Together (2025)

Together was one of those movies where the trailer gives you an idea of what you're getting, but doesn't really prepare you for how the whole thing comes together. I expected a strange body-horror movie, and that's definitely part of it. What surprised me was how much the relationship between the two leads mattered to the story. The movie is creepy and at times pretty uncomfortable, yet there is a surprisingly emotional side to it that makes all the weirdness work.

Dave Franco and Alison Brie are excellent together. They have the chemistry you'd expect from two people who are married in real life, but that isn't all they bring to the roles. The characters have genuine tension between them. They're dealing with frustrations and insecurities that feel believable, and the horror starts exploiting those cracks. It gives the film something to build around instead of just throwing disturbing images at the screen.

I liked the pacing, too. Once the odd things start happening, there is this constant feeling that something worse is just around the corner. The movie doesn't need to fill every minute with a jump scare. It keeps you watching and wondering how far it's going to take the premise. The effects work is convincing enough to make some scenes hard to look at, which is exactly what you want from good body horror. I winced more than once.

The other thing I appreciated was that the film wasn't simply bleak for the sake of being bleak. It's a bizarre story, and I don't want to explain where it goes because discovering that is part of the experience. Still, there is something almost sweet buried underneath all the uncomfortable stuff. I wasn't expecting that combination to land as well as it did.

I enjoyed Together a lot. It's well acted, nicely constructed, and different enough to stand out without feeling like it's being weird just for attention. I don't know that I'd return to it all the time, but it's absolutely the kind of horror movie I'd recommend seeing with a crowd.

I had an escape plan for Together. Based on the trailer, I was pretty sure this was going to be one of those body-horror movies that I couldn't sit through. I even made sure I had the car key in my purse in case I decided to leave the theater and find something else to do. So nobody was more surprised than I was when I ended up enjoying it.

Don't get me wrong, there are some gross moments. There were times when I was tense and waiting for something awful to happen, and I definitely didn't spend the whole movie feeling relaxed. The body-horror parts were every bit as strange as I'd expected. What I didn't expect was to care about the couple at the center of everything. Their relationship made the movie more interesting than a string of disgusting scenes would have been.

Dave Franco and Alison Brie are really good together. They feel like an actual couple, including when they're arguing. I liked that they weren't written as two people who are constantly being sweet to each other. You can see that they love each other and that some things aren't working between them. That made the weird things happening to them feel more personal, and I was interested in seeing how they would deal with it.

I also liked that this wasn't just a scary movie. It's creepy, and there are plenty of moments when you're wondering what is coming next, but there's also an unexpectedly sweet side to the story. I know that sounds strange when you're talking about a movie with this much body horror. It surprised me, too. Somehow those two things fit together.

I walked out of the theater hearing other people talking about how much they'd liked it, and I understood why. This was not a movie I thought I would enjoy, and it definitely isn't one I would want to watch every week. Still, I'm glad I stayed in my seat. Sometimes the horror movie that sounds least like my kind of thing ends up being one of the better surprises.