Stick and twist

Mid-1990s girl power balladry provides a disconcertingly cheerful yet creepily effective soundtrack to stomach-churning body horror in Together.

- with DAMON SMITH

Starring real-life married couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco, writer-director Michael Shanks' trippy debut feature heads into the woods for an increasingly nasty surprise. It's down to a subterranean pool of water that, when drunk, irresistibly pulls two people towards each other until their bodies physically fuse into one hideously gnarled organism.