The Legend of Ochi, which debuted at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, moves at a slow pace from start to finish, but it builds up to a tense and satisfying ending.

The Legend of Ochi budget was $10 million, with a $1 million creature budget, and after years of development — Baby Ochi prototype development began in 2018 — the results are spectacular.

Before landing on the small ape of “The Legend of Ochi,” Saxon first considered a giant oaf and then something closer to the slumbering beast of Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro ...

The baby ochi goes on a supermarket adventure with Helena Zengel in "The Legend of Ochi." A24 "The Legend of Ochi," out April 25, stars Helena Zengel alongside Finn Wolfhard, best known from his ...

Produced by A24, “The Legend of Ochi,” brings the bountiful imagination and technical innovation of writer-director Isaiah Saxon into a larger canvas. Saxon, perhaps best known for directing ...

The Legend of Ochi follows teenager Yuri (Helena Zengel) who lives in the remote village of Carpathia with her father Maxim (Willem Dafoe) and brother Petro (Finn Wolfhard).

The spirits of Jim Henson and Steven Spielberg are thriving in The Legend of Ochi, a children’s fantasy that also adds a little Star Wars to its out-of-this-world mix.. A fable about ...

The Legend of Ochi will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. in theaters nationwide on Friday, April 25. (The movie opened in select U.S. theaters last week, ...

“The Legend of Ochi” — 3.5 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: PG (for violent content, a bloody image, smoking, thematic elements and some language) Running time: 1:35.

The Legend of Ochi budget was $10 million, with a $1 million creature budget, and after years of development — Baby Ochi prototype development began in 2018 — the results are spectacular.