Bring Her Back (2025) poster
2025 · horror · supernatural

Bring Her Back

Directed by Michael Philippou, Danny Philippou1h 44m2025
ElsewhereIMDb7.1123kRT89%Metacritic75
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.

Our read · Bring Her Back (2025) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want folk horror dread with creeping wrongness and Talk to Me-level intensity.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 18attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild perilgraphic violencebody horrorgorejump scares

Skip it tonightBody horror, child peril, or grief-heavy openings will wreck your night.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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