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The Sundance Film Festival is almost at an end and we haven’t really heard anything amazing on the horror front coming out of the event; at least nothing like we are used to. Films such Dead Alive (1993), The Babadook (2014), The Blair Witch Project (1999), American Psycho (2000), and Hereditary (2018) had their premieres at the Park City, Utah, festival.
However, today at least one horror film is making news. The film Together starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, got Neon’s attention and they won a bidding war that included hagglers from A24 and Mubi. Variety reports that its premiere “was met with screams, laughs and squirms of discomfort during the film’s more sickening moments” from the audience.
We have pulled the full synopsis from the Sundance site, and copied it below:
“With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.
Writer-director Michael Shanks approaches horror with a devilish exuberance that relishes in creating wildly expressive nightmarish moments. His feature-length directorial debut pulls off an impressive progression of body horror freak-outs as it follows a dysfunctional couple’s big move away from the city to a more isolated existence. As they lose contact with home, friends, and their sense of self beyond their troubled dynamic, Shanks’ clever script grounds their emotional turmoil within its extreme take on the horrors of codependent relationships. With this couple, things will have to get worse — like a lot worse — before they get better. Bringing an unquantifiable chemistry to their roles, Dave Franco and Alison Brie give their all to this freakish world, diving headfirst into a physical and emotional maelstrom.” —Charlie Sextro
Let us know if you are excited to see this one when it comes out. Or, if you have seen it let us know what you thought.