Hatching - The Yoked Edit (distilled horror edit)

Hello all! Something for Halloween time…

This film seems to really want to be a personal psychological horror film, but it has a number of moments/elements that steer it off course. One is a schizophrenic but too-common-in-modern-times desire to be part satire/comedy while primarily a horror film. Its other failing is falling into using lame modern “horror” (movie) gimmicks and tropes, ala cheap (ineffective) jump scares, pilfering J-horror climax moment techniques and so forth, all pushing the film’s non-satire moments into dumb/lame monster flick territory. It’s a shame because the core of this film was strong enough to stand on its own without having to desperately grasp for such balsa wood crutches.

My edit strips away the mess to lock the film on a steady track that feels like it was what the director really wanted to do in her heart of hearts, a strengthening via trim-down to make it more unsettling and gets-under-your-skin freaky (part thanks to some great creature effects) for the viewer who wants their horror to be horrific and uneasy instead of repeatedly trying to pry out clumsy chuckles. (I also made the characters less off-putting/more easy on our senses, plus removed some repetition and spoon-feeding.)

Be warned though that the original ending of this movie is of the “just cuts off” style, leaving me nothing for improving the ending, to my deep-ish chagrin. :sad face:

My personal rating of my fixed version is 7/10, a lot I like but a few things I couldn’t do anything about that I wish were better(/fixable)…which still makes this a lot better than so many horror flicks made these days, IMO. At least it’s not a remake/sequel/prequel/sidequel/reboot, not shot on iPhones, etc.

64 minutes, English subbed (Finnish language), rated-R-ish for reasons related to horror (gore, grotesque-ness). PM me of course to see it.

Thanks for looking/reading!

-WXM