Bring Her Back
About this episode
The episode discusses the film 'Bring Her Back', exploring its themes of grief and manipulation within a folk horror context.
Grief turns feral, rituals turn bloody and nobody should watch this one alone. Bring Her Back drags folk horror into the present and bites hard. Bring Her Back unsettled us in a way that crept under the skin and refused to leave. This is not a jump scare merchant or a knowing wink horror. It is dread soaked, body horror heavy and emotionally cruel in exactly the right way. From the off, the film announces itself as something viciously controlled. A pair of recently orphaned siblings are placed into foster care with Laura, a softly spoken grief counsellor whose kindness curdles almost immediately. What follows is a slow tightening of the vice. Laura’s home is calm, ordered and deeply wrong. Her behaviour is precise, manipulative and chillingly plausible. As one of us put it, you feel gaslit alongside the characters . The horror is not just what happens, but how long it takes others to believe something is wrong. The film’s use of Piper’s blindness is handled with rare restraint. There are no cheap perspective tricks, no exploitative visuals. Instead, vulnerability becomes tension. We know something she does not and that knowledge becomes unbearable. When violence arrives, it does…
People in this episode
Hosts: Andrew Davidson, Dave Houghton, David Hall
Topics covered
- folk horror
- grief
- body horror
- manipulation
- ritual
- emotional cruelty
Keywords
- Bring Her Back
- folk horror
- grief
- body horror
- manipulation
- ritual
- emotional cruelty
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