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The baby blues turns into a gory fight for survival in Hanna Bergholm’s worthy follow-up to her well-received 2022 debut, HATCHING. Like that movie, which combined horror and fantasy tropes with f***ed-up family dynamics, NIGHTBORN focuses on a couple in the aftermath of their child’s birth – an already anxiety-ridden event that’s compounded many times over by the fact that their baby boy is some kind of bloodsucking abomination of nature. Or is he? Part of what makes NIGHTBORN both stomach-churning and thought-provoking is how all the crazy stuff happening is just a slightly – okay, substantially – exaggerated version of the reality so many first-time parents face. (Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter)