When 'Together' Movie Will Be Available to Stream and How to Watch
Neon's traditional model means you're not bumping it into your queue until at least six months post-release—possibly longer, depending on licensing and platform negotiations. So if you're champing at the bit between now and the new year, you'll be catching it in theaters.
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Together's aforementioned elder, Longlegs, hit theaters in July 2024, and didn't stream until February 2025. The buzz and surrounding Together could shorten that window, if the powers at be want to capitalize on the ephemeral moment.
If you're opposed to the movie theater experience, you're wrong but you're lucky. You've found yourself in the height of the streaming empire, with access to more content than ever in cinematic history. So, if you're looking for a Together vibe, but are waiting to watch Together alone, here are some sister films to consider.
David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), stars Jeff Goldblum as a scientist whose teleportation machine merges his DNA with that of a housefly. His body begins to deteriorate, alongside his relationship with his journalist girlfriend (Geena Davis). Another '80s hit, Possession (1981) traces a crumbling marriage to its most absurd conclusion– a grotesque transformation in one of cinema's most disturbing depictions of emotional collapse.
That aforementioned Cronenberg is really the godfather of body horror and, essentially, walked so the team behind Together could run.
His most disturbing and provocative work was Crash (1996), which followed a group of people who derive sexual pleasure from car crashes and bodily trauma. Decades later, Julia Ducournau delivered a Cronenberg inspired body horror for the new age, Titane (2021) follows a woman whose traumatic head injury sparks a sexual attraction to cars.
Unhinged Jake Gyllenhaal is a cinematic subgenre at this point in history. Enter Enemy (2013), which stars the star as a reclusive professor who discovers an actor that looks exactly like him. As their lives intertwine, reality fractures, obsession deepens, and identity blurs into psychological horror.
Same, same, but different, Swallow (2019) is about a young woman who marries into wealth and develops a compulsive urge to swallow inedible objects like thumbtacks and batteries. It's a haunting meditation on the erasure of self within domestic relationships and patriarchal systems—a film where body horror is internalized and symbolic.
If you're having trouble seeing the forest for the trees, all of these movies share themes of mental or emotional strife manifesting itself in the body. Together is the latest to sew together a relationship drama with that thread.
As with any horror flick, we are in spoiler territory. Our recommendation? Hit the theaters. Otherwise, we'll meet back here in 2026.
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