Cuckoo: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick horror movie gets a May release date (2024)

Nearly two years have gone by since we heard that production had wrapped on Cuckoo, a new horror film from writer/director Tilman Singer that stars Hunter Schafer (Euphoria), Dan Stevens(The Guest),Jessica Henwick(Love and Monsters), Marton Csókás (Freelance), Greta Fernández (Santo), and Jan Bluthardt (Tatort). Now we finally know when the movie is going to be making its way out into the world: Neon has announced that they’ll be giving Cuckoo a theatrical release on May 3rd.

At one point, it was announced that Gemma Chan (Eternals), Sofia Boutella (The Mummy2017), Zita Hanrot (Love, Death & Robots), Proschat Madani (Walking on Sunshine), and John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich)would be in the movie as well, but it looks like most of them had to drop out of the project before filming began.

Details onCuckooare being kept under wraps. This is the second feature for Singer, following the 2018 supernatural horror filmLuz, which Bluthardt had a role in.Luztold the story of “a young cab driver fleeing from the grasp of a possessed woman, whose confession could endanger the lives of everyone who crosses her path.”

Several of Singer’sLuzcollaborators joined him onCuckoo. In addition to Bluthardt, also returning fromLuzwere cinematographer Paul Faltz, composer Simon Waskow, and production designer Dario Mendez Acosta.

Cuckoowas financed by Neon. The film is being produced by Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer, in a cooperation between Germany’s Fiction Park and the States’ Waypoint Entertainment. It’s executive produced by Tom Quinn, Jeff Deutchman, Emily Thomas, and Ryan Friscia for Neon.Additional funding came from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, HessenFilm, and the German Federal Film Fund.

A first look image showing Schafer’s character can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Are you interested in Cuckoo, and does this seem like something you would want to check out during its May theatrical release? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

I’m interested because of the cast (I haven’t seen Luz yet), but I’m also hoping we’ll have more information to go on soon.