Bring Her Back

9.0 - Is there anything more terrifying than a mother’s love?

Not very often does a movie, especially a horror, live up to its pre-release hype. And this is close.

It’s a relatively fresh take on both psychological & cult horror which is really hard to do nowadays, especially with the over-saturation of both sub-genres over the last 15ish years. But the Philippou brothers delivered again & provided some of the most striking & gruesome scenes of the last couple years.

It fits well in the A24 “indie” vibe where most of the horror isn’t in jump scares or terrible monsters but just in human action & general aura. Sally Hawkins gives her best performance I’ve seen, & absolutely carries the weight of the horror elements, but all three primary youth actors absolutely held their0 own as well.

When compared directly to Talk to Me, it’s not lingering with me as a complete work quite as hard, & it wasn’t as direct & easy to piece together, but the slow build suspense to absolute balls to the wall shock is there.

It might need a second watch for it to fully all come together, but I think it could end up being one of the year’s best in what looks to be an absolutely loaded slate for the horror genre.

Just like with Talk to Me, my jaw was on the freaking floor after about half an hour into the movie from a specific scene that is now drilled into my mind. 😷

Anyways, Sally Hawkins was a perfect fit for this movie and even though I think seeing movies on the big screen makes me favor them more in the moment, I’d like to think that I really did love this one regardless.

managed to say the titles of both their movies in this one let’s gooo

That woman pissed me AWF

10/10

7/10

Strong gore, wasn’t that scary unfortunately