ABC’s got the full spec on the Philippou brother’s Talk to Me, and I love everything about it. Their personal backstory. The meta riff on social media. And making Adelaide a very obvious location for a social horror/demonic possession story. I’m not gonna see this because I don’t much like horror movies, but I love that a couple of local YouTube kids have parlayed their scary/funny little videos into a big kickarse theatrical release.
It begins in a location right out of a horror-movie nightmare: suburban Adelaide, where, captured in a bravura tracking shot by cinematographer Aaron McLisky, a blowout house party of bored, drunk teenagers rages into the night. It's all teen-movie business as usual until an apparently possessed partygoer comes to a nasty end, the victim of a deadly occult game gone too far.
In a clever variation on the viral challenges that sweep through TikTok, teens have become obsessed with mysterious new videos where their peers get off on the temporary high of being possessed by a demonic force.
There’s a found-family of teens who score an invite to a basement party featuring an embalmed hand adorned with cryptic carvings, severed from the arm of a psychic, of course.
If a player says "talk to me", the hand reveals to them a shadow dimension of ghouls and waylaid souls who exist in the room. Follow that with "I let you in" and they get a mainline hit as one of those anguished entities possesses their body, all while the assembled onlookers capture the transformation for viral posterity.
The catch: the possession needs to be shut down in 90 seconds, or the player might end up with a permanent demonic cohabitant.
I wonder what the sequel twist will be at the end? (there is always one - the movie will end with the hand being burnt in a fire pit or something then the end credits will pan to a one armed psychic convention or something)
also the production company A24 is one of the good'uns having agreed to the last offer made by the SAG-AFTRA during contract negotiations with studio and streamer reps AMPTP.
I wonder what the sequel twist will be at the end? (there is always one - the movie will end with the hand being burnt in a fire pit or something then the end credits will pan to a one armed psychic convention or something)
also the production company A24 is one of the good'uns having agreed to the last offer made by the SAG-AFTRA during contract negotiations with studio and streamer reps AMPTP.