Together
NZ release: 31 July 2025
Horror, violence, sex scenes, and offensive language Rated on: 28 July 2025
What’s it about?
After moving to the countryside, a supernatural encounter starts to transform a couple's love, their lives, and their flesh.
The facts
- Directed by Michael Shanks
- Starring Dave Franco, Alison Brie
- English language
- Runtime: 102 minutes
Why did it get this rating?
This film was classified by Te Mana Whakaatu, Classification Office. You can find out more about classification process and ratings here.
Horror
The film deals with psychological, supernatural, and body horror with plenty of jump scares. The body horror includes:
- A character finds her hair crawling into another’s open mouth, choking him.
- Body parts fuse together, including eyelashes, pupils, limbs, bones, and sinews.
- Bodies contort unnaturally, straining towards the other. Two characters have to cut their fused limbs apart with a power saw.
- Characters become stuck together during sex, the man’s penis is shown as his partner tries to get it out of her.
Violence
A grotesque creature menaces a man and in self-defence he slices its fingers and stabs its neck. A character cuts open a woman’s arm, blood swells and spills from the wound.
Sex scenes
The couple have sex in a toilet stall. While she straddles him and they’re both fully clothed, we do see close-up detail of his penis when she pushes him away. There are some references to sex through the film.
Content that may disturb
There is a brief scene where a character tries to self-sacrifice by hold a knife against his neck but this attempt is aborted.
Offensive language
There is strong language in the film, with the word ‘f**k’ used as exclamations, or when talking about sex.
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