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Blu-ray Review: Together (2025) – Love, Horror, and the Terror of Becoming One

If Together proves anything, it’s that the scariest thing about relationships isn’t breaking up — it’s merging so completely that you forget who you are. Director Michael Shanks takes this simple emotional idea and stretches it into something grotesque, romantic, and disturbingly funny. Starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco, a real-life couple, the film turns domestic tension into body horror, letting metaphor and flesh literally fuse together. The movie begins in familiar territory: Tim (Franco), an aspiring musician stuck in creative limbo, and Millie (Brie), a driven teacher, move from the city to a quiet rural community. The change is meant to help them reconnect after years of drifting apart. Instead, the isolation highlights how incompatible they’ve become. Their arguments are small at first, about chores, career envy, unspoken resentment, but beneath the surface lies a deeper dread: what if love itself is the thing that’s killing them? That dread takes form when the couple stumbl...

Dave Franco and Alison Brie’s TOGETHER Hits Digital and 4K This Fall

NEON has set a date for the home release of Michael Shanks’ acclaimed horror-romance TOGETHER. The film, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, will be available to buy or rent digitally starting August 26, 2025, with physical editions—including 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo, Blu-ray, and DVD—arriving later in October. Blending relationship drama with body horror, TOGETHER has been described as one of the most entertaining genre films of recent years. Franco and Brie play Tim and Millie, a couple who leave the city in hopes of repairing their strained relationship. Their attempt at a fresh start unravels when they encounter a strange and terrifying presence in their rural home—one that threatens not only their bond but also their very bodies. Alongside its unsettling imagery and dark humor, the movie features a supporting turn from Damon Herriman. Behind the camera, Shanks directs from his own screenplay, with production backed by Mike Cowap, Andrew Mittman, Erik Feig, Julia Hammer, Tim Hea...