After the traumatic loss of their father, partially-sighted Piper and her caring older stepbrother Andy find themselves in the care of gregarious but volatile foster mum Laura (a career-best Sally Hawkins, flipping her signature kindly charm on its head to disquieting effect).
Having met the mute, distressingly sheltered Ollie, who is also in Laura’s care, Andy soon realises that she is dangerously consumed by the grief of her late daughter Cathy, who was also blind. As it becomes apparent that Piper is now a surrogate for the beloved child she lost, the increasingly ostracised Andy becomes terrifyingly concerned about her safety around Laura, as Laura reveals the horrifying lengths she will go to to Bring Her Back…
An affecting genre allegory of the pervasive grip of grief and trauma fronted by the unparalleled Sally Hawkins, Bring Her Back is also a unflinching grisly vision in horror cinema from modern masters Danny and Michael Philippou, adding to their fearlessly nightmarish possession repertoire in the wake of their blood chilling debut feature Talk to Me.