Together – Review

Relationships are hard, but likely a bit tougher when the subject of a horror movie. A search in the woods for two missing hikers reveals an underground passage with some weird debris, including an odd bell, church pews and a horrific looking pit with fluid of some sort. Two thirsty search dogs take a drink before returning to their owner. Later that night, something very wrong is happening to the dogs.

Millie (Brie) and Tim (Franco) are at their going away party, as they plan to move to a remote town in the country for Millie’s work as a teacher. They’ve been together for about a decade, however what used to be nothing but highs have hit choppy waters as Tim has been in a major funk musically, and Millie is feeling lonely and a bit unwanted. She plans on changing that by proposing in front of their friends, so they can start their next chapter in a great spot.

Tim does not handle the party or the moment very well, but he is somewhat interested in a possible guitar gig with another label band. It would require him to travel back a lot though… So, for now he will try to make it work. Millie is doing all she can to make the relationship hang on, so they try their best after the move to get used to the new setting. They settle into their home. They try to reconnect with each other; however ultra creepy dreams keep Tim unable to calm his mind.

Then they talk a walk in the woods. Promptly after getting lost, they stumble into a familiar area where the searchers were before, and Tim slips into a hole. The same hole the dogs were in, and the same hole with the pit of gross fluids. Well, in go Tim and Millie as they do their best to stay out, but rainy conditions pull them down.

Here begins the real story of the movie. As the couple deals with the cave they are stuck in, they learn more about each other than they ever expected. This is made 1,000 times worse as unsurprisingly the pit with gross alien looking water does NOT refresh the pair as they want. Enter sticky INSANITY.

Real life married pair Dave Franco and Alison Brie must have had some fun grossing each other out and bonding through the trauma of this story. This shit is fucking creepy at times, and then also nutty bonkers crazy. One must be able to handle so-called “body horror” which features intense looks at gross things happening to all sorts of limbs, skin and blood.

The story is simple but effective and the movie is really well done; despite the gross-outs it drops. It even battles with real life relationship issues, stress, behavior, emotions and needs. The script does a good job balancing reality and relationship challenges with its maniacal story, and the final pieces wind up getting under your skin.

Honey, you don’t look so good.

This horror is pretty unique in its overall presentation, but the ones below contain some similar elements or psychological happenings.