Dave Franco and Alison Brie have made the midnight movie of the year. At January’s Sundance Film Festival, no selection was more raucously received than Together, a body-horror thriller about a relationship that gives new meaning to the term co-dependent.

The married actors tell IndieWire why there was no downside to playing a troubled couple on screen and explain how a Cronenberg deep dive during the pandemic paved the way for their foray into body horror.

The perils of the dating scene are vast, but there are horrors in long-term relationships too. With intimacy and commitment, there can also come codependency and even convergence. “Together,” written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks in his feature debut,