Name: Bring Her Back
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2025-08-22
Rating: 8
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips

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A brother and sister discover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.

Bring Her Back

Times of India

 ‘Bring Her Back’ isn’t a horror film that goes for cheap scares or sudden jolts. It takes the slower, more unsettling route, letting unease build until you realize you’ve been tense for half the film. Directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, the duo behind ‘Talk to Me,’ this one feels more measured and less flashy. It sits with its mood and trusts you to sit with it too. The fear here isn’t about what jumps out at you—it’s about what quietly settles in. And once it does, it’s hard to shake off.
The story follows Andy (Billy Barratt) and his younger half-sister Piper (Sora Wong), who lose their father and move in with Laura (Sally Hawkins), a foster mother who seems perfect to a fault. She’s warm, attentive, and always in control. But her kindness feels rehearsed, and her rules keep piling up. Living in the house is Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), a boy who hardly speaks, moving through the place like a shadow. Slowly, Andy begins to see that Laura’s affection comes at a cost, and being the “protective” older brother won’t be enough to keep Piper safe. Andy finally decides to leave the house when Laura tightens her grip on Piper. Parallel to this runs another thread—the story of Cathy, Laura’s deceased daughter, whose body has been eerily preserved in the outhouse, kept intact with ice.
The direction follows a clean and restrained approach focussing on the characters and the story. The camera lingers, trapping characters in corners and hallways until the house itself feels suffocating. Sound design does most of the heavy lifting—every creak, thud, or breath feels loaded. Piper, who is partially blind, adds another layer of tension—you find yourself worrying for her in the smallest moments, which is exactly where the film draws its power. Piper’s perspective is used with care. Her disability isn’t a gimmick, but it shifts how you watch—you become alert to what she might not see, and that keeps you on edge.
Sally Hawkins anchors the film with a performance that’s both gentle and unnerving. Laura never comes across as a plain villain. She’s soft-spoken, even tender, but a smile that lingers too long or a compliment that sounds like a warning makes her unsettling. Hawkins plays her with precision, never overplaying the menace. Billy Barratt brings quiet strength to Andy, a boy trying to be braver than he feels. Sora Wong gives Piper resilience beyond the usual “vulnerable child” role, while Jonah Wren Phillips, as Oliver, creates horror just by his mere presence. Together, the actors make the world of the film feel real and inhabited.
In the end, what makes the film work is not its scares but the way it creeps under your skin. The story doesn’t shout; it lingers, leaving you uneasy long after the credits roll. It’s a reminder that horror doesn’t always need noise—sometimes silence is far more haunting. What stays with you is not the shock of what happens, but the quiet ache of how it happens. That’s what gives the film its lasting chill. It’s slow, grim, and carried by performances that stay with you. It leaves you realizing that the scariest monsters aren’t always in the dark—sometimes they’re the ones who claim to care for you.

The Indian Express

Who would have thought you could have your heart stopped and wrenched at the same time? And who better than to do it, oozing “love” and not only in how she addresses everyone as that, than Sally Hawkins?

That woman with one of the kindest, crinkliest eyes in Hollywood (pardon for repeating this) is a foster mom from (personal) hell in Bring Her Back. With three children put in her care, you live through this taut film in horror as much for them as for her.

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear,” wrote CS Lewis. Both co-exist in ample measures in the second feature by the Philippou brothers, after their impressive hit Talk To Me, with the beating heart of Bring Her Back being a grieving mother’s sorrow and guilt.
That mother is Laura (Hawkins), who lives in a slightly shabby house out in the woods. Given her decades of work as a counsellor with the social services, no checks are made when newly orphaned Andy (Barratt) and stepsister Piper (Wong), who is visually impaired, are assigned to her foster care.
However, from the moment Andy (three months short of 18) drives Piper and himself to Laura’s door, it is clear that not all is right with her. The oddest of all is Oliver (Phillips), who Laura says also came to her after losing his family. Meanwhile, signs of the dead are all around, including those of Laura’s daughter Cathy, who drowned, and a dog whom Laura has had stuffed, and encourages Piper to touch.
The beauty of Bring Her Back and Hawkins is that even when you think you know Laura, you don’t know her. She can be incredibly warm and perceptive, capable of genuine care, and bring comfort to Piper (especially) and Andy. At the same time, she can be scheming in petty ways.

The drawback is that while the film pretends to hold surprises, it is pretty transparent in what it is building to here, with Laura even watching on loop old, grainy recordings of cult practices on VHS. Oliver’s strangeness, his muteness, his abuse at Laura’s hands, the white circle around the house that he dare not cross, are all steps towards what can only be one goal.
But Bring Her Back works, and if Hawkins ranks high up there, it is also kudos to its three young actors. Barratt as the brother standing between her sister and the world is a strong and vulnerable boy in the ilk of other golden-haired heroes. Wong, who is visually impaired in real life and making her debut, is right in step with Barratt as his loving and dependent, but spunky, sister. If Piper doesn’t feel her world is limited, it is because Andy is holding the doors open for her.

BRING HER BACK | Official Trailer | Releasing Exclusively In Cinemas August 22

Bring Her Back | Official Trailer 2 HD | A24

A Golden Globe Award winner, Sally Hawkins is an English actress of Irish descent. A graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she started her career with theater performances. Her major film role came with the 2008 film Happy Go Lucky, a movie that won her several awards including the Golden Globe. She has also appeared in the screen adaptations of classics like Jane Eyre and Great Expectations. Her performance in several BBC shows have earned her critical acclaim.

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