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NIGHTBORN
2026Shudder · 92 MIN · 2026-07-31
NIGHTBORN
2026
ROT SCORE
67
SYNOPSIS
New parents Saga and Jon are settling into life with their newborn out in a remote Finnish forest when Saga becomes convinced something's deeply wrong with the baby -- a suspicion rooted straight in old Nordic folklore. Jon's not buying it, so she's chasing the truth alone.
SUBGENRES
Folk HorrorPsychologicalSupernatural
Score Breakdown
MAINSTREAM SOURCES
RT Critic + RT Audience are averaged together and count as 50% of this bucket. All other sources share the remaining 50% equally.
| SOURCE | RAW SCORE | NORMALIZED / 100 |
|---|---|---|
| RT Critic | 74% | 74.0 |
| RT Audience | N/A | — |
| Letterboxd | N/A | — |
| IMDb | 5.9 / 10 | 59.0 |
| Metacritic Critic | N/A | — |
| Metacritic User | N/A | — |
| Slash Film | N/A | — |
| IGN | N/A | — |
| The Film Stage | N/A | — |
| Collider | N/A | — |
| RT AVG (50% of bucket) | 74.0 | |
| MAINSTREAM AVG | 66.5 | |
FORMULA WEIGHTS
| SOURCE | NORMALIZED | BASE WT | ACTUAL WT | CONTRIB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satan's Boardroom | — | 10% | — | — |
| Genre Sites | — | 50% | — | — |
| Mainstream Sites | 66.5 | 40% | 100.0%* | 66.5 |
| ROT SCORE | 100.0% | 67 | ||
* Satan's Boardroom, Genre Sites were unavailable. Weight redistributed proportionally across available sources.