"TOGETHER" - A SUPERNATURAL BODY HORROR MOVIE REVIEW

 

Together is a 2025 supernatural body horror film written and directed by Michael Shanks, in his directorial debut. The film stars real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple who move to the countryside and find themselves encountering a mysterious force that horrifically causes changes in their bodies.

Together premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2025 and was released in the United States by Neon on July 30, 2025, and in Australia by Kismet Movies on July 31. It received positive reviews from critics.

Millie Wilson gets a job teaching elementary school English and moves to the countryside with her longtime boyfriend, aspiring musician Tim, who has been emotionally distant since the recent passing of his parents. Shortly before the move, Millie proposes to Tim at a going away party held by their friends but he hesitates to respond, embarrassing her.

While hiking near their new home, they fall into a cave during a rainstorm and decide to camp inside for the night. Tim drinks from a pool in the cave, then recalls traumatic details of the night he found his mother in bed with his father's decaying corpse. Upon waking up the next morning, Tim and Millie find their legs partially stuck together but dismiss the incident after separating. Tim begins to experience episodes where he is inexplicably physically drawn to Millie, confusing and frustrating them both. Millie's coworker Jamie shows up at their home to welcome them to the neighborhood, and she invites him in for dinner. The couple recounts their experience at the cave, which Jamie explains was a New Age church before it caved in.

Millie drops Tim off at the train station for a gig, but Tim experiences another episode and drags himself to Millie's workplace. An outraged Millie confronts him in a bathroom stall, whereupon they have sex, after which their genitals become stuck together. After they painfully force themselves to separate, Jamie spots them. Millie later visits Jamie's house to apologize. In the ensuing conversation, she begins to open up about some of the problems she and Tim have been facing in their relationship. Jamie relates Aristophanes' theory of the nature and origin of eros and encourages her not to let go of her "other half", then reminisces on his relationship with his seemingly deceased husband. Millie abruptly leaves after spotting a disoriented Tim outside.

Tim visits a doctor, who dismisses his symptoms as panic attacks and prescribes him muscle relaxant pills before mentioning that a local couple, Simon and Keri, recently went missing. Using exif data from their social media photos, Tim discovers that they visited the same cave he and Millie fell into after noticing the same symbols surrounding the cave, and unsuccessfully tries to convince Millie that the two of them may suffer whatever fate Simon and Keri did. That night, both Tim and Millie are supernaturally drawn together, causing their bodies to contort in unnatural ways until their arms become fused. They manage to prevent further fusion after consuming Tim's pills in a panic before passing out. Tim awakens tied to a chair, where Millie saws through their fused limb. Millie decides to drive them to the hospital, but realizes she has left her keys at Jamie's house. Tim promises to wait for her while she retrieves them, but secretly returns to the cave and finds Simon and Keri, partially fused together as a grotesque humanoid.

Millie enters Jamie's house and finds a TV playing the wedding tape of two men she does not recognize, then a video depicting a ritual in which the men fuse together. Jamie, revealed to be the result of said fusion, promises that they are happier after "becoming whole" and implores Millie to complete the fusion process with Tim. When she resists, he cuts her arm the same way his constituents had their arms cut in the tape before she escapes.

Millie reunites with Tim in their driveway. He prepares to take his own life by slitting his throat to save Millie, despite her pleading with him not to. Her wound from Jamie nearly causes her to fatally bleed out, but Tim saves her by fusing his arm to her wound. Accepting their fate, the two affirm their mutual love and slow dance to "2 Become 1", embracing as they fuse into a singular being.

That weekend, Millie's parents arrive for a visit. They knock on the door—now adorned with the symbol from the cave—and are greeted by a seemingly normal, androgynous person.