The couple hopped on Zoom for a joint interview with their filmmaker Michael Shanks to discuss their Sundance genre film, the physically demanding shoot and why codependency can be so scary.

Although Alison Brie and husband Dave Franco have shared the screen in the past, they truly sink into each other with some skin-crawling, albeit heartfelt and hilarious performances in writer-director Michael Shanks’ feature debut,

Dave Franco and Alison Brie join the IndieWire Studio at Sundance to talk Michael Shanks' body horror relationship thriller, 'Together.'

Move over, The Substance, there's another hot new body horror in town! One of my favorite 2025 Sundance Film Festival premieres is this feature directorial debut called Together from the Midnight section of the line-up this year.

Michael Shanks' debut film mashes up (quite literally) heartfelt relationship drama and icky body horror, to crowd-pleasing (and -screaming) effect.

Franco was recently in A24’s “Love Lies Bleeding” with Kristen Stewart, which premiered at Sundance in 2024. He also appears in “Bubble & Squeak,” an off-beat comedy that appeared in the 2025 edition of Sundance, co-starring alongside Sarah Goldberg and Matt Berry.

Michael Shanks Logline: A dysfunctional couple makes a big move away from the city to a more isolated existence. As they lose contact with home, friends, and their sense of self beyond their troubled dynamic,

A romantic relationship is a union, and Together takes that idea to its gonzo extreme. A playfully gory Cronenbergian comedy that picks up where The Substance left off, Michael Shanks’ directorial debut mines a couple’s stresses and strains for gruesome outrageousness that lets audiences in on the joke without resorting to wink-wink self-consciousness.