Substitution : Bring Her Back

Deeply shocking, deeply upsetting, and one of my favorites of 2025 so far.

The film has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen.

...turns familiar trauma-based horror into a traumatic experience. To sit through Bring Her Back is to endure it.

...quite the wild ride and shows the pair still have plenty of spooky tricks up their bloody sleeves.

The feel-bad movie of the year, "Bring Her Back" is so unapologetically disturbing that I wonder how a more casual moviegoer might react to it ... if they're brave enough to see it at all.

...a dark, emotional powerhouse of an experience, dealing with grief while using water as a murderous metaphor.