“Cuckoo” (2024) Review

Sometimes, the right atmosphere can work wonders for a horror idea that can’t quite take flight. That is very much the case with Cuckoo, a film that succeeds at being more interesting than its creature-feature angle of human-bird hybrids. There’s a mystery present for dissecting this weirdness, and the creepiness of that investigation makes the picture more compelling than the big reveal of the bird people or the tragic backstories behind it all.

Discovering all this odd terror is the young ...