BRING HER BACK

Name: BRING HER BACK
Item: BRING HER BACK
Author: Review

"Grief Causes Occult Psychosis"

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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What You Need To Know:

BRING HER BACK is an excessively gory, horrifically emotional Australian horror movie. A vulnerable blind girl and her stepbrother suddenly find themselves orphans. They are sent to live with a foster mother, Laura, who’s also a counselor. At Laura’s house in the woods, they meet another foster boy, Oliver. They find him standing in the drained swimming pool. Oliver is unsettling. According to Laura, Oliver requires special care. He’s been selectively mute since Laura’s blind daughter, Cathy, died. Things don’t seem quite right. In fact, Laura may not have the best intentions. Water imagery and rising tensions provide the backdrop for a horrific series of events. BRING HER BACK is the stuff of every parent’s worst nightmares.

BRING HER BACK is horrifically, violent depiction of grief. A mother’s grief has turned into a pursuit of sick occult practices. In addition to gross occult rituals, BRING HER BACK has extremely excessive gore and violence. It includes cannibalism, abuse of children, body mutilation, psychological manipulation, desecration of the dead, lots of strong foul language, and many gross images. BRING HER BACK is sick and abhorrent.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong occult worldview involving a case of demon possession and occult, cannibalistic rituals where a grief-stricken foster mother/counselor takes advantage of newly orphaned minors to manipulate a nefarious and gruesome scheme that puts them in grave danger, woman uses witchcraft as manipulation and forcing a child to succumb to witchcraft to lose agency of their body, situations and events are an emotional and tragic result of terrible grief that causes people to do unspeakable and insane things (excessively horrific and disturbing), with some moral elements where caretaking stepbrother guides his vulnerable blind sister and tries to keep her safe from the world’s realities, but he ultimately fails though the girl ironically escapes and is rescued, the blind sister has to realize what’s happening to survive, but movie includes terrible admissions about the ugliness of this world and beyond;

Foul Language:

41 obscenities (including 35 “f” words), five profanities, someone is shown urinating, vomit shown;

Violence:

Extreme violence, excessive gore, and blood often involving children or minors, cannibalism and murder are part of the villain’s occult rituals, murder, death, dead bodies, mutilation of dead bodies, zombie-like attacks with biting of people and objects including a knife, countertop and smashing windows with hands, demon possessed character cuts tongue and mouth when he starts eating a knife, people are hit with a vehicle, drowning, hanging, shoving, hitting, face hitting, bloody wounds, teeth being chewed out of mouth, vomiting blood, struggling, discussion of a child being beaten;

Sex:

No sex scenes, but a corpse is kissed;

Nudity:

Full male nudity of a corpse including genitals shown multiple times, partial nudity of male child and minor;

Alcohol Use:

A scene with a drinking party with shots of alcohol and excessive alcohol with minors;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Excessive lying, deceit, psychological manipulation and abuse of children/minors, kidnapping in more than one case, abuse of children by grief-stricken psychopath, several bad role models, a strong sense of distrust for the foster system and hospitals is inherent to the plot, abuse of a corpse.

More Detail:

BRING HER BACK is an excessively gory and horrifically emotional Australian horror movie about a vulnerable blind girl, Piper, and her stepbrother, Andy, who find themselves suddenly orphans sent to live with a foster mother who may not have the best of intentions. Water imagery and rising tension from their uncertain and helpless situation are the backdrop for a horrific series of events that are the stuff of every parent’s worst nightmare.

With a very strong occult worldview, BRING HER BACK is a horrifically emotional and violent depiction of how far grief will push someone even to a sick occult practice. MOVIEGUIDE® cannot recommend this movie due to excessive gore, violence, psychological manipulation and abuse of minors, desecration of the dead, foul language, gross images, and occult practice.

Piper is a young partially blind girl. Her stepbrother, Andy, takes care of her. He points out things she can’t see and explaining the world around them, often in a more positive light. When their father doesn’t answer the bathroom door, Piper panics and calls for Andy. Andy opens the locked door with a knife and finds his fathers naked body fallen out of the shower with blood and vomit. Piper yells and tries to wake him.

Andy stares in shock as the body is wheeled out on a gurney, and Piper gives a statement to a police officer saying that he had just finished chemo and was supposed to be better. Later, they are sitting in the friendly social worker’s office, Wendy. Piper clarifies that she is blind, only seeing shapes and light. Wendy tells them that Piper will be going with an amazing foster mother, Laura. Andy is to be put into a supervised unit. The siblings both protest, as Andy looks after Piper, and they will not be split up. Wendy says that Andy may apply for guardianship in 3 months when he turns 18. Looking at Andy, Wendy says Laura has had issues with troubled kids in the past. Piper asks for clarification using their honesty code-word “grapefruit.” He tells her that he had gotten into trouble when he was younger and that it has not been a problem for ages. He asks Wendy if he can talk to Laura and tell her they will not be split up. Wendy asks if Laura agrees, can he behave himself for 3 months? He nods.

Andy and Piper drive to Laura’s house in the woods. They open the door, and Laura invites them in yelling from the kitchen with loud music playing. Laura is warm and inviting and takes a picture with them. She her taxidermy dog, Pom Pom. She admits that she is a “weirdo.” Laura asks Piper where her cane is. Piper admits that she doesn’t like using it as people treat her differently. Laura understands, lightheartedly saying her nan would tell them to “f— off.”

Andy notices the living room rug has a secured edge and asks if that is for Piper. Laura says its for her daughter, who passed away – drowned in the pool. Laura gets a phone call from Wendy, and Andy and Piper open the back door, accidentally letting the cat out. Andy goes to look for the cat. He hears a meow from a drained pool and sees a boy with a buzz cut standing at the bottom. The cat is scratching and yelling as the boy stares unsettlingly. Laura rushes out, telling Oliver to give her the cat back.

Inside, Laura introduces Ollie to his new brother and sister. She explains that he lost his family just like they did, and he needs special care. Ollie has been selectively mute since they lost Cathy. Piper asks Andy what he looks like. He lies and says he’s cute and is smiling at her. Laura lies and says he has thick curly, red hair.

Piper stays in Cathy’s old bedroom, while Andy gets a closet with a door that doesn’t quite shut. Laura enters and wants to know who he’s texting and what they’re discussing. She insists that he doesn’t have to be so defensive and that she’s a counselor who people pay to listen. He hears Piper bang on the wall as a test to see if they can hear each other. When he turns around, Laura is going through his phone. Upset after reading his texts to a friend about how weird Oliver is, she storms off.

They try to settle, but something is not right. Andy struggles with the trauma of his dad’s death. Andy can’t sleep and sees some strange things in the night. It only gets stranger and more horrific, but there is no one who will listen to him.

BRING HER BACK is a horrifically emotional and violent depiction of grief. A mother’s grief has turned into a pursuit of sick occult practices. In addition to gross occult rituals, BRING HER BACK has extremely excessive gore and violence. It includes cannibalism, abuse of children, body mutilation, psychological manipulation, desecration of the dead, lots of strong foul language, and gross images. BRING HER BACK is sick and abhorrent.

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