Bring Her Back

Bring Her Back (2025)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Release date

2025-05-28

Country

Australia, United States

Production

A24, Causeway Films, South Australian Film Corporation, Salmira Productions, Blue Bear

Genre

Horror

Budget

$15 000 000

Revenue

$39 410 222

Website

https://a24films.com/films/bring-her-back

Director

Michael Philippou, Danny Philippou

Actors

Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Mischa Heywood, Jonah Wren Phillips, Stephen Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Sora Wong, Kathryn Adams, Brian Godfrey, Brendan Bacon
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Scenario

Bill Hinzman, Danny Philippou

Producer

Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings, Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, Salman Al-Rashid, Sam Frohman, Daniel Negret

Operator

Aaron McLisky

Composer

Cornel Wilczek

Artist

Jack Hawthorn

Audition

Nikki Barrett

Editing

Geoff Lamb
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• The film's title translates to "Grief".
• In 2023, brothers Danny and Michael Philippou planned to start creating a film adaptation of the computer game Street Fighter, but they chose to film this movie instead.
• Before being cast as Piper, Sora Vohn had no acting experience whatsoever. Her mother saw an ad on Facebook seeking a girl with visual impairments, and Vohn was born with coloboma (a defect of tissues in various organs; in ophthalmology, it manifests as a complex or isolated absence of parts of certain eye structures – the iris, choroid, eyelid, optic nerve, ciliary body, or lens) and microphthalmos (a congenital eye defect in which one or both eyeballs are reduced in size), so she met the requirements.
• In one scene, Oliver (played by Jonah Ren Phillips) grabs a butcher knife and tries to eat it, leaving him with a lacerated and bloody mouth. The knife used in the filming was a prop (made of rubber), and the wounded face was also a prosthetic. With the permission of the Philippou brothers, child acting coaches were present on set to help their students with the most challenging scenes. In Phillips' case, his parents, who are actors themselves, were on set.
• According to Michael Philippou, the filmmakers considered several different endings, including one in which Katie (played by Misha Hayward) ends up in Piper's body. As a result, the finale was filmed to be more emotional than originally planned. The film is dedicated to the memory of Harley Wallace, a friend of the Philippou brothers, who passed away shortly before filming began.
• The film title translates to “Sorrow.”