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TOGETHER (2025): Flesh, Love, and Everything In Between


Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is grotesque.


If your relationship hasn’t turned you into a metaphysical meat puppet, can you even call it love?

Enter TOGETHER, the upcoming body-horror fever dream from director Michael Shanks, making his feature debut with a film that’s equal parts The Fly, Possession, and a codependent spiral you can’t look away from. Real-life power couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie star as lovers who escape the noise of city life, only to be consumed by something far worse than traffic and brunch lines: each other.

THE PLOT (AND THE ROT)

Millie and Tim move to the countryside in search of clarity. What they find is something ancient, unseen, and impossible to ignore, a supernatural force that fuses not just their lives, but their literal bodies, minds, and wills. It starts with whispers and weird dreams. It ends with... well, you’ll see.

There’s love. There’s loss. There’s... bodily fluids. This is the kind of horror that gets under your skin—then makes you question whose skin it really is.

SUNDANCE SHOCKWAVES

Premiering in the Midnight section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, TOGETHER didn’t just raise eyebrows, it made people squirm. NEON snagged distribution rights in a $17 million feeding frenzy, making it one of the first major sales of the festival season.

Early reactions? 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and whispers of “modern cult classic” status.


CAST & CREW

  • Dave Franco (also producer)

  • Alison Brie (also producer)

  • Damon Herriman (Justified, House of Wax)

  • Directed/Written by: Michael Shanks

  • Produced by: Picturestart, Princess Pictures, Tango Entertainment, 30West, and more


The cast is tight. The tension is tighter. And the direction? Let’s just say Shanks brings the pain—and the poetry.


RATED R FOR:

  • Intense body horror

  • Graphic sexuality

  • Disturbing imagery

  • And a few scenes that’ll probably kill the vibe on date night


In other words: It’s exactly what we needed.


THE CONTROVERSY

No good horror film comes without a little off-screen bloodshed. TOGETHER is currently facing a copyright lawsuit from a filmmaker who claims the story is a little too close to their 2023 indie project. But Shanks, Franco, and Brie aren’t having it, insisting the script is original, personal, and in no way a knockoff.


Hollywood drama? Check. Legal mudslinging? Check. Free press? Double check.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

Because this one’s got the bones of something real.

We don’t get many horror films that go this hard into intimacy, let alone ones that treat emotional entanglement like a monster movie. TOGETHER doesn’t just show you the horror, it invites you into it. It asks what happens when two people merge beyond recognition.

And it answers with flesh.


Also, Franco and Brie are freakin’ fantastic. The chemistry’s real. The descent is realer.

FINAL WARNING

This isn’t jump-scare popcorn horror. This is arthouse horror with claws. The kind of film that’ll follow you home, whisper in your ear at night, and make you reevaluate every hug you've ever given.

TOGETHER hits theaters July 30 via NEON.




 
 
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