US Edition'Bring Her Back' trailer teases Sally Hawkins' dark secret
- Bring Her Back is a grief-driven horror film directed by Danny and Michael Philippou that opens in theaters on May 30, 2025.
- The story follows Andy and Piper, siblings taken in by Laura after their father dies suddenly, sparking the film’s dark events.
- Laura, played by Sally Hawkins, reveals a disturbing plan to bring back her dead blind daughter through a cruel ritual involving the children.
- Hawkins delivers a performance mixing warmth and menace, as the film visually intensifies through unsettling body horror and haunting cinematography.
- The film explores grief’s corrupting effects and ends in a tragic resolution, though its pacing and vague supernatural aspects may divide viewers.
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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Gaslights Kids & Channels Grief Into Terror In The Philippous’ Trauma-Soaked Sophomore Feature
Danny and Michael Philippou’s sophomore feature is another grief-driven horror that doubles down on the darkness with help from Sally Hawkins and a talented young ensemble. In Bring Her Back, Billy Barratt and Sora Wong play Andy and Piper, two siblings who are sent to live with a seemingly warm foster mother, Laura (Hawkins), after […]
‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Is a Haunted Mother in Philippou Brothers’ Disturbing and Melancholic Follow-Up to ‘Talk to Me’
In the Sally Hawkins-starring 'Bring Her Back,' Danny and Michael Philippou explore how grief drives people to behave in unimaginable ways.
Sally Hawkins Saves 'Bring Her Back' From Being A Little Too Familiar
A24It’s an ordinary day for Andy (Billy Barratt), and his younger step-sister, Piper (Sora Wong). Piper, who was born visually impaired, approaches a group of girls at their school bus stop and, when the girls snicker at her disability behind her back, Andy lies to her: they liked her, he says with a grim smile that Piper can’t see. Piper, for whom Andy is her whole world, believes him, and they head home. But what they find at home turns their …
Bring Her Back Review
Bring Her Back opens in theaters Friday, May 30.Grief-stricken horror has enjoyed a few peaks over the last decade – Ari Aster’s Hereditary chief among them. In the latest addition to that subgenre, Bring Her Back, Aster’s A24 cohorts Danny and Michael Philippou test the limits of what a mother is willing to do in order to spend more time with her deceased child. It’s the follow-up to their successful debut, Talk to Me – that movie was about a r…
‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Is Psychotically Good in Yet Another Horror Movie About Grief
"Talk to Me" directors Danny and Michael Philippou deliver a conceptually half-baked horror movie about a dangerously unwell foster mother's ritual to resurrect her dead child.
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