Hatching(2022)
2022 · Hanna Bergholm · 87 min
12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Horror · Fantasy
6.2508 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Hatching scares
There's a queasy, tightening pressure to this one, like watching a family smile through gritted teeth while something underneath is rotting. The pace is patient and quiet, letting discomfort build through small domestic moments rather than sudden scares, then pays it off with sticky, skin-crawling body horror. It's less about being frightened and more about feeling unwell, especially around themes of control, image, and growing up in a home that demands perfection. Good for viewers who like slow, emotionally loaded horror with a strange creature at its center rather than shocks and gore for their own sake.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Hatching rates psychological 5/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 12 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 78 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, uneasy domestic drama that keeps tightening its grip until the last stretch turns into a nonstop squirm.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5.
How scary is Hatching?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Hatching rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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