Together

Despite the ever-growing popularity of horror films, I can honestly say Ive really tired of half-baked releases that just dont cut it, and thats very much the case with this debut feature from writer-director Michael Shanks. By half-baked, Im referring to pictures that arent especially scary, fall into patterns of predictable plot developments, routinely incorporate vague, unexplained elements, and fail woefully in their attempts at trying to offer audiences something more in terms of meaningful content, themes or insights. Regrettably, this combination of underwhelming qualities often results in meandering narratives that make little sense and dont deliver on their hoped-for entertainment and visionary promises. Its particularly disappoint...

With their now largely sexless relationship straining at the seams,  aspiring musician Tim (Dave Franco) and partner Millie (Alison Brie) move to a remote rural house near the school where she is to teach. The pair go for a country walk and during a sudden storm fall into what they think is a cavern, complete with old pews and a rather curious mural. Luckily there is a pool there so they dont suffer from thirst before awakening in the morning and clambering out. No harm done, it appears, until poor old Tim goes to take a shower and finds he is no longer master of his own movements. He bounces around that shower cubicle like something magnetic is manipulating him. Thats just the start of this magnetism though, and pretty swiftly the pair are...