Hunter Schafer Faces Horrors in Neon Movie

Hunter Schafer learns that not all European getaways are significantly enjoyable within the first trailer for horror flick Cuckoo.

Neon releases Tilman Singer’s characteristic in theaters Aug. 9. Cuckoo stars Schafer as Gretchen, a teen who will get greater than she bargained for after accepting a job from Herr König (Dan Stevens) at a resort within the German Alps. Rounding out the forged are Jessica Henwick, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas, Greta Fernández and Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey.

“How would you want to return work for me on the resort?” Stevens asks within the trailer. Later, Schafer desires to know, “Why did you deliver us right here?”

Singer (Luz) wrote and directed the film that premiered on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition in February and likewise screened at SXSW. Thor Bradwell, Markus Halberschmidt, Ken Kao, Ben Rimmer, Josh Rosenbaum and Maria Tsigka function producers.

In his assessment for The Hollywood Reporter, chief movie critic David Rooney wrote, “In Schafer and Stevens, it has two fiercely compelling adversaries. It’s finally too foolish to be actually chilling, however with Neon behind it, Cuckoo may simply be cuckoo sufficient to attract some cult consideration.”

Schafer is understood for taking part in Jules Vaughn on HBO’s Emmy-winning drama sequence Euphoria. The actress appeared in Lionsgate’s 2023 motion title The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and will be seen in Sorts of Kindness, Searchlight’s forthcoming anthology characteristic from director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Issues) that additionally stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe.

Stevens stars in Warner Bros.’ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which is at present in theaters, and likewise has Common’s Abigail debuting later this month.