It Hatched

[Plays Oct. 21 as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] When a nightmare-plagued, Iceland-born husband (Gunnar Kristinsson), who suffers from a low sperm count, moves with his child therapist wife (Vivian Ólafsdóttir) to Iceland from Nashville, Tenn., to open a guesthouse on a remote fjord and she suddenly gives birth to a boy via a human-size egg in Elvar Gunnarsson's wacky, creative, strange, creepy, unpredictable, 96-minute thriller dominated by stunning landscapes and cinematography, he begins freaking out and getting more desperate as he finds himself losing touch with reality after a demonic, supernatural entity living in the bowels of their basement terrorizes him and he cannot convince his oblivious wife that the infant she is raising is not normal.
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