Mother Goose meets slasher in this Romanian folktale that bites back.
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
Acting
Morgenstern's feral maternal transformation — no heroism, just survival.
Direction
Canache stretches 83 minutes into pure suffocating tension.
Production
Cramped single-location nightmare, every creak matters.
Director
Victor Canache
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Direct adaptation of Ion Creangă's 1875 Romanian folktale — the national equivalent of Grimm, rarely exported this faithfully.
Morgenstern, famous for playing Mary in The Passion of the Christ, inverts sacred motherhood into something feral and desperate.
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