definitely a fine line to that, but its not very often I get so invested in trying to figure out the mystery of what's going on during a movie like I did with this one
I think we have vastly different taste in movies, but I still love your style, and your eloquence. I don't know if it's because of our age difference or what, but you seem much more accepting of modern movie making and I'm just plain sick of it. 🤣 You and I definitely had wildly different experiences with this movie. This was my review. I wish I had your charisma, but I'm much better at writing than I am speaking.
In Cuckoo, Tilman Singer attempts to create a mind-bending psychological horror but ends up delivering a narrative so incoherent that it feels like he’s actively trying to confuse the audience. Starring Hunter Schafer as Gretchen, the film follows a character who is less a fully-formed person and more a collection of annoying quirks and mood swings stitched together with the thinnest threads of logic.
Gretchen is introduced as a protagonist we’re supposed to root for, but her personality is a grating mess. One minute, she’s a timid wallflower, the next, she’s inexplicably aggressive, lashing out at people for no apparent reason. It’s hard to keep track of who she is supposed to be because her character is so inconsistent that by the end, you might wonder if she’s actually several different people crammed into one body.
As for the plot-if you can even call it that-Cuckoo is a tangled web of bizarre, disconnected scenes that seem to be aiming for Lynchian surrealism but land somewhere closer to the fever dream of someone who watched Twin Peaks on a broken TV. The film meanders through its runtime, offering cryptic dialogue and strange imagery that scream “deep” without ever justifying their existence. It’s as if Singer threw every horror trope he could think of into a blender and poured the resulting mush onto the screen, expecting the audience to piece it together. Spoiler alert: there’s nothing to piece together.
And then there’s the ending-a nonsensical jumble that feels like the scriptwriter gave up halfway through and decided to just let the credits roll. It’s the kind of ending that doesn’t offer any closure or even the satisfaction of a twist. Instead, it leaves you wondering why you invested any time in Gretchen’s bratty escapades, only to be rewarded with an "artistic" cop-out.
It's an hour and a half of head-scratching confusion led by a character you’ll wish had been left on the cutting room floor.
@@retroboomer3197 haha thanks, it's definitely not easy to get across every thought you want to fit into a small video that holds attention. I'm still practicing that as I film my thoughts so you should as well. My tastes have definitely evolved - years ago I wouldn't have been as high on this movie but these days I love a movie that sticks with me, good to bad, and makes me think after I leave the theatre. When I first saw this months ago, I was still waiting to talk about it when it got released this weekend. It's not perfect and definitely gets confusing and unexplained, but I think that's why I loved it so much. It's not often I have an experience where I'm so curious and engaged to figure out what's going to be revealed Ina movie
I loved the movie
Loved your review
Love the headband!
Appreciate it!
Great review. I loved this movie. Subbed ❤
@@graveyardkey glad you enjoyed it as much as me! welcome to the channel and let's hope for more original horror movies like this!
@@SeanKennyYT i just hadn’t seen a movie in so long, like u explained that had so much going on and keeps u tense but isn’t just horror where there is so many sub genres in the back half of the movie. I love movies like this that keep u wanting to solve the mystery
@@graveyardkey if you liked the weird blend this is going for and haven't seen them yet - a couple of the more creative and weird ones I've seen recently that I enjoy and mention quite a bit are Barbarian and Upgrade
@@SeanKennyYT Love both of those movies. Color Out of Space and The Ritual are awesome too
@@graveyardkey absolutely love the Ritual, one of the coolest creature designs ever. Haven't seen Color Out of Space yet but it's sitting on my Shudder watchlist. Few others that aren't AS weird but I'd still consider them to be fun are Cabin in the Woods, Malignant and The Menu