With You (DVD): A Considered Take

Every few months the phrase 'movie with you' surfaces in search data, and most of the results point to something else entirely — the Netflix thriller, a Taylor Swift lyric, a playlist. Buried a few pages in is this one: a 2006 independent horror film that most people have never encountered and that deserves at least a passing look from the right audience.

Independent horror from the mid-2000s occupies a strange cultural position. It was a period when digital cameras made production accessible but distribution remained genuinely difficult. A lot of work from that era exists in a kind of limbo — made with real intention, seen by almost no one, available now only through third-party DVD sellers and the occasional streaming backwater. With You is exactly that kind of film.

What separates it from the pile is craft deployed in the right places. Christensen clearly understood that money couldn't buy atmosphere — it had to be constructed through framing, sound design, and performance. The film makes those choices deliberately. The result isn't flawless, but it's coherent in a way that many better-funded productions aren't.

For collectors of physical media, the DVD is an easy add to a horror shelf. The disc itself is no-frills, but the film is the point. Used copies come in well under ten dollars through third-party sellers, which is the right price for a discovery watch. If it lands, you've found something. If it doesn't, the cost of admission was modest.

The audience for this is specific: someone who works through independent horror methodically, who values a director's intentions over polish, and who finds genuine satisfaction in surfacing films that never got a fair hearing. That viewer will find With You worth the time.