Director Tilman Singer ( Luz ) has graduated from micro-budget arthouse to a gloriously weird, neon-soaked mainstream horror entry. And trust me: this one is going to split the room right down the middle. Gretchen (a phenomenal Hunter Schafer) is a sullen American teenager forced to move to the German Alps to live with her father, his new wife, and her mute half-sister. They take up residence at a remote, almost comically pristine resort hotel.

If you need a Wikipedia plot summary that explains the monster’s biology, lifecycle, and taxonomical order, you will be frustrated. The rules of the world are loose. The third act gets very abstract and leans heavily into body horror that feels almost like a music video.

Go see this in a theater. Turn your phone off. Let the cuckoo sing.