Cuckoo Gets Freaky, Plus Interviews with Writer/Director Tilman Singer and Stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On the August 9, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about Tilman Singer’s new movie, Cuckoo, and present interviews with Singer and stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.
In Our Feature Presentation: Cuckoo Review: Hunter Schafer Soars In This Screeching Ride Of Repulsive Sci-Fi Body Horror [Overlook 2024]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. |
| 0:01.8 | Today is Friday, August 9, 2024. |
| 0:04.4 | On today's episode of the show, |
| 0:05.6 | we're going to be talking about Tillman singer's new movie Kuku |
| 0:08.8 | and present interviews with singer and stars Hunter Schaefer |
| 0:11.9 | and Dan Stevens. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:14.0 | I am an editor at slashfilm.com |
| 0:16.0 | and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor, |
| 0:18.0 | B.J. |
| 0:19.0 | Calangelo. Hi, hi, hi ya. |
| 0:21.0 | All right, B.J, as per usual with these Friday episodes of the show, what we're trying to do here is we're going to |
| 0:27.0 | get into some general thoughts about this movie and then we'll clearly mark some spoiler stuff. |
| 0:31.5 | So like broadly speaking, before we get into spoilers. What did you think about this movie, Kuku? |
| 0:36.0 | Hell yeah, freak shit. I was very, very lucky to see Kuku at the Overlook Film Festival a few months ago and I have not stopped thinking about this movie. |
| 0:49.0 | It is so weird, it is so cool, it is playing with so many different genres and so many different |
| 0:56.3 | omages to other movies, which I'm just very, very, very obsessed with. The way that I'll kind of like fast pitch it at people is that like when |
| 1:07.1 | it's a horror movie it feels like like this weird amalgamation of like Cronenberg and Argento and even some like don't look now and then when it gets into like more |
| 1:19.1 | Sci-Fi elements it feels like all those creepy sci-Fi films from like the 80s and 90s that like were not for kids but kids could watch them and then there's also just so much heart in this movie |
| 1:31.0 | When it feels like it shouldn't be there. There's so much going on here. I love this movie. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah, yeah, that's a great pitch. I think all of those things are very, very true. I came away from the movie liking it, |
| 1:42.2 | even though I feel like I didn't fully get it if that makes sense. |
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