SPOILER WARNING: The following article comprises some spoilers for the brand new horror film Bring Her Back. If in case you have not but seen the movie, proceed at your personal danger!
We’re nonetheless lower than midway via the yr 2025, and but it feels wholly acceptable to anticipate that no film launched between now and the top of December will match the intense depth of Bring Her Back. A mixture of the unrelenting grim ambiance and painful physique horror make it a cinematic expertise you’ll be able to’t assist however squirm via. Albeit in a lot darker vogue, it’s the second time that twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou have unleashed such a nightmare, the characteristic being their second after their critically acclaimed 2023 characteristic debut Talk To Me, and it raises the query: how do they know once they’ve pushed issues too far?
As captured within the video above, I had the pleasure of interviewing the administrators and younger stars of Bring Her Back final month throughout the movie’s Los Angeles press day, and I requested the Philippou brothers about how they meter their sensibilities in relation to the viewers. They’re conscious that their work pushes movie-goers, and it’s one thing that’s saved in thoughts each within the writing of the script and through put up manufacturing. Stated Danny Philippou,
You type of modulate that with just like the script and the edit as nicely. You get to search out the place you are feeling prefer it’s too far and also you steadiness that out. And we have got an incredible producer named Samantha Jennings that helps us there as nicely. It is simply one thing you are feeling out within the writing and the modifying course of.
Tipping a cap to certainly one of their collaborators is notable, because it acknowledges that what the Philippous can abdomen within the content material of their films is probably not what everyone can abdomen. For instance, within the making of Talk To Me, they needed to reduce down the sequence the place Mia glimpses into hell as a result of they had been instructed it wouldn’t get previous scores boards. Of their phrases,
Michael Philippou: I believe our line might be additional than regular folks.
Danny Philippou: It was fairly far.
As expressed in my four-and-a-half star Bring Her Back CinemaBlend assessment, the movie is loads to take, but it surely’s sensible in its execution. I’m a veteran horror fan who’s concurrently disgusted and elated watching the sequence the place Oli chews on the chef’s knife, because it despatched me leaping out of my chair. I additionally simply can’t laud the counter-chewing scene sufficient (that sound design!).
Bring Her Back is a particular expertise dropped at life by filmmakers with a particular and horrifying imaginative and prescient, and I’m past excited to see every thing that they’ve within the works (together with Talk To Me 2). Starring Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, and Jonah Wren Phillips, the A24 launch is now enjoying in theaters all over the place, and each style fan ought to make nice strides to not miss it.
