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

We present a challenge for those in enduring partnerships who are fans of the horror genre: Sit down with your loved one and stream Together. The 2025 indie hit has now made its online premiere on Hulu. On the surface, it might appear like typical body horror, but inside Together exists a intense examination about the ways we decide to love one another.

A Directorial Debut Delving into Partnership Complexities

Together is the introductory feature for director Michael Shanks. It stars the real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie as a couple named Tim and Millie, a pair who are not married that have remained a couple for ten years. Married in reality in 2017, the actors bring a special spark to their portrayals, skillfully embodying both the good and bad of a committed partnership.

The plot begins when the couple transition from the big city to the countryside for Millie’s job. A familiar narrative setup, of course, but that’s largely where the cliches cease. Together becomes as much a psychological exploration of the partnership as it is a film about physical terror.

An Otherworldly Trigger

While walking near their new home, a violent storm occurs, and the two discover an subterranean cavern. After being trapped overnight there and eventually escaping, a strange force begins influencing the couple. This force induces a otherworldly bond between them that goes far beyond emotional intimacy.

The entire film is a gradually intensifying fright fest, weaving in bits of hallucinatory nightmares, unsettling (but tastefully done) physical transformations, and genuinely funny exchanges (sometimes in the middle of something disturbing). The director skillfully blends these components expertly and wraps them up in a gradually swelling atmosphere of fear.

Complex Characterizations

A significant portion of Together is only Brie and Franco, and they skillfully illustrate numerous complexities to the partnership at the film's core. Her self-assurance and feeling of intimacy is waning due to a emotional and physical gap. Her underlying frustration of Tim for his hesitance to focus on anything other than his struggling artistic pursuits inexorably rises.

Conversely, Tim experiences isolation and cut off by Millie, who’s the cause they’ve moved to the country and removed from his support system. He fears the idea of totally forfeiting his individual identity in Millie. This fear is intensified by the circumstance he can’t drive and is dependent on Millie for getting around.

The film's most intelligent aspect is that he avoids making either of his characters the clear bad guy.

Both characters grapple with the kind of problems that are inherent in most partnerships after ten years. Deep down, they still love each other. They find humor with each other, comfort one another, and share intimately at times. But under the surface, there’s an persistent current of uncertainty about their bond.

Allegory and Meaning

While the paranormal elements in Together represent these fears of excessive reliance and giving oneself over to a partner, the symbolism does not come across as overly obvious or pretentious. Instead, these ickier, creepier moments present a perfect parallel to the relationship narrative. Both the supernatural and the personal serve the other in a mutually beneficial way.

A Divisive Ending

Together’s conclusion, which remains unspoiled, has created disagreement on the movie's final takeaway about unhealthy partnerships. Accounts suggest that those not in relationships have seen the movie as a strong argument for avoiding commitment. Conversely, certain partners having disagreements found that the film ended up guiding them to make up.

Regardless of your relationship status, your own reaction could function as a great barometer of how you think about commitment. Will the conclusion inspire a sense of discomfort and fear, or a positive outlook on love? Will you identify in either protagonist and scream at your TV, or simply look at your partner and state, “We could get through that together”?

Regardless of the outcome, Together is an experiment you can undertake at this very moment.

Together is streaming on Hulu's platform as of this moment.