US Edition'Bring Her Back' trailer teases Sally Hawkins' dark secret
- The 2025 grief-driven horror film Bring Her Back follows siblings Andy and Piper as they move into foster mother Laura's home after their father dies.
- Directors Danny and Michael Philippou crafted this follow-up to Talk to Me to explore grief and trauma through Laura's disturbing attempts to resurrect her dead daughter.
- Laura, portrayed by Sally Hawkins, engages in sinister acts including gaslighting, withholding meals, and performing occult rituals, while Andy becomes aware of her plans to use Piper and mute foster child Oliver in the ceremony.
- The film, distributed by A24 and releasing May 30, 2025, features Billy Barratt as Andy, Sora Wong as partially sighted Piper, and Jonah Wren Phillips as Oliver, with Hawkins delivering a chilling, complex performance.
- Bring Her Back concludes with a tragic resolution that breaks cycles of generational abuse and offers a somber meditation on grief’s hold and influence on human behavior.
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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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