Together (2025) – Review

Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

Before Together even started, I wasn’t prepared for what I was getting into. This was one of those films where the trailer didn’t fully betray the depth of the weirdness. It sells you on a relationship drama with a dark mystery — and, technically, that’s what it is… but that’s like calling The Thing “an Antarctic research documentary.”


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Non-Spoiler Setup

We follow Millie and Tim — a couple who’ve been together a while, trying to make things work. Millie (a future teacher) is the more grounded one. Tim is a wannabe musician with a habit of drinking whatever alcohol is in reach. They’re clearly in love, but they’re also clearly not prepared for what’s coming.

Early on, we meet Jamie, Millie’s teacher. He’s this mild, slightly odd man who recommends they go take a hike in the forest — a recommendation that turns out to be the worst advice anyone in this film could have given.


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Early Plot Impressions

That hike is where everything starts. Tim notices bells hanging from tree branches. Rain pours. They get lost. They fall into a hole — the same hole two dogs fell into in the opening scene. They spend the night there. Tim uses his lighter to start a fire with wood from chairs embedded in the walls. They drink water from the pit. And, whether they know it or not, that’s when the curse begins.

When they return, Millie’s world starts to tilt in ways that even Tim can’t explain. Their bond becomes something darker, stranger… and a lot harder to break.


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The Creepy Segment

We get an early bedroom scene that still baffles me in context: Millie tells Tim to tell “them” to be quiet so she can sleep. Who “them” is, the film never clarifies.

Tim then looks across the bed and sees a woman smiling at him in this sadistic way, breathing heavily. Lying next to her is the rotting corpse of Tim’s father. Later, Tim finds a clump of dead mice in a ceiling lamp — it squirms in his hands before he drops it. And then, just to up the nightmare fuel, we get a second bedroom scene: Millie wakes to find Tim wide-eyed, mouth open, a huge chunk of her hair lodged in his throat. She has to pull it out while he gags.

When Tim tries to tell her about the smiling woman — who he says is her mother — Millie just won’t believe him. Frustrated, she visits Jamie at his yellow house (in the daytime). On his doorstep is a bell, the same kind from the forest. Inside, Jamie tells her about a man named Pladough, who believed the gods originally made humans with two heads and six limbs, then split them apart, cursing us to search forever for our “other half.”


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The Creepy Shift

Back at school, Millie draws a picture of a dog and shows it to a young girl. The girl just says, “Nope, not anymore.” And the unease only ramps up from there.

Tim, meanwhile, was supposed to perform music but ends up at the train station instead. When he returns, his paranoia spikes. They fight. Millie visits Jamie again, and the cult undertones start showing.


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Pros

The atmosphere is incredible — it’s intimate, eerie, and laced with surreal dread. I wasn’t expecting there to be as much comedy as there is, but it’s there, and it works surprisingly well. I’ll leave those moments for you to discover.


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Cons

That third act. I’m beyond tired of cult-related twists. It’s become such a trope that it pulls me right out of otherwise great horror films. And that first bedroom scene? Still makes no sense in the grand scheme of things.


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Rating

Solid 7/10. If it weren’t for the ending, this would’ve been a 10/10 for me. But that’s just one man’s opinion — don’t let my gripes stop you from forming your own.


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Spoilers Ahead – Full Breakdown

The forest bells, the hole, the water — it all ties into what’s coming. Eventually, Tim and Millie are pulled back to the front of the house. They stand apart, but something invisible yanks them together, contorting their bones as they’re dragged closer. Tim realizes there’s only one way out. He gets on his knees, proposes to Millie, tells her to close her eyes, and readies a knife against his neck. But then he sees blood moving toward him — coming from Millie’s cut arm. She collapses into his lap, dying. She asks him to make their final social media post about them “together,” then dies in his arms.

He carries her inside. She wakes, confused. He says he had to stop the bleeding. She looks down and realizes their right arms are fused together. He uses his free left hand to play her favorite song on vinyl — Spice. They dance. Tim asks if she wants “this,” and she says yes. Clothes come off, they kiss, and their bodies begin to merge — arms fusing into their backs, torsos melding, lips and then eyes becoming one.

The next morning, a table is set with three bowls. Millie’s parents arrive, ring the doorbell — the exact same bell from Jamie’s house and the forest. The door opens to reveal an androgynous figure, a perfect blend of Tim and Millie, greeting them calmly. Fade to black.

On a side tangent, One of my biggest gripes with Together is that the supernatural element gets completely defanged the moment they explain it. And not even in a cool, “oh wow, that’s creepier than I thought” kind of way — no. They boil it down to drum roll … a cult. Yes, the grand mystery, the eerie vibes, the spooky “what’s in the water?” tension all circle back to basically, “Here’s a metaphor for marriage counseling.”

Like… so is the water hole supposed to be a glorified relationship therapist? “You must become one and accept each other” — get the hell out of here with that. That’s not scary. That’s not mysterious. That’s the plot of every Hallmark Channel holiday movie, just with more damp moss.

And once you can pinpoint the source of the supernatural and say, “Eh, just some cult stuff and a relationship metaphor,” it loses all its bite. The unknown is what made it tense. The second you slap a neat little label on it, the fear evaporates. What was once unsettling and otherworldly is now just… marriage counseling with extra steps.

Congratulations sit down get married won’t u!