Rupert Grint, Seidi Haarla, and Hanna Bergholm on Turning the Horrors of New Parenthood into Nightborn: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms When horror works best, it taps into fears that already exist, and Nightborn finds its monster in one of the most emotionally overwhelming experiences imaginable: becoming a parent. Speaking with Kyle Meredith, director Hanna Bergholm and stars Rupert Grint and Seidi Haarla unpack the Shudder thriller’s unsettling mix of body horror, folklore, and family drama, revealing how the film uses the anxieties of childbirth and the first year of raising a baby to tell a deeply human story. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. The emotional weight of the story rests largely on Haarla and Grint, whose deteriorating relationship becomes just as frightening as the mysterious child at its center. Haarla describes motherhood as “the most important role in my life,” saying the film gave her space to explore emotions that parents often suppress, while Grint found unexpected parallels with his own life after discovering he was expecting his second child during filming. “It all felt kind of very meta,” he laughs, admitting that Nightborn tapped into the strange reality that newborns can already seem alien enough witho...