2025 has been a fantastic year for horror movies, and it looks like this great run will go into August. It’s been roughly eight months into the year, and critics and audiences have raved over many terrifying genre-bending horror films, includingCompanion,The Monkey,28 Years Later,andSinners.
Since there are about four months left in 2025, audiences still have plenty of other exciting new horror movies to look forward to. Now that it’s the end of July, audiences have another acclaimed horror film to watch in the theaters, andit just might be the best horror movie of the year.
Thisbody horror filmby a new writer-director boastsa near-perfect 98% rating from criticsonRotten Tomatoes, garnering it plenty of hype and prestige as a must-see scary movie.
Together Is Now Out In Theaters: Why It’s One Of The Year’s Best Horror Movies
Together Is An Unforgettable Body Horror-Comedy That Demands To Be Seen
Distributed by the hit indie studio Neon, writer-director Michael Shanks’Togethergarnered plenty of attention withreal-life married celebrities,Alison Brie and Dave Franco,playing the film’s two lead roles.
At the same time,Neon has built up quite a reputationas a successful indie studio, rivaling the likes of A24 by delivering multiple Palme d’Or-winning films likeParasite,Anora,Titane,Anatomy of a Fall, andTriangle of Sadness. It has been especially successful with horror movies likeLonglegs,The Monkey, andImmaculate.
However,2025’sTogetherbecame even more highly anticipated following its reception in January after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.Togetherhas since been deemed “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critical consensus calling it a “body horror that’s as emotionally sticky as it is memorably gnarly,” featuring both Brie and Franco “at the top of their game.”
Collider’s Ross Bonaime describedTogetheras a “wild horror romance” in which “Brie and Franco go completely all-in with a gleefully strange concept,” with Shanks' screenplay presenting “a great blend of unrelenting horror and laughably uncomfortable moments.”
This new film merges marital dysfunction and grotesque body horroras the film’s main couple find their bodies starting to fuse together. It’s a stomach-churning metaphor about the terrors of codependence, featuring plenty of unforgettable images of bodies contorting and blending, and limbs getting cut into.
Like withLonglegs,Neon has really sold the scariness ofTogetherthrough its marketing campaign. This includes a video monitoring audiences' eyes to show how shocked and terrified they were while watching a reported 86% ofTogether. Using special technology to measure pupil dilation, the video shows select snippets from some of the movie’s most intense scenes.
Overall, the outstanding reviews and frightening marketing forTogetherhave made it an intriguing horror film, to say the least. There’s little reason why audiences, particularly horror fans, shouldn’t go out and see what could be the best horror film of 2025.
