Nightborn

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Nightborn

2026

1h 32m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

Drama

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A dark fantasy happening over the course of one year. NIGHTBORN is a harrowing dive into a nightmare of motherhood and the painful side of motherly love.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

13h

B-

Nightborn is ultimately less interested in framing motherhood as a horror movie than it is in exploring why people refuse to see it that way. Which isn’t to suggest that it’s not interested in framing motherhood as a horror movie.

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Peyton Robinson

RogerEbert.com

17h

2.5/4

So while built on an excellent screenplay and grounded center, [it] falls victim to fatiguing its elements through overzealous, flustered execution.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Feb 19

2/5

Some amusing moments, but a disappointment after the excellent Hatching.

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Deirdre Crimmins

Rue Morgue Magazine

11h

The sheer physicality of Haarla’s expression of Saga is a wonder. Bergholm’s direction and cinematic choices are also disarmingly deliberate.

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Chuck Bowen

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

15h

Bergholm blends these sources confidently: "Nightborn" has a strange fairy-tale pull.

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Matthew Jackson

Bloody Disgusting

16h

4/5

It’s a chilling artistic breakthrough, and an announcement that Hanna Bergholm is not just here to stay, but getting better all the time.

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J D

@JayDog123 9h

Evil baby cries through 90 % movie which gets irritating very quickly. Rubert Grint revisits replaying his Sevant character. Ending predictable. Whole movie gave me a headache.

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B P

@Bradster69 12h

Hanna Bergholm’s Haunting Tale of Monstrous Motherhood

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Timothy P

@timop1919 22h

First of all, this movie wa darkly hysterical. I found myself laughing multiple times during the scary parts because what it was saying about motherhood was very true. No one listened to the mother and kept acting like she was crazy but they all paid the price. But I liked the morbidly happy ending. 😊

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Saga

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Jon

Pamela Tola

Taru

Pirkko Saisio

Saga's Mother

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Jon’s Mother

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A dark fantasy happening over the course of one year. NIGHTBORN is a harrowing dive into a nightmare of motherhood and the painful side of motherly love.

Director: Hanna Bergholm
Producer: Daniel Kuitunen, Noémie Devide
Screenwriter: Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Drama
Original Language: Finnish
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 31, 2026
Runtime: 1h 32m