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Together

A slick, body-horror relationship nightmare that plays like a nasty breakup movie with a gruesome supernatural twist. It’s more effective as a concept-driven, darkly funny allegory about codependency and identity than as pure terror, but the mix of romance, cringe humor, and flesh-crawling imagery makes it an easy… Read more

39% (867,527)

Together

Where to watch: Hulu

Movie · Horror · Romance · R

2025 · 1h 42m · ★ 39% (867.5K)

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Director: Michael Shanks

Starring: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman

Overview

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.

Director

Michael Shanks

Production

Picturestart, Tango Entertainment, 30WEST, Princess Pictures, 1.21 Entertainment, Project Foxtrot

Cast

Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Mia Morrissey, Karl Richmond, Jack Kenny, Francesca Waters, Aljin Abella, Sarah Lang, Rob Brown, Ellora Iris, Charlie Lees, MJ Dorning, Tom Considine, Melanie Beddie, Flynn Wandin, Nancy Finn, Mark Robinson, Michael Shanks, Sunny S. Walia

Where to watch

Hulu

Curator Review

Verdict

A slick, body-horror relationship nightmare that plays like a nasty breakup movie with a gruesome supernatural twist. It’s more effective as a concept-driven, darkly funny allegory about codependency and identity than as pure terror, but the mix of romance, cringe humor, and flesh-crawling imagery makes it an easy recommendation for genre fans.

Best for

  • Viewers who like relationship dramas filtered through horror
  • Fans of body horror with a satirical or absurd streak
  • People who enjoy messy, codependent couple dynamics
  • Audiences looking for a crowd-pleasing festival-style genre movie

Skip if

  • You want straightforward scares without relationship melodrama
  • You dislike body horror or bodily transformation imagery
  • You prefer subtle, slow-burn psychological horror over high-concept grotesquerie
  • You’re not in the mood for dark comedy mixed with romance

Overview

Together takes a very familiar relationship crisis and pushes it into grotesque, literal territory. The result is a horror movie that understands how intimacy can feel suffocating, funny, and terrifying all at once. Its strongest idea is simple: when a couple is already fraying, the supernatural doesn’t need to invent the damage, only amplify it.

Worth noting

The film leans into body horror with a knowingly outrageous streak, and that gives it a playful edge even when the imagery gets nasty. Dave Franco and Alison Brie make the central dynamic feel lived-in enough that the escalating weirdness has something human to cling to. It’s less interested in deep emotional realism than in turning co-dependence into a physical nightmare.

Bottom line

As a genre piece, it lands best when it trusts its premise and its tonal balance between cringe comedy and flesh-crawling discomfort. It may not satisfy viewers looking for a purely frightening or especially profound horror film, but it’s sharp, memorable, and built for audiences who like their romance poisoned by mutation and dread.

Top Letterboxd reviews

Blue Ghosts (3★) · 33059 likes

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becoming nonbinary speedrun

Framesofnick (3.5★) · 20956 likes

This happened to me and my girlfriend last year but we didn’t wanna say anything

Hayden (4.5★) · 14945 likes

Dave Franco wouldn’t be able to pull out of me either ngl

mia (4★) · 14066 likes

snorting each other's diazepam and crawling into each other’s skin?? my dream date. cute. 🙄

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Themes

codependency, relationship breakdown, identity and intimacy, body horror, marriage or partnership, isolation, gender and selfhood, toxic attachment

Topics

body horror, romantic horror, dark comedy, codependency, relationship breakdown, psychological dread, satirical horror, queer-coded subtext, festival genre film, 2020s

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