This New Horror Film Is Now Streaming, and It Has the Power to Test Your Partnership.

Consider this a dare for those in enduring partnerships who appreciate horror films: Settle in with your loved one and watch Together. The 2025 indie hit recently had its online premiere on Hulu. On the surface, it might appear like conventional physical horror, but beneath Together resides a profound contemplation about our choices in loving one another.

A Directorial Debut Investigating The Nuances of Love

Together marks the debut feature-length film for filmmaker Michael Shanks. It showcases actors Alison Brie and Dave Franco as a couple named Tim and Millie, a pair who are not married that have stayed together for ten years. United in marriage in real life in 2017, the two stars contribute a special spark to their portrayals, expertly portraying both the good and bad of a committed partnership.

The story commences when Tim and Millie move from the urban environment to the countryside for Millie’s job. A commonly used plot device, admittedly, but that’s mostly where the conventions cease. Together transforms into as much a examination of mental states of the pair’s relationship as it is a body horror flick.

A Paranormal Spark

While walking near their country house, a violent storm occurs, and Millie and Tim discover an hole in the earth. After being trapped overnight there and finally finding a way out, a mysterious influence takes hold of the pair. This force compels a paranormal intimacy between them that goes well past simple connection.

The whole movie is a methodically building of scares, interspersing moments of dreamlike terrors, unsettling (but not excessively graphic) body horror, and genuinely funny exchanges (sometimes amidst something grotesque). The director skillfully blends these components expertly and wraps them up in a consistently growing sense of impending doom.

Nuanced Portrayals

A large part of Together is only the two lead actors, and they masterfully render manifold depths to the dynamic between Tim and Millie. Millie’s confidence 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 failing musical ambitions inexorably rises.

Conversely, Tim experiences isolation and cut off by Millie, who’s the impetus they’ve left the city and distant from his social circle. He dreads the idea of totally forfeiting his personal autonomy in his partner. This fear is amplified by the fact he can’t drive and relies on Millie for mobility.

The director's cleverest decision in Together avoids making one partner or the other the clear bad guy.

Tim and Millie face the sort of issues that arise in any relationship a decade in. Fundamentally, they continue to care for each other. They find humor with each other, offer support, and share intimately at times. But under the surface, there’s an persistent current of uncertainty about their future together.

Symbolism and Metaphor

While the otherworldly presence in Together symbolize these concerns of unhealthy attachment and giving oneself over to a partner, the metaphor never feels clumsy or heavy-handed. Instead, these ickier, creepier moments offer a ideal counterpart to the relationship narrative. Both the frights and the fights serve the other symbiotically.

A Divisive Ending

Together’s ending, which is best experienced firsthand, has left audiences divided on the story's concluding statement about unhealthy partnerships. Accounts suggest that single viewers have understood the narrative as a powerful case for staying single. Meanwhile, certain partners who were in conflict found that the film actually helped them make up.

If you are alone or with a partner, your own response could potentially serve as a telling indicator of how you perceive partnership. Will the finale sow anxiety and horror, or a positive outlook on love? Will you recognize your own traits in Tim or Millie and yell at the screen, or simply look at your other half and utter, “We could get through that together”?

Regardless of the outcome, Together is an exploration you can embark on today.

Together is streaming on the streaming service Hulu at present.