Happy Halloween, and welcome to the final movie in this year's countdown!
As in years past, I like to end this adventure with a movie that's pretty new, or at least newish. This time it's Together, which is not yet on a streaming service, but can be rented online. I was recently staying at a hotel that offered a free movie rental each night, so I was happy to take advantage of the opportunity to watch it that way, especially since the rental cost at that time was an insane $32!
Real life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco star as Millie and Tim, a dysfunctional couple who move to a new town together after a disastrous marriage proposal. When on a hike in the woods near their home, they literally stumble into a cave with some mysterious drawings and find themselves stuck inside during a storm. Because they are in a horror movie, Tim decides to go ahead and drink the water from the pool in the cave, because why not.
The next morning, they start to find their bodies sticking together whenever they touch, and thus begins the film's very obvious if still effective central metaphor.
I'll admit I was a little nervous going in, as body horror is probably the one sub-genre of horror that can most easily make me gag, but Together is not as gross as I feared it would be, and a lot of its more disturbing moments are implied more than graphically depicted, such as when Millie and Tim have sex and can't...disengage.
I've found after watching so many horror movies that it's the very rare film that has an ending that can truly live up to what has come before, although I suppose that can also be said of most films. Endings are hard! But for horror movies I tend to be a little more dissatisfied with the it all happened because of *waves hands vaguely* endings, especially when what has come before that is strong. I want it all to tie together perfectly. Together's ending did not tie together for me, and I almost would have preferred no explanation at all over the gobbledygook that's provided. Still! What comes before is entertaining enough, and definitely one of the more original depictions of dysfunction and co-dependence in a relationship I've ever seen.
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Happy Halloween! Have a good one!
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