Rent Bring Her Back (2025)

Slow Burn, Deep Wounds - Bring Her Back review by griggs

Gory, gruesome, and gripping. Bring Her Back doesn’t just shock—it creeps under the skin and stays there. What begins as a slow burn is anything but dull; the gradual buil gives the characters and themes space to develop, letting grief, guilt, and suppressed madness unfold at the their own unnerving pace. It’s a film that trusts it audience to sit with discomfort—and earns that trust handsomely.

Sally Hawkins is extraordinary—tight-wound, haunted, and utterly convincing—but debutant Sora Wong is the revelation. She brings quiet intensity to the screen, as if holding back a storm, making her every movement feel charged.

Though the setup may sound familiar, the film charts its course with real confidence. It’s sharply written, grimly inventive, and never afraid to go all the way once it hits its stride. Among this year’s releases few have made such a mess—or such a mark. Bring Her Back is hard to forget, and harder still to shake-off.

Very Gory and Gruesome Australian Occult Horror - Bring Her Back review by PV

The same Philippou brother director team and same co-writer Bill Hinzman that made 2022's TALK TO ME so it again with an effective and commercial horror movie from Down Under. British actress Sally Hawkins is not usually a favourite of mine but here she nails it, incl the mild Aussie accent.

The other actors nail it too, those playing the teenage boy and his blind half-sister - very clever actually how her blindness is woven into the plot, as of course she cannot see so believes what she is told...

Glad to see some movies not manblaming all the time too, and instead focusing on female violence and what could be called 'psychowomen' like Kathy Bates in MISERY or TV drama BABY REINDEER.

It is very gory and gruesome in parts. Maybe OTT, but the violence is set up with 'plants' earlier in the plot for foreshadow later events - though I am not entirely sure I believe what happens to characters or the story's origins. But hey, it's a movie, so fiction. Roll with it...

Best not think too much about the plot holes or ask questions like 'Why/How could police/social services not know...?" etc.

It made me think of other films with spooking kids, of course THE INNOCENTS (1961) based on THE TURN OF THE SCREW, and imitators like THE OTHERS (2001), as well as more recent films like Dutch-Danish SPEAK NO EVIL (2022). Kids are creepy, basically!

This is a film that's stay with you like a bad smell. 4 stars

Not Enjoyable - Bring Her Back review by KB

I didn't enjoy this film at all .I knew within the first few minutes that this would be the case .Not really scary just unpleasant and not at all believable . The two young characters acting is decent but otherwise there are no other redeeming features .The irritating main female lead is completely far fetched & her dialogue is not convincing at all.