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Hunter Schafer makes for one hell of a final girl. With two black eyes and an arm braced in a cast, her feet laced up in combat boots and a butterfly knife tucked under her mattress, the Euphoria star picks up and makes off with Tilman Singer’s horror Cuckoo. She plays Gretchen – a morose teen relocated from America to a German alpine resort – as far more than purely determined and invulnerable. When she encounters monstrous, ravenous women who emerge from the woods outside the resort, she greets them with the wearied shrug of a 17-year-old kid who’s already taken a fair few knocks in life.
