Dave Franco and Alison Brie have made the midnight movie of the year.

At January’s Sundance Film Festival, no selection was more raucously received than Together, a body-horror thriller about a relationship that gives new meaning to the term co-dependent.

Written and directed by Michael Shanks (in his feature debut), it tells the tale of a young couple whose move from the city to the countryside is fraught with tensions that are wildly exacerbated by a freak accident that draws them together in the most monstrous fashion imaginable. Indebted to The Thing, The Substance, and the works of David Cronenberg (among others), it’s a film built to provoke squirms, laughs, and gasps, often in rapid succession.

To date, it’s 2025’s most entertaining nightmare.

Shanks’ direction is central to T

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