By Drew Dietsch | publishing
Together It’s the kind of movie I’ve always wanted to shoot on radar: a non-IP horror movie with a strong premise on it and some good money behind it. A couple begins to merge together and become a physical entity? register! That kind of surreal body horror idea always makes me popular.
But, there is a common idea that I’ve experienced a lot of horror movies recently Together Belongs to this category: “This can be better as a short film or anthology.” Now, considering some of the controversies around it Together There is also a legal case involving allegations of burglary in the short film, which is the darker cloud of this particular film. That said, I don’t have short films or episodes to review. I have a full length story.
As for Together? Let’s see if we can pry these condensed ideas apart things.
A simple story (if simple)
Together It is the feature writing and directorial debut of filmmaker Michael Shanks. Therefore, I want to give him a lot of slack writers. Scripted Together It’s definitely not bad. Instead, this is mainly a simple and shabby metaphor, which does not have much imagination for imagination. Granted, Shanks is better at figuring out all the horrors than this with the special absurdity that such an idea brings.
When it lies down, Together The shock beyond its selling point is not surprising. The event takes place at a decent pace, everything is solid at a pace, but to some extent it starts to be as cold and mechanical as the final show is expected to be truly chaotic. As this idea, the last big beat of the story doesn’t take the bet to unexpected heights. It’s like watching a release toy go faithfully on the table and you know it’s going to get off the edge. It’s not traversing the creative obstacle course, nor surprises you with a hidden jetpack spinning into the living room. You set the toy to drop along the edge of the diameter. That’s the story Together.
Solid horror, fire comedy
Like I mentioned, Michael Shanks did an impressive job of horror Together. There are several knockout nightmare sequences that I won’t forget any time anytime soon, and whenever the movie wants a throat, it will succeed. This question is the level of comedy of this attempt. Dave Franco and Alison Brie are legendary comedy talents, so there is reason to think I don’t blame them for not selling a sense of humor from the page. Apart from a single shot, concept alone is inevitably fun, I just think the scope of comedy in scripts or filmmaking is correct. The attempt was clear – heck, the premise of a person is the maturity of the joke – but nothing made me laugh apart except that shot.
Most of this review will make me look like I hate Together. I don’t! Actually, this makes me a list of famous cinemas, but at the bottom of the ranking. It’s a solid first feature that shows the director’s real hope that it might appeal to audiences who haven’t been exposed to many of these stories. In my book, this is a nice little Didi and I hope there are more surprises in the store.
