Danny and Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back is a bleak and harrowing exploration of grief, trauma, and the terrifying consequences of trying to undo loss. If their 2022 debut Talk to Me carved out a space for the twins as new masters of supernatural horror, their follow-up shifts gears into something heavier, more suffocating, and far less forgiving. This time, the horror does not come from playful party tricks with the dead, but from the crushing weight of sorrow and the violent, desperate ways it manifests. The film opens with a gut punch: Andy, played with raw vulnerability by Billy Barratt, comes home to find his father dead in the shower. Suddenly, Andy and his blind sister Piper (Sora Wong) are orphaned, forced to navigate a system that threatens to separate them. They are taken in by Laura, a former social worker whose own child drowned years earlier. Laura, embodied with unnerving intensity by Sally Hawkins, initially appears compassionate, even maternal, but there’s something...