By Drew Dietsch | Published
Together is the kind of film I always want to have on my radar: a non -IP horror film with a strong hook of a premise that has decent money behind. A couple begins to merge together into a single fleshy entity? Register me! This kind of horror idea on the surrealist body will always make me burst.
However, there is an omnipresent thought that I feel a lot with horror films recently and Together fell into this category: “It would work better as a short film or an episode of an anthology.” Now considering a controversy surrounding Together And a legal affair involving allegations of plagiarism of a short film, this thought is an even darker cloud for this particular film. That said, I don’t have a short film or an episode to revise. I have a complete story.
And with regard to this Together? Let us see if we can separate these frozen thoughts into something separate.
A simple story (so simplistic)
Together is the feature film and realization of the beginnings for the filmmaker Michael Shanks. As such, I want to give him a lot of soft as a writer. The script for Together Is it not bad. Instead, it is mainly simple and well -used tropes that do not leave much to imagination. Admittedly, Shanks as a director is much more able to nail the horror of all this than the particular absurdity that comes with an idea like this.
As he is posing, Together does not offer much surprising beyond the shock of his sale argument. The events take place at a decent pace and the rhythm of everything is solid, but to such a degree that it begins to prove to be coldly mechanical when the final act promises a real chaos. Because the idea is also crazy, the great final rhythms of history do not bring the issues to unexpected peaks. It’s like watching a liquidation toy make your way through a table where you know that it will fall from the edge. It does not cross a creative obstacle course or will not surprise you by bending in the living room with a hidden jetpack. You define this toy to fall from an edge along a straight path. This is the story of Together.
Solid horror, failed comedy
As I mentioned, Michael Shanks does an impressive job with the horror side of Together. There are some nightmare sequences with direct elimination that I will not forget any soon, and each time the film wants to go for the throat, it succeeds. The problem comes with these comedy levels. Dave Franco and Alison Brie are comic vegetable talents, so it goes without saying that I do not blame them for not being able to sell the sense of humor on the page. Apart from a single blow, the concept of which alone is inevitably funny, I do not think that the script or the cinema are always on the right wavelength for comedy. The attempts are there and clear – devil, the premise itself alone is ripe for the jokes – but nothing outside this one has never laughed at me.
The majority of this review will give the impression that I hated Together. I didn’t do it! In fact, this made my notable cinema list, but is at the lower end of the classification. This is a first solid feature that shows a real promise of a director, and it will probably send Tordus viewers who have not been exposed to so many stories like this. In my book, it’s a beautiful little Diddy that I want to have more surprises in store.
