{"id":135226,"date":"2025-05-27T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135226\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:28:09","slug":"bring-her-back-twin-brothers-philippous-on-evil-that-lies-beneath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135226\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bring Her Back&#8217; Twin Brothers Philippous On Evil That Lies Beneath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhat evil lies in down and under? <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSurely a place filled with kangaroos and Men at Work can\u2019t be all this sinister. And the most unsuspecting duo of the deepest abyss of horror are Sundance Film Festival wunderkinds-turned-genre meisters, twin brother filmmmakers Danny and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-philippou\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-philippou\" data-tag=\"michael-philippou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Philippou<\/a>. They\u2019re so vivacious and jolly, you\u2019d never think they could conjure the grossest and most look-away moments in recent horror cinema. These guys make Ari Aster\u2019s Midsommar look like a PG version of Alice in Wonderland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA24 acquired the duo\u2019s possessed teens movie Talk to Me for high-seven figures out of a raucous midnight screening at Sundance in 2023, with that title going on to gross a great $48 million-plus stateside and nearly $92M worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhat\u2019s their secret? More than a child eating his own skin (which you\u2019ll see this Friday in their latest, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bring-her-back\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bring-her-back\" data-tag=\"bring-her-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bring Her Back<\/a>), it\u2019s the duo\u2019s talent for creating deep, sympathetic and resonant characters. Bring Her Back follows two foster siblings, a young girl Piper who is visually impaired (a sublime turn by newcomer Sora Wong) and her older brother Andy (Billy Barratt, also great). With their parents gone from this world, Andy wants oversee of Piper, but the system won\u2019t allow it. They\u2019re put into the care of an older single woman, Laura (two-time Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins), who already has supervision (should we even say that?) over a young boy, Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips). However, he\u2019s torturing himself severely, and well, there\u2019s a pool. What\u2019s wrong with this picture? What\u2019s wrong with this woman? Well, you\u2019ve got to see the movie to find out what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tListen to our convo below with the Philippous and their inspirations, one of them being the 1967 Audrey Hepburn thriller Wait Until Dark in which the actress played a visually impaired woman terrorized by thugs in her apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThere\u2019s a lotta horror in the marketplace, but when it\u2019s great, there\u2019s no cannibalization as we recently saw with both Sinners ($258.8M) and Final Destination Bloodlines ($94.1M and counting). Perhaps Bring Her Back will continue to bring horror cinephiles back to the multiplexes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What evil lies in down and under? 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