Lisa Johnson Mandell’s Together review reveals that this real life couple knows how to take a terrifying tale to the limits and beyond.

Well. I didn’t see that coming.

Together starts out with a co-dependent, self awareness-free couple making really bad choices about their lives together. Real life mates Dave Franco and Alison Brie play fictional pair Tim and Millie. They’re not married, but have been together for so many years they don’t remember what it’s like to be apart, and aren’t willing to risk it—even if it means moving out of the city to a cabin in the woods (where else would it be?) in a small town where Millie has a job teaching. Tim, a never-was rock musician, has, well, nothing…but Millie.

Never put much confidence in a couple that can’t come up with more original terms of endearment than “Babe,” and call each other that incessantly. The big question is, are they together because they love each other, or just because they’re comfortable with each other. Only time and an ill-fated hike into the woods where they tumble into a cultish mind, body and soul melding world, will tell.

Together review — viscerally creepy

Together is not a classic, jump scare, blood and guts movie, but more of a gross, viscerally creepy, ‘I can’t believe they went there’ film. The Substance paved the way for this type of body horror and director Michael Shanks takes up the baton and runs with it.

Neither one of the main characters is particularly appealing, and that’s by clever design. You continuously root for one of them to break free of their messy, co-dependent chains, but they both keep descending to new lows. The end is terrifyingly horrific, but in a way, you feel they got what they deserved.

This is an original story that made me feel both satisfied and squeamish. Satisfied in that my days of making nearly fatal relationship mistakes are well behind me, and squeamish in that some of those images and situations truly curdled my stomach—which indicated Together did its job and did it well.

Rated R

1 Hour 42 Minutes

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Lisa Johnson Mandell’s Together review reveals that this real life couple knows how to take a terrifying tale to the limits and beyond.