As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.
Direction
Nyholm's shadow puppet sequences are genuinely haunting folk art.
Practical Effects
The grotesque costumes feel like a fever dream you had as a child.
Score
That music box melody will live in your brain rent-free forever.
Director
Johannes Nyholm
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references a Swedish children's song about a cock crowing at dawn, traditionally sung to comfort kids—here weaponized into something deeply sinister.
Nyholm based the film on his own stage play and a real camping trip from hell, explaining why the forest feels so authentically cursed.
DK
SE
