So…Bring Her Back. Yeah, it’s 8 hours after my screening and I still feel sick . The equivalent of having a knife thrust into your belly and continually twisted back and forth for 90 minutes. The ending of this flick might just leave you feeling cold as a corpse.
It isn’t exactly scary, but it is easily the most disturbing, unsettling, depressing, and uncomfortable horror film in the modern day (thus far). It’s effective and affecting. While it explores familiar horror themes concerning trauma, grief, and cyclical patterns it does so in new and grotesque ways. There are also quite a few threads left hanging and questions that go unanswered by the end, and characters don’t get equal amounts of development.
Bring Her Back isn’t quite as great as Talk To Me for multiple reasons, but it is still an exceptional horror film that succeeds at what it sets out to do: distress and sicken audiences. Bring Her Back dares you to forget about it after you leave the theater. It’s guaranteed you won’t. This one leaves wounds that linger.
4.5 STARS