After the success of their 2023 indie horror film Talk to Me, Australian YouTubers-turned-directors Danny and Michael Philippou are back with another spine-chiller: Bring Her Back, opening in theaters this weekend.
Written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman, Bring Her Back stars two-time Oscar nominated actor Sally Hawkins as the creepy new foster mother to siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong). The kids move in to their new mother’s secluded home, where they uncover a “terrifying ritual.” Sounds bad!
In 2023, Talk To Me managed to become A24’s highest-grossing horror movie in the U.S., surpassing Hereditary, and taking home over $91.9 million at the worldwide box office. So it’s no wonder that the studio was happy to order up another horror movie from the Philippou brothers. Review are good so far, so here’s what to know about where to watch the watch the Bring Her Back movie, and when we expect to be able to watch the Bring Her Back movie on streaming.
Bring Her Back will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in North America in theaters on Friday, May 30. (The movie opened in Australia theaters on May 29.) You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Bring Her Back movie is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
Bring Her Back is not streaming on Netflix and likely will not be on Netflix in the U.S. any time soon, due to the fact that the film is an A24 release, and the 2023 deal between A24 and Warner Bros. Discovery, brings all A24’s previous and upcoming theatrical releases to the Warner Bros. streaming service Max. (Formerly known as, and soon to once again be known as, HBO Max.) If you want to watch Bring Her Back movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Max.
If you’re new to Max, you can sign up for as low as $9.99/month with ads, but an ad-free subscription will cost $16.99/month.
If you want to stream even more and save a few bucks a month while you’re at it, we recommend subscribing to one of the discounted Disney+ Bundles with Hulu and Max. With ads, the bundle costs $16.99/month and without ads, $29.99/month.
Bring Her Back is not yet streaming on Max. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see Bring Her Back streaming on Max eventually—thanks to the A24 and Warner Bros. deal—but we’re not sure when.
The A24 deal is a “Pay-1 deal,” which means A24 movies will start streaming on Max in the “Pay 1 window,” meaning that Max will be the first “TV channel” to pay for the rights to Friendship, after the film has been released on digital and home media. One recent A24 title, Babygirl, began streaming on Max on April 25, about four months after its release in theaters, and about three months after its release on digital.
If Bring Her Back follows a similar release strategy, you might see Bring Her Back on digital in about a month, around late June or early July 2025, and streaming on Max in about four months, around late September or early October 2025. Just in time for spooky season!
This is all speculation. The A24 digital and streaming releases have varied by title. If you want to watch Bring Her Back right away, you can catch the movie in U.S. theaters on Friday.