Bring Her Back [Movie Review]

Bring Her Back [Movie Review] | The movie pops up and since I was free, I decided to give this one a go. 

The poster intrigues me. 

SYNOPSIS

Bring Her Back (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, Mischa Heywood & Sally Hawkins
• Director: Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou
• Producer: Samantha Jennings & Kristina Ceyton
• Production Company: Causeway Films, Salmira Productions, South Australian Film Corporation & Blue Bear

• Distributed by: Stage 6 Films  & A24

• Release date: May 30, 2025

• Running time: 104 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: Australia
• Language: English
• IMDb: 7.2/ 10
• Tomatometer: 89%
• Metascore: 75%
• Sora Wong landed the role after her mom saw a Facebook casting call — despite having no acting experience and being visually impaired since birth. 
• Filming concluded after 41 days.

After their father's sudden death, 17-year-old Andy and his blind step-sister Piper are sent to live with Laura, an eccentric ex-counselor with a flair for the unsettling. She already fosters Oliver, a mute boy with an eerie presence. Laura’s own daughter, Cathy, drowned in the backyard pool, and Laura’s grief seems to have warped into obsession.

Laura clearly favors Piper and treats Andy with hostility. When Andy tells her and his social worker Wendy that he wants custody of Piper once he turns 18, Laura starts playing mind games to make him doubt himself. Her behavior grows stranger such as stealing a lock of hair from Andy’s father’s corpse and whispering about souls lingering in dead bodies. Andy, haunted by the memory of his abusive father, begins unraveling.

Then there’s Oliver who chews on knives, convulses when taken outside the property line, and eerily mutters, “help me.” Turns out, Oliver is no ordinary child. He’s possessed by a demon named Tari, the result of Laura’s DIY resurrection ritual inspired by an old Russian occult VHS. He wants to bring Cathy back from the dead  and that's why she needs Piper to die the same way Cathy did to make it happen.

As Andy starts connecting the dots, Laura grows more unhinged. She assaults Piper, framing Andy, and sets her plan in motion. Meanwhile, Oliver or rather, Tari,  becomes hungrier, biting Laura and destroying the house.

Andy discovers that Oliver is actually a missing child named Connor Bird. He and Wendy race to save Piper, but Laura gets to them first and she runs them down with her car. Wendy dies, and Laura finishes Andy off by drowning him.

How far would a grieving mother go to bring her child back? Can Piper's death really bring Cathy back?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• A sweet twist of a story.
• Wonderful cast. 

What I Don't Like:

• None I would say.

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I don't mind watching it again.

Overall: 4.3/ 5.0

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