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By Drew Dietsch | Published
Together It is the type of film that I always want to have on my radar: a horror movie without IP with a strong hook of a premise that has some decent money behind. A couple begins to merge together in a single fleshy entity? Sign it! That kind of terror idea of surreal body will always make me explode.
However, there is a generalized thought that I am experiencing a lot with horror films in recent times and Together It fell into this category: “This would work better as short film or episode of an anthology.” Now, considering some controversy around Together And a legal case that involves accusations of plagiarism of a short film, that thought is an even darker cloud for this particular film. That said, I do not have a short film or episode to review. I have a complete story.
And as for that Together? Let’s see if we can separate these frozen thoughts into something separate.
A direct story (although simplistic)
Together It is the writing of functions and the debut led by filmmaker Michael Shanks. As such, I want to give him a lot of slack as a writer. The script for Together It is no way bad. On the other hand, they are mostly simple and well worn that do not leave much for the imagination. Okay, Shanks as a director is much more expert in nailing the horror of everything than the particular absurdity that comes along with an idea like this.
As is, Together It does not offer much surprising beyond the shock of its point of sale. The events are developed at a decent rhythm and the rhythm of everything is solid, but to such an extent that it begins to appear so coldly mechanical for when the final act is a real chaos. For more bonds such as the idea, the great final rhythms of history do not bring bets to unexpected heights. It is like seeing a liquidation toy leave obediently through a table where you know that it will fall from the edge. It does not cross a career of creative obstacles or will surprise you shooting in the living room with a hidden jetpack. You put that toy to fall from an edge along a straight road. That is the story of Together.
Solid horror, failure comedy
As I mentioned, Michael Shanks does an impressive job with the horror side of Together. There are some knockout nightmare sequences that I will not forget in the short term, and every time the film wants to go through the throat, it succeeds. The problem comes with this comedy level attempt. Dave Franco and Alison Brie are comic talents, so it is logical that I do not blame them for not being able to sell the sense of humor of the page. Outside a single shot whose concept is only inevitably fun, I just don’t think the script or cinema are always in the right wavelength for comedy. The attempts are there and clear, devils, only the premise is mature for the jokes, but nothing out of that shot laughed at me.
Most of this review will make it look like I hate Together. I did not do it! In fact, it was made My notable film list But it is at the lower end of the classification. This is a first solid characteristic that shows a true promise of a director, and probably embraced twisted spectators who have not been exposed to as many stories as this. In my book, this is a good little Diddy who would like to have more surprises in the store.
