Development and casting

Writer/director Michael Shanks

In February 2024, Dave Franco and Alison Brie joined the cast of the film, with Michael Shanks directing from a screenplay he wrote. 30West, Tango Entertainment and Picturestart produced and financed the film.

Filming

Though the film is set in Washington state, principal photography took place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The film was shot in 21 days. Shanks’s partner, who worked for a sex toy company, supplied free lifelike prop genitalia for use in a scene in which Brie and Franco’s genitalia are stuck together. For a section of the movie Brie and Franco wore a prosthetic that effectively conjoined their arms together for hours on end, resulting in the couple having to use the restroom together.

The conjoining effects involved both prosthetics built by designer Larry Van Duynhoven and computer-generated imagery provided by Framestore. To create the merged version of Tim and Millie who the crew nicknamed “Tillie”, effects supervisor Genevieve Camilleri did composites of Brie and Franco on Nuke to unveil a face that could be identified as an amalgam of the couple. With that as reference, Brie was filmed wearing a wig, a make-up recreation of Franco’s eyebrows, and brown contacts. Afterwards Franco with motion tracking dots in his face was filmed on the same location, and his jaw and lips were digitally composited onto Brie’s face.

#together #bodyhorror #review #spoilers #davefranco #alisonbrie #podcast #australia #horror #movie #death #horrorfilm #splatter #deathscene #blood #gore #scarymovie #horror #completeguidetohorror #horrormovie #scary #creepy #graphic