11/30/2023 0 Comments Nick wilde pin up![]() Two years after her mother’s suicide, schoolgirl Mia (Sophie Wilde) investigates the hand with her best bud, Jade (Alexandra Jensen), and Jade’s younger brother, Riley (Joe Bird) however, when Riley is possessed, he delivers words by Mia’s mother from beyond the grave. “I can’t really pinpoint what the film is about, because it’s expressing so many different things.”Ĭonsciously or subconsciously, the Philippous’ emotions spill onto the screen when its protagonists face their demons. “I was tapping into things that scared me personally,” says Danny. Are we going to be depressed in that way as well?” “Our grandmother took her own life, and our mum struggles with it. “Severe depression runs in our family,” says Michael. I wanted to make a film that felt like it captured today’s youth.” “Today’s generation is sadder, and social media plays a part in young people’s sadness,” says Danny. “It was: ‘Don’t walk into the woods.’ And now it’s: ‘Do it and film it.’” “It’s a spin on how an old, ancient, haunted object would be used these days,” says Michael. However, to the siblings, it isn’t a joke, just a prediction that Gen Z would respond to a gateway to the underworld with glee and switch on their phone camera. “And anything dumb, it’s Michael,” says Danny.Ī key gag in Talk to Me is that demonic possession via the embalmed hand is a welcome distraction from the realities of being a young person in the modern world. “If someone says something smart, it’s me,” says Michael. The interview is videoed as the publicist correctly predicts I won’t be able to tell their voices apart during the transcription. Already online celebrities for their RackaRacka YouTube channel, the Australian twins, both 30, are chatty and comfortable, Danny casually sat with shoes on his seat, Michael stretching in a purple hoodie. ![]() ![]() It’s at Sundance London that the two directors of Talk to Me talk to me for the horror that everyone wants to talk to me about, which has been picked up by A24 in the US and Altitude in the UK. So the whole film is a big, personal, therapeutic poo of a film.” ![]() “On YouTube, it’s specific content for a specific audience, and it couldn’t be personal. “The film was expressing all the things I couldn’t express on YouTube,” says Danny Philippou, who co-wrote the script with Bill Hinzman. Meanwhile, fellow partygoers upload the embarrassing, eye-opening footage to Snapchat. As a rule, a maximum of 90 seconds can be spent under its spell until the spirits gain too much control. Hold the hand and whisper “talk to me” to witness a demon only you can see, then utter the words “I let you in” to be possessed by the spirit in front of your amused friends. A cursed, disembodied hand is uncovered by teenagers in Adelaide and a viral craze is born. The most acclaimed horror of the year so far, Talk to Me certainly goes out on a limb. There are 30 seconds in the mischievous, macabre debut feature by Danny and Michael Philippou where I simply had to cover my eyes, instead leaving my brain to decipher the action via the sound of crunching bones and agonising yelps – some from fictional characters, others from fellow cinemagoers reacting with revulsion to the skull-bashing onscreen. ![]()
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