Never Let Go Has An Insanely Intense Scene With A Dog, And I Had To Ask Halle Berry And The Director About It

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Never Let Go . If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk! When we get to the end of the 2024 and reflect on the year in horror movies , there is on Never Let Go sequence that will be kept in high consideration for the scariest scene of the year..

. and anyone who has seen the film will know exactly what I’m talking about. At the start of the story’s third act, June ( Halle Berry ), Nolan (Percy Daggs IV) and Sam (Anthony B.

Jenkins) are on the verge of starvation, and in an act of desperation, they discuss eating their dog, Coda. Never Let Go Review: The New Halle Berry Horror Film Keeps You Guessing In A Great Way Between our intense desire as an audience to not see an animal harmed, June’s determination to help her family survive, and the outraged sadness of the boys , it’s incredibly hard to watch, and as June takes the pet out to the greenhouse with the intention of feeding her children, one feels no guarantees that the dog is safe. Following my screening of the film last month, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I felt compelled to ask about it when I interviewed director Alexandre Aja and Halle Berry at the movie’s Los Angeles press day.

Aja explained that everyone on the set of Never Let Go knew exactly what the nature of the sequence was, and generated a noticeable atmosphere. Everyone was not only aware that they were making a movie, but also exactly how everything was .