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.

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

A really well done movie that leaves you guessing what’s truly going on the whole time. Great performances, well shot, and some disturbing moments makes this an easy recommend

It was fucking fantastic watch, really makes you feel and care about the characters. Me and my partner enjoyed it so much.
I was actually so scared too and even tho it didn’t really have jumpscares, it gets really creepy