Fantasia ’26 Movie Review: “NIGHTBORN” proves mother knows best—it’s just natural
Debuting on Shudder today, it’s ambitious, empathetic and downright unsettling in its depictions of motherhood and isolation.
Debuting on Shudder today, it’s ambitious, empathetic and downright unsettling in its depictions of motherhood and isolation.
The film teeters on the edge of satire without ever fully embracing its potential to create that critical commentary on its well-established tropes.
The single greatest film about the art of special makeup ever made.
Playing some of the grotesqueries for intentional humor allows the director to go increasingly over the top without losing hold of the audience.
Reasonably engaging for the first hour and change, before falling apart into one of the most contrived, absurd—and derivative—final acts in recent memory.