There’s something amiss at Herr König’s (Dan Stevens) idyllic resort in the German Alps in the surreal new thriller Cuckoo. Dazed female guests suddenly fall to bouts of vomiting. Strange chirping noises appear to trap people in time loops. And there’s the case of the creepy hooded blonde woman who appears at night, chasing and attacking surly teenager Gretchen (Hunter Schafer). But, oddly, Gretchen, who is reluctantly accompanying her father and his new family to the resort after her mother passed away, might be the only one who notices something is off.

“Gretchen is kind of like the baseline how most humans would react to a lot of the circumstances,” Schafer tells Inverse.

There’s a special kitchen at the bottom of the sea. Scientists are now closer to reconstructing how it whipped up early life, thanks to a massive 1.2-kilometer core that a ship drilled out from a Mount-Rainier-sized underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean.

Johan Lissenberg, igneous petrologist at Cardiff University, and his colleagues are fascinated with the extreme temperatures of melted rock. Earth churns out molten rock, and seawater cools it down. It is intrinsic to the planet itself, and likely created life. The undersea mountain, called the Atlantis Massif, is home to a hot spring environment known as the Lost City hydrothermal field. Eons ago, a place like this may have been the cradle of unique microbes and the creatures that consumed them.

In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, Lissenberg and a team of scientists analyzed the mantle rock the JOIDES Resolution research ship drilled out of Atlantis Massif last year. The trip was led by the International Ocean Discovery Program.