Together Forever And Never To Part – Together (2025) Review

Together Forever And Never To Part – Together (2025) Review By David Court

Together

Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) 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.

In an age of pompous “elevated” horror, it’s refreshing to see a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Together is playful, but vicious when it needs to tighten the screws. Like real relationships, it can be both scary and fun. There’s an insanely clever musical reference towards the end of the movie, and one could almost suspect that the film was only made to drive it towards one single hilarious punchline.

The subgenre of body horror has long been used to channel some of our darkest and most primal fears. From the many Body Snatchers remakes (best left abandoned after Abel Ferrara’s ambitious 1993 attempt) and The Thing’s threat to individuality and identity, to The Fly’s meditation on corruption, disease, and decay, the genre thrives on pushing boundaries. Yuzna’s sticky 1989 KY-lube-fest Society warned us that the rich are literally another species feeding on us, while the overly mauve Colour Out of Space showed the horrifying literal corruption of the family unit.

Now, body horror turns its elongated eyestalks and congealed pseudopods toward the murky waters of human relationships with Together, written and directed by Michael Shanks and starring real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco.

I’m an absolute sucker (presumably one affixed to an undulous tentacle) for body horror—it’s easily one of my favourite subgenres. Admittedly, the quality can vary wildly, but even at its schlockiest, I find it thoroughly entertaining. I’d watched the trailers for this latest Neon film with avid interest, being one of the rare modern trailers that actually piqued interest without spoiling the whole movie, so I went in with equal parts anticipation and trepidation.

(Incidentally, this was part of the Scream: Unseen series, where the film title is kept secret and revealed only by three cryptic clues online. The screening’s timing meant it would inevitably be either Weapons or Together—I was excited for both.)

Brie and Franco play Millie and Tim—she’s a determined elementary school teacher, he’s an aspiring but aimless musician. After an embarrassing wedding proposal at their going-away party, the couple moves to the countryside to further Millie’s career. Even in our brief fly-on-the-wall glimpses of their life, they seem mismatched: Millie is ambitious and driven, while Tim is content to drift in her wake, dedicated to navigating the path of least resistance. There’s a clear imbalance in the relationship, with an unhealthy dependency from Tim – where proper relationships should be a symbiosis, here it feels one-sided and parasitical. 

It’s on an ill-prepared local hike in their new neighbourhood that they stumble upon something that will change their relationship – and each of them – forever.

The opening scene—reminiscent of The Thing’s dog pen sequence—sees two unlucky pooches fall victim to something strange happening beneath the town. It also serves as an early warning: never drink from mysterious pools of cave water.

Once they leave the city (and the films single crowded scene), Brie and Franco completely carry the film. Luckily, their performances hold it together, making us care about the zigzags of their strained relationship. Neither comes off as more sympathetic; they’re both human, flawed, and believable.

The fact that Brie and Franco are married in real life works heavily in the film’s favour. It makes their intimacy wholly convincing, whether they’re sparring metaphorically—or, as the trailer hints with that electric carving knife scene, literally.

In an age of pompous “elevated” horror, it’s refreshing to see a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Together is playful, but vicious when it needs to tighten the screws. Like real relationships, it can be both scary and fun. There’s an insanely clever musical reference towards the end of the movie, and one could almost suspect that the film was only made to drive it towards one single hilarious punchline.

If there’s a flaw, it’s that the CGI effects can’t match the practical ones, and the ending feels a little too on-the-nose. Still, it’s another strong entry in this year’s already impressive horror lineup. Any film that can make an entire audience wince and sharply inhale is worth recommending.

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