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I Have So Very Many Questions About Cuckoo’s Time-Loopy Ending

What in the name of bird flu is this movie trying to say?

But inGerman director Tilman Singer’s shrieking horror feature, Cuckoo, an Overlook Hotel–like mountain resort sends Hunter Schafer down a terrifying, puke-filled rabbit hole. Somewhere between the chloroform, the introduction of a humanoid bird-woman species, and a prolonged shoot-out throughout which one character keeps a cigarette dangling from his mouth, you might feel a little lost.What in the name of bird flu is this movie trying to say and, also, how does literally any of this “brood parasite” thing work? Gretchen’s mother recently died, and tellingly, we first see her riding up to her new digs in the movers’ truck while Luis drives ahead with his wife, Beth (Jessica Henwick), and their daughter, Alma.

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