This new horror movie even impressed Stephen King: “Scary as hell”
The author of legendary horror stories such as ‘Carrie’ and ‘The Shining’, King has taken to social media to praise a “wonderfully gruesome” new movie.
Horror icon Stephen King has given an emphatic thumbs-up to a new big-screen release in the genre, lauding the movie as “scary as hell”.
A novelist whose works include Carrie, The Shining and It - horror favorites that have all been adapted to film - King took to social media this week to praise Danny and Michael Philippou’s Bring Her Back.
“Wonderfully gruesome”
Writing on his Bluesky profile on Wednesday, King described the movie as “wonderfully gruesome”, adding that it is “thoughtful, textured, and scary as hell.”
The 77-year-old’s brief review was later shared on Instagram by Bring Her Back distributor A24, under the caption: “The King has spoken.”
What is Bring Her Back about?
Directed by the Philippou brothers, and written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman, Bring Her Back stars Billy Barrat and Sora Wong as two siblings who “uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother”, A24 says.
The film’s cast also includes Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton and two-time Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins.
Watch the trailer to Bring Her Back:
“Horrific perfection”
Alongside King, numerous film journalists have offered a positive assessment of Bring Her Back, which was released in U.S. movie theaters on May 30.
“Bring Her Back is not the kind of horror movie that promises grue and doesn’t deliver, and when the carnage comes, it is fulsome, fleshy and wet," writes the Washington Post’s Ty Burr.
Meanwhile, Slant magazine’s Rocco T. Thompson says the movie “has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen."
The Chicago Reader’s Rob Silverman Ascher concludes: “Bring Her Back is horrific perfection.”
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