This New Horror Film Can Be Streamed, and It Might Make or Break Your Relationship.

Here's a test for those in enduring partnerships who are fans of the horror genre: Get comfortable with your significant other and watch Together. The independent film success of 2025 just made its streaming debut on Hulu. On the surface, it might appear like conventional physical horror, but beneath Together resides a deep contemplation about how we choose to love one another.

A Debut Feature Delving into Partnership Complexities

Together marks the debut feature-length film for filmmaker Michael Shanks. It showcases the real-life married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie as Tim and Millie, a pair who are not married that have been together for a decade. United in marriage in reality in 2017, the actors contribute a special spark to their roles, expertly portraying both the strengths and weaknesses of a committed partnership.

The plot starts when Tim and Millie relocate from the metropolis to the countryside for Millie’s job. A familiar story element, sure, but that’s primarily where the cliches conclude. Together becomes as much a deep dive into the psyche of the partnership as it is a movie featuring biological frights.

An Otherworldly Trigger

While hiking near their rural residence, a tempest descends, and Millie and Tim fall into an subterranean cavern. After a night spent there and eventually escaping, a strange force takes hold of the pair. This force induces a supernatural closeness between them that goes exceeding typical partnership.

The whole movie is a gradually intensifying of scares, interspersing moments of dreamlike terrors, gross (but never too gross) body horror, and surprisingly comedic interactions (sometimes amidst something horrific). Shanks weaves these elements together neatly and wraps them up in a gradually swelling atmosphere of fear.

Nuanced Portrayals

A large part of Together is solely the performances of its stars, and they skillfully illustrate manifold depths to the partnership at the film's core. Millie's sense of self and sense of connection is deteriorating due to a distance. Her underlying frustration of Tim for his reluctance to pursue anything but his failing musical ambitions gradually emerges.

In contrast, Tim's character senses confinement and cut off by Millie, who’s the reason they’ve moved to the country and removed from his support system. He is terrified of the concept of completely losing his individual identity in his partner. This fear is intensified by the fact he does not operate a vehicle and needs Millie for transportation.

The director's cleverest decision in Together refrains from painting one partner or the other the definite antagonist.

Both characters grapple with the kind of problems that arise in long-term unions a decade in. Fundamentally, they have affection for each other. They share moments of joy, offer support, and open up at times. But below this facade, there’s an persistent current of uncertainty about their future together.

Symbolism and Metaphor

While the supernatural forces in Together represent these concerns of unhealthy attachment and totally devoting oneself to a partner, the allegory never feels hamfisted or heavy-handed. Instead, these more disturbing, unsettling scenes provide a ideal counterpart to the relationship narrative. Both the supernatural and the personal work together in a mutually beneficial way.

A Controversial Conclusion

Together’s final act, which won’t be spoiled here, has left audiences divided on the movie's final takeaway about unhealthy partnerships. Accounts suggest that unattached audience members have interpreted the film as a powerful case for remaining unattached. On the other hand, certain partners having disagreements found that the film actually helped them reconcile.

If you are alone or with a partner, your own response could act as a telling indicator of how you view relationships. Will the finale plant anxiety and horror, or a positive outlook on love? Will you recognize your own traits in either protagonist and feel frustration, or simply look at your significant other and say, “I’d do that for you”?

Whatever the case may be, Together is an test you can undertake today.

Together is streaming on Hulu now.