Never Let Go 2024 Movie Review
“Never Let Go” follows a mother (Berry) and her fraternal twin sons (Anthony B. Jenkins and Percy Daggs), who have protected themselves from a malicious spirit for years under their family’s protective bond. However, when one of the boys begins to question the existence of the evil, the bond is broken, leading to a terrifying fight for survival.
When Alexandre Aja makes a horror movie, it’s time to sit up and take notice. The director behind High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, and Crawl is back with the survival horror Never Let Go. And this one is led by Oscar winner Halle Berry as a mother looking to protect her twin sons from evil.
But is this evil real? Or something imagined in Mom’s head? That’s the central question as the siblings, played by Percy Daggs IV and Anthony B. Jenkins, begin to question what’s real and what’s imagined. They live with their mother way off the grid in a remote house deep in the woods. Her fear is so strong she insists they remain connected at all times by long ropes. When the boys begin to wonder if these evil spirits are real, one ventures out to find the truth, only to get lost in the woods and leaving it up to Mom to fight for their survival.
Aja (“The Hills Have Eyes,” “Piranha 3D”) directed from a script by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby. He also produced alongside 21 Laps’ Dan Cohen, Dan Levine and Shawn Levy with Berry, Dan Clarke, Connor DiGregorio, Holly Jeter, Emily Morris and Christopher Woodrow serving as executive producers.
Berry is no stranger to horror and thriller films, having starred in “Gothika,” “The Rich Man’s Wife,” “Perfect Stranger,” “Dark Tide” and “The Call.” At Lionsgate’s CinemaCon panel in April, the Oscar-winning actor said she took on the role in “Never Let Go” because she’s a “bonafide adrenaline junkie” and the film “gave [her] an opportunity to be a part of a world [she] had never seen before.”
“With this movie, it reminded me how I would protect my children with my life,” Berry added. “We often say, ‘I would take a bullet for my kids.’ Would you take a knife for your kids?”
