This New Horror Film Can Be Streamed, and It Has the Power to Test Your Romantic Bond.

Here's a challenge for partners in committed relationships who appreciate scary movies: Settle in with your partner and watch Together. This 2025 indie hit has now made its streaming debut on the Hulu service. Outwardly, it could look like standard body horror, but within Together resides a profound examination about how we choose to love our partners.

A Directorial Debut Exploring Partnership Complexities

Together marks the debut feature-length film for filmmaker Michael Shanks. It features Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple named Tim and Millie, a pair who are not married that have stayed together for a decade. Married in actuality in 2017, the actors contribute a unique chemistry to their characters, skillfully embodying both the joys and frustrations of a committed partnership.

The story begins when Millie and Tim relocate from the metropolis to the countryside for Millie’s job. A familiar plot device, sure, but that’s largely where the conventions cease. Together becomes as much a examination of mental states of the couple's dynamic as it is a movie featuring biological frights.

A Paranormal Spark

While walking near their new home, a storm hits, and the protagonists discover an hole in the earth. After being trapped overnight there and finally finding a way out, a mysterious influence takes hold of the couple. This force creates a supernatural closeness between them that goes far beyond typical partnership.

The complete narrative is a gradually intensifying fright fest, weaving in moments of hallucinatory nightmares, unsettling (but never too gross) biological grotesqueries, and surprisingly comedic exchanges (sometimes amidst something grotesque). The director orchestrates these parts seamlessly and delivers them in a consistently growing atmosphere of fear.

Nuanced Portrayals

A large part of Together is solely Brie and Franco, and they masterfully render numerous complexities to the partnership at the film's core. Her self-assurance and feeling of intimacy is deteriorating due to a lack of intimacy. Her subconscious resentment of Tim for his unwillingness to focus on anything other than his struggling artistic pursuits inexorably rises.

Tim, on the other hand feels trapped and separated by Millie, who’s the reason they’ve moved to the country and distant from his social circle. He is terrified of the concept of utterly sacrificing his sense of self in another person. This fear is further exacerbated by the fact he can’t drive and relies on Millie for mobility.

The director's cleverest decision in Together avoids making either of his characters the clear bad guy.

Tim and Millie grapple with the sort of issues that are inherent in any relationship a decade in. Fundamentally, they still love each other. They find humor with each other, provide solace, and share intimately at times. But under the surface, there’s an persistent feeling of questioning about their future together.

Allegory and Meaning

While the otherworldly presence in Together symbolize these concerns of codependency and totally devoting oneself to another person, the allegory avoids being clumsy or pretentious. Instead, these more disturbing, unsettling scenes offer a ideal counterpart to the interpersonal storytelling. Both the frights and the fights work together symbiotically.

A Controversial Conclusion

Together’s conclusion, which is best experienced firsthand, has left audiences divided on the story's concluding statement about enmeshed dynamics. Accounts suggest that those not in relationships have understood the narrative as a powerful case for remaining unattached. Conversely, some couples having disagreements found that the film actually helped them reconcile.

If you are alone or with a partner, your own reaction could potentially serve as a great barometer of how you view relationships. Will the ending plant feelings of uneasiness and dread, 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 other half and say, “We could get through that together”?

Whatever the case may be, Together is an test you can undertake at this very moment.

Together is streaming on Hulu at present.