Together is now streaming on Hulu, and it might make or break your relationship
Thanks to Alison Brie and Dave Franco's performances, Together is just as much a film about fears of intimacy as it is body horror.
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Codependency meets body horror
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Here’s a challenge for any horror fans in a long-term relationship: Sit down with your partner and watch Together. The 2025 indie hit just made its streaming debut on Hulu, and while on the surface it may seem like standard body horror, within Together lies a deep contemplation about how we choose to love one another.
Together is the debut feature-length film for director Michael Shanks and stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie as Tim and Millie, an unmarried couple that have been together for a decade. Having wed in real life in 2017, Franco and Brie bring a special spark to their roles, skillfully embodying both the good and bad of a relationship. Through its blend of scares and emotional examination, what sticks with you may be very illuminating: Are you more terrified of the supernatural forces at play, or codependency?
The story begins when Millie and Tim move from the big city to the countryside for Millie’s job. A somewhat stereotypical plot device, sure, but that’s largely where the tropes end and Together becomes as much a psychological exploration of the pair’s relationship as it is a body horror flick.
While hiking near their home, a storm hits, and Millie and Tim fall into an underground cave. After spending the night there and eventually escaping, a strange force begins influencing the couple, forcing a supernatural closeness between them that goes far beyond emotional intimacy. The entire film is a slow burn of scares, interspersing bits of hallucinatory nightmares, gross (but never too gross) body horror, and genuinely funny exchanges (sometimes in the middle of something grotesque). Shanks weaves these elements together neatly and wraps them up in a gradually swelling aura of dread.
A great deal of Together is solely Brie and Franco, and they deftly portray countless layers to the characters’ relationship. Millie’s confidence and sense of connection is suffering due to a lack of intimacy, and her subconscious resentment of Tim for his reluctance to pursue anything but his floundering music career slowly bubbles to the surface.