Together Blu-ray

Movies of every kind have struggled at the box office in 2025, but one genre that has shown greater resilience than most is horror. Horror has relied as heavily on franchises as any genre, but this year, originality has been rewarded along with the well-timed sequels. Warner Bros.’ Sinners and Weapons are two of 2025’s most acclaimed films and their success was not based on any proven property.

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It is often easy for original horror movies to keep their costs down. A marketable premise and a single effective trailer can be enough to hook audiences and, if the movie is good, that gets the ball rolling on word of mouth. That in turn can easily lift return on investment to heights beyond the reach of any big-budget tentpole. Going this route doesn’t require big name stars doing late night talk shows or a strategic awards campaign rollout, just some good ideas and sharp execution.

While the big studios have often courted horror moviegoers with such low-cost, high-concept fare, this market is of greater importance to hipper, younger studios like A24 and Neon. These mini-majors have built their reputations on elevated horror and continue to take chances on bold, original ideas and potentially hard sells.

One year after Longlegs became Neon’s all-time highest-grossing flick, the studio gave a prime summer release date to Together. The feature debut of Australian writer-director Michael Shanks, this body horror tale finds longtime couple Tim (Dave Franco) and Millie (Alison Brie) moving to the remote countryside. They’ve just become engaged in a spectacularly awkward fashion, as Tim wonders if the relationship is worth sacrificing the musician dreams he’s long harbored.

Complicating matters much further, the couple discovers after an encounter in a cave that their bodies are now interacting in an unusual fashion. They’re increasingly finding themselves literally stuck to one another and this bond is becoming harder and harder to sever. One night, he nearly chokes to death on her hair.

Produced independently, Together premiered at Sundance in January and was subsequently acquired by Neon in a bidding war. With its clever, unusual concept presented capably in inviting trailers and TV spots, it unsurprisingly found an audience in theaters. Not a Sinners or Weapons-sized audience, but still big enough to rank as Neon’s fifth highest-grossing film to date with grosses of $21 M domestic and $33 M worldwide. If the film was as frugally produced as it looks, it’d be a clear commercial triumph, but Neon acquired the film for $17 million, pretty comparable to the $12 M MUBI spent on The Substance, the body horror movie that became an international hit and major awards contender a year ago.

Together does provide the genuinely unsettling visuals required by the premise and these effects are improbably convincing, inducing plenty of winces throughout. It also fills its principal roles with two seasoned, well-liked actors who happen to be a real-life married couple. This is inspired casting and would have made for well-deserved big breaks for the dependable pros who have been popping up in television and movies for nearly half their lives. Franco is probably best known for co-starring with his older brother James in The Disaster Artist, supporting roles in R-rated comedies like Neighbors and 21 Jump Street, and his role as one of the Four Horsemen in the just-threequeled Now You See Me magician heist thriller franchise. Brie has earned millions of fans from the TV series “Community” and “GLOW” plus dozens of indies and no shortage of voiceover work.

These young 40-something leads bring their inherent likability, the comfort established by their considerable resumes and their real-life chemistry here and Together unquestionably benefits from all of that. It’s easy to imagine this movie engaging less with greener actors anchoring the relationship drama.

BLU-RAY DISC SPECIFICATIONS:
1.85:1 Widescreen
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (English), DTS-HD MA 2.0 (Descriptive Video Service)
Subtitles: English for Hearing Impaired, French, Spanish
Release Date: November 11, 2025
Single-sided, single-layered disc (BD-25)
Blue Keepcase

VIDEO and AUDIO

Picture and sound are just fine by the standards of Blu-ray, although Neon has also given this a 4K Ultra HD edition for those who have moved past 1080p.

BONUS FEATURES, MENUS, PACKAGING and DESIGN

The Blu-ray’s easily digested extras begin with a short, informative interview of writer-director Michael Shanks (5:05) on his influences and intentions. Next, stars/spouses Allison Brie and Dave Franco discuss the film…together (5:46), inevitably addressing how to mix work and family, but also touching on the use of practical effects (at which we’re given far too fleeting behind-the-scenes looks).

With a title suggesting a return to the days of interactive DVD extras, “Codependency Quiz” (1:01) proved to be a letdown. It simply lets Franco and Brie quiz each other every so briefly on their relationship as part of the prior promotional interview.

Extras draw to a close with Together‘s effective teaser (1:22) and full trailer (2:17), the latter of which gives a fun, dramatic update to The Turtles’ “Happy Together.”

The disc opens with trailers for Alpha and Splitsville.

The unscored menu loops some of the eerier moments from the film. No insert or slipcover accompanies the plain blue keepcase.

CLOSING THOUGHTS

Together‘s combination of body horror and relationship drama is creative enough to warrant a look. Neon’s basic but satisfactory Blu-ray is a good way to give it that look.

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