Move over, The Substance, there’s another hot new body horror in town! One of my favorite 2025 Sundance Film Festival premieres is this feature directorial debut called Together from the Midnight section of the line-up this year. It’s the first full-length feature from the superbly talented Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks, best known for his award-winning stop-motion short film Rebooted about an out-of-work skeleton in Hollywood. Shanks not only aced that short film, but now he’s rocking Sundance with his orignial body horror comedy. Together stars real life couple Alison Brie & Dave Franco as a couple in the film. It’s a body horror about codependency in relationships, and let’s just say the freaky horror element is about them uh “coming together” in disgusting ways. Yes it’s impossible not to compare it to The Substance, but it’s also unique in many of its own ways, and above all keeps the trend going of terrific body horror films nowadays. // Continue Reading ›
