Here's a challenge for those in enduring partnerships who appreciate scary movies: Get comfortable with your partner and view Together. The critically acclaimed 2025 movie just made its launch on a streaming platform via Hulu. At first glance, it could look like conventional biological terror, but inside Together exists a intense meditation about the ways we decide to love one another.
A Debut Feature Exploring Partnership Complexities
Together is the introductory feature for director Michael Shanks. It features the real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple named Tim and Millie, an unmarried couple that have stayed together for ten years. United in marriage in reality in 2017, the two stars infuse a unique chemistry to their portrayals, expertly portraying both the joys and frustrations of a enduring union.
The plot begins when Millie and Tim move from the metropolis to the rural area for Millie’s job. A familiar plot device, admittedly, but that’s largely where the tropes conclude. Together becomes as much a psychological exploration of the partnership as it is a body horror flick.
A Supernatural Catalyst
While walking near their rural residence, a storm hits, and the protagonists discover an hole in the earth. After being trapped overnight there and eventually escaping, a mysterious influence takes hold of the couple. This force compels a otherworldly bond between them that goes well past emotional intimacy.
The entire film is a slow burn horror experience, interspersing elements of fever-dream horrors, disturbing (but never too gross) biological grotesqueries, and genuinely funny exchanges (sometimes in the middle of something grotesque). The director weaves these elements together expertly and delivers them in a consistently growing sense of impending doom.
Complex Characterizations
A large part of Together is only the performances of its stars, and they deftly portray numerous complexities to the characters’ relationship. Millie’s confidence and sense of connection is deteriorating due to a emotional and physical gap. Her unspoken irritation of Tim for his unwillingness to chase only his failing musical ambitions gradually emerges.
Conversely, Tim senses confinement and separated by Millie, who’s the impetus they’ve left the city and removed from his social circle. He dreads the notion of completely losing his personal autonomy in Millie. This fear is intensified by the fact he lacks a driver's license and is dependent on Millie for transportation.
The director's cleverest decision is that he avoids making Tim or Millie the obvious villain.
Tim and Millie grapple with the kind of problems that arise in any relationship over a long period. At their core, they continue to care for each other. They still laugh together, offer support, and open up at times. But below this facade, there’s an inescapable current of uncertainty about their future together.
Thematic Depth
While the supernatural forces in Together represent these fears of codependency and giving oneself over to another person, the allegory never feels hamfisted or heavy-handed. Instead, these ickier, creepier moments offer a ideal counterpart to the interpersonal storytelling. Both the horror and the drama serve the other in a mutually beneficial way.
A Divisive Ending
Together’s ending, which remains unspoiled, has created disagreement on the story's concluding statement about enmeshed dynamics. It has been said that unattached audience members have seen the movie as a strong argument for staying single. Meanwhile, some couples experiencing tension found that the film ended up guiding them to make up.
Regardless of your relationship status, your own reaction could act as a telling indicator of how you perceive partnership. Will the ending inspire a sense of discomfort and fear, or a uplifting feeling of optimism? Will you see yourself in one of the characters and scream at your TV, or simply turn to your partner and say, “We could get through that together”?
Regardless of the outcome, Together is an test you can undertake today.
Together is streaming on the streaming service Hulu at present.
