The writer-director's debut Michael Hanks "Together"-Coe finally played in theaters, after being shown at several film festivals-what predicts almost every uncomfortable, stomach reduction and ties before they appear. You think this would be bad for a horror movie (Since the horror genre tends to rejoice in surprises), but somehow knowing much of what comes from creating a constantly growing and suffocating uncertainty that holds you like a pair of invisible hands. From the first scene of a pair of search dogs that drink from an underground irrigation hole, and then behave weird in the way the animals in horror films make, you immediately have an almost crystal clear idea of where it goes "together".

Shanks does not use unnecessary pseudo-mysades or tired tricks. He believes that viewers can add two and two together: body horror + suggestive title + missing people + co-dependent couples moving to a small town soaked in Erica = atmospheric, disturbing and dark funny shooting story, but perhaps redeemed. It also doesn't matter if you can predict some of the more obvious plot twists; The question here is not so much "where does all this go?" As is "How do we get to the inevitable end of this story?" Indeed, "how" is the fun part of "Together", a movie that - with its delicious scares, dark jokes and surprisingly emotional narrative - brings mind Own Horror on the Body of Coral Fargheat, the "substance".

Team "Together" centers (Dave Franco) and Million (Allison Bri), a couple that makes the big jump: leaving the noisy city for the isolated village. At their farewell party, they swear by their friends that they will not become strangers, but we know how this is going. Moving to a small town in any horror film is a practical death penalty, especially for a relatively young couple. So, it didn't catch us from guard when, after the move, the two discover that a local couple disappeared exactly in the forest neck of their new home, not long before they arrived.

Unfortunately, Tim and Milli are too scattered by their dysfunctional loveUB life to give a lot of mind to this news that does not put it. The first is still suffering from PTSD to see his parents dying while referring to a career crisis as a failed musician. Milli, on the other hand, is progressing, as she only grabbed a rare and well -paid teaching work at a local school. Since they are in the opposite places in their lives, friction in their relationship is inevitable. Not to mention that Milli suggested to a team of goodbye, which made him completely freeze, making it suspicious of their future. Is he ready to calm down and spend the rest of her life with her despite not realizing his professional ambitions? It is a frightening question for every person in the mid-30s.

However, Tim is trying - even if he rejects every invitation from his girlfriend to have sex at the expense of his emotionally winning space. Hoping to return his romance, he proposes to take a walk in the nearby forest, which quickly leads to nearly disaster. Since the rainstorm interrupts their raise, the two fall into a cave that gives great cult vibrations with ancient bells, malicious signs, and eerie aura that crawls them and us as viewers. Of course, we know that the place is where we had previously seen the two dogs before the wild left and began to physically absorb their meat. And as soon as a team drinks from the same irrigation hole (in real, mistakes, made of horror film fashion), we are sure that what comes will be a nightmare of gum and burning.

Despite the premise of the film, driving the absurd and unwanted entertaining idea, the Shanks does not create a semi-gaz creating a frightening and frightening atmosphere. Awkward quarrels and dark humor sideways, "Together" is filled with the haunting, darkness of the spine And the disturbing rates of another world presence are slowly approaching. There is no monster here (unless we count the debate and frightening commitment to a significant other), but the Shanks generates exciting effective images in the form of dreams and visions and puts a few sneaky jumps in the scenes where you least expected them, while digging a deeper and deeper hole.

It is a perfect fusion that equally encourages the plot and varnish of the characters, gradually revealing new information about the cave and the origin of its dense matter, as well as bringing us closer to the deepening of the team and Millie as a couple. Speaking of what, the Shanks also gets a lot of mileage from the chemistry of Franco and Bri, even without trying. No doubt, it helps the two to be married in real life, and their smooth and often sexual dynamics are pouring through the screen here when the most important thing is. Therefore, the jokes of the film and their characters stab the disadvantages of the land with hardships, ensuring the release of pressure before the terror to overcome the viewer.

It should be made an argument that the shanks could go deeper (as in, literally meat and bone) when it comes to the pretty balanced film, if a slightly restrained Gore (as, say, the way Fargei did in the "substance"), but the lack of truly gross illness. What can hurt it, however, is the fact that the Shanks, along with Franco and Bri (who are also producers), is Facing a lawsuit for theft of ideas Of the creatives behind barely 2023, Indy Roma-Com "Better Half". Whether the indictment actually has a leg to stop is a different thing, but it cannot overshadow that "together" is an impressive and delicious bizarre debut debut of promising upward Australian director.

"Together" now he plays in cinemas.