After the brutal and mysterious murder of her uncle, Māori activist and photographer Emma returns from New York City to her ancestral home in Aotearoa, New Zealand, to claim an inheritance she never expected: a contested, decaying power station steeped in family conflict and buried history. But home is anything but safe.

As Emma settles into the fractured estate, she begins to experience unsettling visions of “Broken Beak,” a haunting figure from a childhood folk tale whose origins are steeped in colonial violence and cultural erasure. What first feels like a hallucination quickly shifts into something far more real—especially as members of her own family begin to die in increasingly violent and inexplicable ways. Is Emma losing her grip on reality, or awakening to an ancient reckoning that has finally come due?

Blending body-horror transformation with mythic dread, BROKEN BEAK marks a striking new entry in the transformation horror genre. Emma’s physical and psychological unraveling evokes the visceral metamorphosis of David Cronenberg’s THE FLY, while moments of haunting animation-crafted echo the eerie, storybook terror of THE BABADOOK, reframing folklore as a living, predatory force.

In BROKEN BEAK, myth doesn’t just haunt the past. It evolves. It feeds. And it remembers.