Reconnecting with the dead is a universal dream that Danny and Michael Philippou have twice imagined as an unholy nightmare.

The first time was with their 2022 breakout Talk to Me and now with Bring Her Back. For the follow-up to their auspicious debut, hitting theaters May 30, the Australian twins once again fixate on young people’s grief over the loss of their parents.

However, their latest is also concerned with the flip side of that equation, focusing on a foster mother, Linda (Sally Hawkins), who takes in two orphaned children—17-year-old Andy (Billy Barratt) and his semi-blind stepsister Piper (newcomer Sora Wong)—while coping with the recent death of her biological daughter.

Sorrow is ever-present in the Philippous’ cinema, and it begets supernatural chaos and madness of a star

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