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'Bring Her Back' trailer teases Sally Hawkins' dark secret
- In the 2025 film Bring Her Back, siblings Andy and Piper enter the foster home of Laura, portrayed by Sally Hawkins, after their father suddenly dies at their family cabin in the woods.
- Their father’s agonizing and sudden death leads social services to place them with Laura, a former social worker whose adoption request for Piper alone links to her deceased blind daughter.
- Laura reveals disturbing intentions as she conducts a cryptic ritual to restore her daughter’s spirit, treating the children manipulatively while imprisoning a mute boy named Oliver within the home.
- Sally Hawkins delivers a fierce, unsettling performance, shifting between malevolence and desperation, while key scenes portray gruesome bodily trauma and haunt Andy’s protective struggles.
- The film, opening May 30, 2025, functions as a slow-paced grief study that explores the darkness of maternal love and its consequences, culminating in a tragic and haunting resolution.
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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Gaslights Kids & Channels Grief Into Terror In The Philippous’ Trauma-Soaked Sophomore Feature
Danny and Michael Philippou’s sophomore feature is another grief-driven horror that doubles down on the darkness with help from Sally Hawkins and a talented young ensemble. In Bring Her Back, Billy Barratt and Sora Wong play Andy and Piper, two siblings who are sent to live with a seemingly warm foster mother, Laura (Hawkins), after […]
‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Is a Haunted Mother in Philippou Brothers’ Disturbing and Melancholic Follow-Up to ‘Talk to Me’
In the Sally Hawkins-starring 'Bring Her Back,' Danny and Michael Philippou explore how grief drives people to behave in unimaginable ways.
Sally Hawkins Saves 'Bring Her Back' From Being A Little Too Familiar
A24It’s an ordinary day for Andy (Billy Barratt), and his younger step-sister, Piper (Sora Wong). Piper, who was born visually impaired, approaches a group of girls at their school bus stop and, when the girls snicker at her disability behind her back, Andy lies to her: they liked her, he says with a grim smile that Piper can’t see. Piper, for whom Andy is her whole world, believes him, and they head home. But what they find at home turns their …
Bring Her Back Review
Bring Her Back opens in theaters Friday, May 30.Grief-stricken horror has enjoyed a few peaks over the last decade – Ari Aster’s Hereditary chief among them. In the latest addition to that subgenre, Bring Her Back, Aster’s A24 cohorts Danny and Michael Philippou test the limits of what a mother is willing to do in order to spend more time with her deceased child. It’s the follow-up to their successful debut, Talk to Me – that movie was about a r…
‘Bring Her Back’ Review: Sally Hawkins Is Psychotically Good in Yet Another Horror Movie About Grief
"Talk to Me" directors Danny and Michael Philippou deliver a conceptually half-baked horror movie about a dangerously unwell foster mother's ritual to resurrect her dead child.
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