Every couple goes through hard times, and Alison Brie and Dave Franco are no different.
On Mar. 19, Neon dropped the first teaser trailer for Together, a body-horror romance film about Millie (Alison Brie) and Tim (Dave Franco), a couple who move to the countryside so that Millie can take a teaching job at a local school. One day, Millie and Tim decide to hike in a nearby forest, where they encounter a supernatural force that slowly alters their relationship, their lives, and even their physical forms.
There is almost no dialogue in the entire trailer. In its place, a peaceful piano melody plays, underscoring the eerie footage of the couple as their lives and love begin to disintegrate.
“I love you,” Tim says to Millie, uttering the first words spoken in the trailer. Millie replies with a mournful: “I love you too.”
Along with real-life partners Brie and Franco, the cast also features Damon Herriman, Jack Kenny, Sarah Lang, Mia Morrissey, Karl Richmond, and Sunny S. Walia, along with Michael Shanks as director and writer.
When the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, it received rave reviews, with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed’s critic Nick Schager calling it a grotesque crowd pleasure, sure to satisfy audiences with its layered portrayal of a couple’s unraveling, along with its bone-chilling horror scenes.
“Together has its fair share of bone-chilling sights (highlighted by a nightmare involving Tim’s ghoulishly smiling dead mother) and manages to make most of them simultaneously unnerving and ridiculous,” Schager wrote. “Together is the rare horror-comedy that doesn’t let the latter negate the former, and it follows through on its premise with crazed confidence.”
In an interview with Deadline, Brie and Franco discussed how this project landed in their laps and what led to their decision to do the film.
“We’ve been approached to act in many different projects together, [but] we’re very selective,” Franco said. “This one felt right; not only was the script incredible, but our characters have been together over a decade, our relationship felt like it could lend itself in a nice way.”
Although the couple feared the intensity of this film affecting their relationship, they decided to go for it anyway.
“We joked this either ends in divorce or we’re more co-dependent than ever. Luckily it was the latter,” Franco said.
Set to release on Aug. 1, Together promises to show audiences what being in a relationship is really all about.
