A new body horror movie has landed a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score after being branded ‘a giddy grotesquerie’ by impressed critics.
Together, starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, landed in US cinemas this week, ahead of a UK premiere on August 15.
Michael Shanks’ scare-fest follows lovebirds Tim and Millie who move out to the country, where they have a bizarre, supernatural encounter.
However, things take a creepy turn when their flesh begins fusing to each other, bringing them much closer than they ever anticipated.
Although the flick hasn’t been out long, it has gone down very well with film buffs, and currently claims a near-perfect score from reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to a 79% mark from fans.
Heaping praise on the film, Movie Brief’s Michael Nordine raved: ‘One of the more gruesomely romantic horror movies ever made.’
‘A giddy grotesquerie that has midnight-movie crowd-pleaser written all over it,’ Nick Schager of the Daily Beast agreed.
Owen Gleiberman, for Variety, penned: ‘It’s fun (in a rather bumptious way), it stars two very good actors playing a couple who have as many issues as couples do in real life, and it works as a totally unhinged yet far from mindless thriller built around a Big Idea.’
Deadline Hollywood Daily’s Glenn Garner hailed: ‘Although Alison Brie and husband Dave Franco have shared the screen in the past, they truly sink into each other with some skin-crawling, albeit heartfelt and hilarious performances in writer-director Michael Shanks‘ feature debut Together.’
As the Guardian’s Benjamin Lee added: ‘A convincingly gory argument for being single.’
‘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,’ the official synopsis reads.
‘With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.’
Filmmaker Michael previously opened up about the unsettling plot in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, admitting that it was inspired by his own relationship.
‘I think when anyone is in a long-term relationship, there comes a point where you realize you have the same friends, eat the same food, breathe the same air – you start to wonder if you can truly tell where you end and your partner begins,’ he told the outlet.
‘I thought that was a really compelling place to start to examine in a relationship – what if you took that old cliche of sharing a life and took it to somewhere visceral, and horrifically literal?’
Together is in US cinemas now, ahead of a UK release on August 15.
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