Overview
- Shudder announced the acquisition on Thursday, June 25, 2026, for North American, Australian and New Zealand distribution in a deal negotiated with international sales agent Goodfellas.
- The film will have its North American premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22 and will debut on Shudder on July 31.
- Nightborn is Hanna Bergholm’s first English-language feature and her follow-up to 2022’s Hatching, produced by Daniel Kuitunen for Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta Oy.
- The cast is led by Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint and the story follows a new mother in a remote Finnish house who becomes convinced there is something wrong with her newborn, a premise reviewers have described as visceral and thought-provoking.
- Shudder plans to use the festival-first, platform-second window to drive early critical attention and audience interest for its genre slate while Goodfellas oversees international sales.