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‘Cuckoo’ Director Tilman Singer on Creating the Hooded Woman and Why Mystery and Horror are the Perfect Pair: ‘It’s Like Vanilla and Chocolate Ice Cream’
'Cuckoo' director Tilman Singer discussed cinematic influences, his love for wide-angle lenses and why horror and mystery make the pair.
Because of the cuckoo’s rapid development cycle, the chick hatches faster than the rest of the clutch, and once out of its egg, it will instinctually push the host’s offspring out of the perch. With “Cuckoo” now screening nationwide, Singer sat down with Variety to discuss subconscious cinematic influences, his love for wide-angle lenses and why mystery and horror make the perfect genre pairing. And so what ends up happening is these host parents, usually smaller birds, feed this gigantic cuckoo chick after their offspring already died because their eggs get thrown out of the nest.
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