The movie "Bring Her Back" (2025) opens with a chilling scene: 17-year-old Andy and his partially sighted step-sister Piper discover their father dead in the shower, his body naked and lifeless. This traumatic moment sets the tone for the film. With their mother absent, the siblings are placed into foster care, where they are sent to live with Laura, an eccentric former counselor who also fosters a mute boy named Oliver. Laura’s own daughter Cathy, who was blind, died by accidental drowning in the backyard pool, a tragedy that haunts Laura deeply.

At the funeral for their father, held in a local church with an open casket, Andy tries to comfort Piper by talking about their father’s spirit ascending to heaven. Meanwhile, Laura steals a lock of hair from the deceased father’s body, hinting at her involvement in occult practices. She later explains to Andy that some believe the soul lingers in the corpse after death, planting a seed of unease.

Andy reveals to Piper that their father was abusive toward him but affectionate toward her, which fuels his resentment. Laura, meanwhile, reflects on her lost daughter Cathy, expressing a desperate wish to hear Cathy call her "mum" again. This sets up Laura’s motivation for the dark rituals to come.

The next day, Andy attempts to bond with Oliver, the mute boy. He encourages Oliver to write on a notepad and offers him chopped rockmelon as a reward. Oliver writes the word "Bird," but then suddenly gnaws violently on the knife Andy used to cut the fruit, drawing blood. When Andy tries to carry Oliver beyond the magical circle Laura has drawn around her property, Oliver convulses and screams for help. Laura arrives, calms Oliver by rubbing his head, and feeds him the lock of their father’s hair, reinforcing the supernatural control she has over him.

That night, Andy tries to shower but is interrupted by a hallucination of Oliver as his father’s ghost, warning him, "She'll die in the rain." In his shock, Andy slips and hits his head, deepening the sense of dread.

As the story unfolds, disturbing flashbacks reveal a violent resurrection ritual involving a nearly naked man and a bound girl, as well as a zombie-like figure gnawing on a corpse’s face. These scenes are connected to Laura’s occult practices aimed at bringing her daughter Cathy back from the dead.

Laura leads Oliver to a freezer where he begins to consume Cathy’s frozen corpse. Oliver’s body becomes grotesquely bloated, and he vomits the gore he has eaten. He also injures himself by smashing a glass window and crushing a fly, emphasizing his monstrous transformation.

Tensions escalate when Piper tries to flee Laura’s house but is knocked out. Laura attempts to drown Piper in the pool, mirroring Cathy’s accidental death. Oliver, now bloated and monstrous, waits nearby. In a moment of guilt and desperation, Laura snaps out of her trance and releases Piper, who calls Laura "mom" one last time, echoing Laura’s longing for her daughter.

Piper fights back by kicking Oliver in the gut, causing him to vomit Cathy’s remains all over the patio. She escapes and is picked up by a couple on the side of the road, narrowly avoiding further harm.

The film closes with Oliver finding a missing person poster, suggesting a lingering connection to Cathy and the unresolved horror of Laura’s ritual.

Throughout the film, Andy’s protective nature toward Piper and his struggle with their father’s abuse contrast with Laura’s obsessive grief and dark magic. The characters are trapped in a nightmarish cycle of loss, control, and supernatural horror, culminating in a visceral and unsettling climax that leaves the viewer with haunting images of death, resurrection, and desperate maternal love.

The ritual involves feeding the corpse of the person to be resurrected to a possessed host. In this case, Oliver, who is possessed by a demon named Tari, eats pieces of Cathy's corpse. The ritual requires the host to regurgitate the corpse and its lingering soul into a newly dead body of a person killed in the same manner as the one to be resurrected. Laura intends to use Piper as this vessel by drowning her in the pool to mimic Cathy's death.

Laura uses blood and magic circles to supernaturally control the zombified Oliver. One such circle surrounds her entire property, and if Oliver is pulled outside this circle, he writhes and screams in pain.

The VHS tape shows a resurrection ritual that Laura learns from. It depicts a zombie-like individual devouring a corpse and then vomiting its contents into another person's face and mouth. This ritual is central to Laura's plan to resurrect Cathy.

When Andy and Wendy confront Laura, she runs them over with her car. Wendy dies instantly, and Andy is severely injured. Laura then drowns Andy in a puddle in her driveway.

Laura stops the ritual at the last moment because Piper calls out 'Mom!' while Laura is trying to drown her in the pool. This seems to awaken some level of remorse in Laura, causing her to hesitate and ultimately spare Piper's life.

The movie "Bring Her Back" (2025) is rated R and is not family friendly. It contains strong disturbing and bloody violent content, graphic nudity, underage drinking, and strong language, making it unsuitable for children or sensitive viewers.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting scenes include: - Strong, disturbing, and bloody violence, including a boy biting a sharp knife with visible blood and tissue, biting a woman’s arm, and biting his own arm with blood and tissue seen. - Grisly images related to a ritual that appears to bring people back from the dead, including people consuming dead bodies. - Scenes of a person being struck by a car and killed, and a person being drowned in a puddle and in a swimming pool. - Discussions of child abuse and foster care, with children placed in harrowing jeopardy and exposed to violence and neglect. - Full non-sexual male nudity and some partial non-sexual nudity. - At least 16 uses of the F-word and other strong language. - Themes of grief, madness, and abuse on a harrowing scale, with unsettling and unhinged characters.

The film’s intense and graphic content, including violence against children and disturbing supernatural elements, makes it very hard to watch and inappropriate for younger or sensitive audiences.