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Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping Bring Her Back into the ol’ VCR.

Okay, so here’s the deal: 

I really, really want to talk about Bring Her Back today, but I also know that I was fortunate to catch an early screening last night, so I don’t want to spoil it for everyone. 

So, I’ve decided to give you a quick review that I’m keeping as spoiler-free as possible. 

Then, whenever the movie hits theaters, I’ll give you a more in-depth breakdown because this is one I want to pick apart (in a good way). 

Bring Her Back is one of my favorite movies of the year, but let me be clear—this movie isn’t for the faint of heart (or stomach). 

It’s like Talk to Me on steroids. 

Really. 

I can’t even begin to CW/TW all of the gore in here because I wouldn’t know where to start, but I can give you the following CW/TWs: 

Child ab*s*, gaslighting, violence toward children, animal gore, insinuated violence toward animals, death, grief, child death, and all like topics 

One criticism I’ve seen from a couple of early reviews is that the Philippou brothers are, once again, choosing grief as the basis for the film. 

But the portrayal of grief in Talk to Me is much different than that in Bring Her Back. 

We’ll dive a lot more into this in my second review, but grieving an abuser is far different than other types of grief, in my opinion (as someone who has experienced it twice). 

Do I think Bring Her Back is perfect?

No, but I think there’s a lot of really great symbolism for us to dissect. 

I know that this probably isn’t the review that all of you were looking for, but I just can’t bring myself to spoil this truly disturbing (yet somehow touching?) depiction of grief. 

Emphasis on disturbing. 

(The guy sitting next to me whispered, “God fucking damnit” to himself no less than four times).