Alison Brie and Dave Franco give a complete new that means to “too near consolation” within the nauseating trailer for Neon’s Collectively, which is certain to cook dinner up summer time scares for horror followers.
Written and directed by Michael Shanks, Collectively made waves at 2025’s Sundance Movie Pageant. The movie stars real-life couple Brie and Franco as fictional couple Millie and Tim, who’ve simply made the massive choice to maneuver to the countryside. However what ought to have been an idyllic, recent begin rapidly devolves right into a physique horror nightmare all about codependency.
Nevertheless, the trailer begins out not with horror, however with marital ennui. Millie and Tim sleep in numerous rooms of their new home. He tells her he loves her, however she simply responds with a flaccid “okay.”
She craves one thing new, some form of reconnection. However in a monkey’s paw transfer, that want will get a narly approach of being granted in Collectively. As proven within the trailer, their lips meld into each other as they kiss. Their eyelashes and eyelids tangle. Millie even takes a buzzsaw to herself and Tim, presumably at a degree the place they’re joined.
As if that weren’t gnarly sufficient, the trailer is chock-full of different disconcerting photos. Millie channels the horror basic The Exorcist with a painful backbend, then levitates and slams in opposition to a door. Tim will get dragged right into a pit by unknown forces. Add a creepy, respiration cave to the combo, together with some video tapes of what seems to be an occult ritual, and we’re in full nightmare territory.
Collectively hits theaters July 30.
