Polygon.com / 31.05.25

How Bring Her Back's most stomach-churning shot happened

Theres a scene in Bring Her Back, the latest A24 horror movie from Talk To Me writer-directors (and twin brothers) Danny and Michael Philippou, thats so violently grotesque, I actually closed my eyes to shut it out. Trying to deny what was going on on the screen just made what was going on in the theater more vivid: The moans and gags of squeamish disgust coming from the audience were almost as loud as the sound effects coming from the movie. When you watch movies for a living or if youre a horror fan whos used to boundary-pushing sequences designed to make an audience squirm its impressive to encounter a scene that hits that hard. But given that it involves a young kid and some particularly intense gore effects, that first wave of Oh noooo pretty quickly gives way to Wait, how did they do that? Polygon sat down with the Philippous over video chat to unpack Bring Her Backs most violent, startling sequence. [Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for Bring Her Back.] In the Bring Her Back scene t...
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