IFC Midnight has just released the spine-tingling new trailer for HATCHING, which will have its premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, in the Midnight category. The Midnight section of Sundance has hatched some remarkable titles including The Greasy Strangler, The Blair Witch Project, and Hereditary. Here we have an ooey-gooey creature feature and coming of age story that we cannot wait to see.

In HATCHING, 12-year-old gymnast, Tinja is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see.

HATCHING is a fascinating portrait of the nature of maternal instinct, as Tinja battles to come to terms with the genuine emotional bond with her grotesque and bloodthirsty new found family while contending with the fraying connection to her own demanding mother.

HATCHING will premiere in Sundance virtually on January 22, 2022 at 11:55pm MT in the Midnight section, and the film will open in theaters and on digital/VOD April 29, 2022 from IFC Midnight.