There’s a good portion of the inhabitants that believes in ghosts. Whether you consider that the lifeless stroll amongst us or not, you possibly can’t deny that there is a distinctive fascination with what lies within the afterlife. Several tried and true strategies of crossing between life and loss of life have come and gone. Ouija boards, dimly lit mirrors, and even summoning circles have reached past our mortal coil to speak straight with the lifeless, with various outcomes. If you’ve got seen sufficient horror motion pictures, it is a provided that trying to fire up the afterlife is asking for hassle, particularly if it is a group of youngsters.
A24’s upcoming horror movie Talk to Me goals to duplicate this setup with a bizarrely grotesque technique of summoning the lifeless — a severed, embalmed hand. Defying the standard setup of a magical possession movie, Talk to Me goals to take the subgenre in a brand new path, guided by a pair of creators with a notably humble origin. Until the movie ultimately releases in theaters, that is the whole lot we learn about A24’s Talk to Me.
Talk to Me: The Plot
The official plot synopsis for Talk To Me offered by A24 is as follows:
“When a gaggle of mates uncover the right way to conjure spirits utilizing an embalmed hand, they change into hooked on the brand new thrill, till one in all them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.”
From the synopsis alone, issues appear just a little bog-standard. Minus the inclusion of an embalmed hand, it presents a typical “messing with forces past your understanding” story. By greedy the hand within the presence of a lit candle and uttering the phrase “speak to me,” we’re led to consider {that a} spirit can briefly possess whoever grasped the hand till the candle is extinguished. You can virtually draw parallels to drug use based mostly on how interacting with the hand feels “wonderful,” how reactions to the hand’s affect are filmed and shared through a gaggle chat, and so forth. It’s protected to imagine that a few of these teenagers are greater than just a little complicit in unsettling the opposite aspect. Thankfully, Talk to Me locations its give attention to the extra private aspect of contacting the lifeless.
Continuing the similarities to drug use and habit, our lead character Mia finds herself in sole possession of the hand after coming into contact with what she believes to be the spirit of her deceased mom. It may be assumed that, in an effort to reconnect together with her mom, she finds herself abusing the hand’s connection to the afterlife till the implications for doing so come to fruition. It would not be a stretch to say that Mia’s “mom” will not be who she says she is, as her mates are dispatched one after the other in exceptionally grisly vogue.
While we can’t see any buckets of pea soup, we’re sure to see some gnarly results. In Talk to Me’s trailer, the “2” within the A24 brand is made up of our non secular hand bending and twisting into the gnarled quantity, with the identical sort of horrible squelching noises you’d anticipate from a meat grinder. A quick glimpse of a kangaroo in what seems to be a sterile setting additionally guarantees to be uniquely terrifying.
Talk to Me: The Cast
Leading Talk to Me as Mia is Sophie Wilde, an actor based mostly in Australia who beforehand led the Stan unique collection, Eden. She additionally appeared within the Netflix collection You Don’t Know Me and the upcoming Stan unique movie The Portable Door. She’s no stranger to dramatic roles, having additionally performed Ophelia in a 2020 manufacturing of Hamlet. Acting alongside Wilde is Joe Bird (First Day, Rabbit), Otis Dhanji (Aquaman), Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Marcus Johnson (Spartacus), Alexandra Jensen (Amazing Grace, Beat), Alexandria Steffensen (Eden, How to Please a Woman), and Zoe Terakes (Wentworth). The movie’s noticeably youthful solid has drawn reward from critics since its preliminary premiere, with highlights aimed in direction of Sophie Wilde and Joe Bird.
Release Date
Talk to Me will launch in theaters on July 28.
Talk to Me: Everything Else
Talk to Me was created by twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Phillippou. The duo shared a mutual curiosity in filmmaking from a younger age earlier than making a YouTube channel named “RackaRacka” in 2013. From there, the duo has produced a number of viral shorts that includes a parodic tackle Ronald McDonald, a number of pop-culture mashups, and severe horror tales. Talk to Me will mark their feature-film debut, and if it performs properly, it could open the door for future movies from the Phillippou brothers.
Talk to Me initially made its theatrical debut within the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight Selection, alongside different movies like In My Mother’s Skin and Polite Society. It would later see one other airing at South By Southwest following its acquisition by A24.