"Ever feel that full body thirst for another!?" Amanda the Jedi, Letterboxd (2025)

Millie und Tim sind seit vielen Jahren ein Paar. Als sie aufs Land ziehen, weil Millie dort einen Job als Lehrerin anfängt, stellt sich ihnen die Frage, wie es in ihrer Beziehung weitergehen soll: Sind sie nur noch aus Gewohnheit zusammen? Wollen sie heiraten oder sich lieber trennen? Dann jedoch löst ein übernatürlicher Vorfall einen physischen Veränderungsprozess aus, der nicht nur ihre Körper und ihre Beziehung transformiert, sondern bald auch ihre gesamte Existenz infrage stellt.

"Miraculously, TOGETHER balances on the tonal tightrope between true body-horror movie and wry rom-com, delivering a terrifically goopy thriller on the perils of codependent relationships that's equal parts funny, surprisingly moving, and flat-out gross." Hoai-Tran Bui, Inverse (2025)

"With TOGETHER, writer/director Michael Shanks has made a debut feature centered on a perfect metaphor to unite the body-horror and troubled-relationship genres. Following up several shorts including the award-winning "Rebooted", he opens with an eerie bit of foreshadowing, follows up quickly with a very awkward proposal, and then inexorably binds his codependent couple with a supernatural influence, to fleshy and freaky results. Married in real life, Brie and Franco bring plenty of lived-in chemistry – though not, one hopes, any autobiographical inspiration – to their roles. We can truly feel both the tainted love and the growing tensions between them, which means that we also feel, in a more visceral manner, the physical misfortunes that befall them. Having seriously roused the crowd at Sundance, TOGETHER makes its Canadian premiere to delightfully disgust the Fantasia audience with its mix of cinematic smarts and serious gross-outs." Michael Gingold, Fantasia Film Festival 2025

"This happened to me and my girlfriend last year but we didn’t wanna say anything!" Framesofnick, Letterboxd (2025)