Kalin Morrow is the blood-curdling breakout star of 'Cuckoo' - Patrick Ryan, USA Today 9 August 2024 https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/08/09/cuckoo-movie-spoilers-hooded-woman/74676730007/
“In the stylish new thriller “Cuckoo,” “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer faces off with 2024’s scariest horror creation: a shrieking, Hitchcockian glamazon known as the Hooded Woman (Kalin Morrow). With glowing red eyes and a severe blonde updo, the mysterious monster stalks the rebellious teen Gretchen (Schafer) around an idyllic resort in the German Alps, where hotel owner Herr König (Dan Stevens) is running bizarro genetic experiments on women.”
“There’s something ghostly about her that I cannot put into words, but it's this haunting energy that really gets to me.” - Tilman Singer, writer/director CUCKOO , from interview with Patrick Ryan, USA Today 9 August 2024 https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/08/09/cuckoo-movie-spoilers-hooded-woman/74676730007/
While Luis obsesses over Alma, who is starting to experience seizures, Gretchen is terrorized by a hooded woman in a raincoat who seems to have some kind of supernatural influence and screeches like the aliens in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” (Hooded Woman, played by Kalin Morrow, is among the scarier characters in any movie this year.) - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun Times, 7 August 2024 https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/08/07/cuckoo-review-hunter-schafer-movie-dan-stevens
“Gretchen’s pursuer, credited as The Hooded Woman (Kalin Morrow), strikes fear whether dashing between background trees or transporting into a close-up as composer Simon Waskow spikes the score. There’s an icky and unsettling experimentation angle that parallels societal horrors where women are stripped of their bodily autonomy, as well as visual frights where The Hooded Woman becomes a feral bloodhound and chases targets for frantic thrills. Psychological and physical horrors meld into a unified, if maybe sometimes senseless, attack on our senses, as the storytelling advances.” - https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/cuckoo-review-sxsw-2024 Matt Donato 17 March 2024
Other memorable performances come from Jan Bluthardt (Luz), Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (The Vault), and Kalin Morrow…When it comes to the sinister presence threatening Gretchen’s life, audiences are treated to striking creature design. - Molly Henery The Blogging Banshee 31 July 2024 https://thebloggingbanshee.com/2024/07/31/fantasia-2024-review-cuckoo/#:~:text=Cuckoo%20weaves%20a%20unique%20mythos,audiences%20won't%20soon%20forget.
“Singer introduces the “monster,” a hooded woman (Kalin Morrow), early on. Gretchen first encounters her in a public bathroom where she is violently trying to open the stall door. This nerve-jangling moment sets the tone for the film, which gets increasingly more intense as the story unfolds. Why the monster is after Gretchen provides the film with its central mystery.” “As the hooded woman continues to make appearances in the film, frightening Gretchen, the question arises — is she real, or a figment of Gretchen’s imagination?” - Gary M. Kramer Philadelphia Gay News 5 August 2024 https://epgn.com/2024/08/05/cuckoo-review/