Talk To Me Movie Review
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00:00 Wow. Talk about coming out swinging in your directorial debut.
00:04 This is...
00:05 This is the one to watch this weekend.
00:07 I'm just saying.
00:08 So Talk To Me is an A24 indie horror flick.
00:16 I saw the trailer some time ago.
00:18 Never saw the trailer again, but when I saw the trailer,
00:20 I was like, "That actually looks pretty awesome."
00:22 Time goes on, forgot all about it,
00:23 and people in the comment section of my last review were like,
00:25 "You should totally watch Talk To Me.
00:26 That's the one you should be watching."
00:28 I was like, "Oh, what's that?"
00:29 It's, "Oh, that movie! Yeah, that trailer looked great."
00:32 In Talk To Me, there's this creepy porcelain hand.
00:34 You shake the hand, you say, "Talk to me, a spirit will appear."
00:38 The spirit can latch on to you.
00:39 If they do it for less than 90 seconds, hey, it's fun times.
00:42 More than 90 seconds, you might just be haunted forever.
00:45 Which actually, it's cooler than it sounded just now.
00:48 When I was hearing myself talk about it,
00:50 I was like, "That just sounds like every horror movie ever."
00:53 Haunted object, people mess around with the haunted object.
00:55 Now something is latched on to the folks messing around with the haunted object.
00:59 Right, we've seen that how many times?
01:01 That's kind of what I love about this, though.
01:02 It shows what a familiar sounding concept can be in the right hands.
01:07 Elevated, with its own spin, and it feels new.
01:09 Without overcomplicating it, that's another thing.
01:11 I love the fact that the object, it could be any object.
01:15 For this film, it's a hand.
01:16 The handshake is a universal, friendly greeting for most folks.
01:22 Nope. Could go very wrong in here.
01:24 There's something simple yet brilliant about that.
01:26 Now the directors, Danny and Michael Filippo, it's their feature film directorial debut.
01:31 And they have a YouTube channel. They're YouTubers.
01:33 I mean, among other things, you look at the IMDb,
01:35 they are listed as working as crew behind the camera on some other projects, TV shows, and film.
01:41 They also made short films on their YouTube channel.
01:44 It's just, what a great story. It's actually kind of incredible.
01:47 Work in the industry behind the camera, get the experience,
01:50 make short films on your YouTube channel,
01:53 gain the experience, gain the skills.
01:55 And when you've gained all the skill points in this RPG known as life,
01:59 turn them all in, crush it in your directorial debut.
02:01 And that's exactly what they did.
02:03 Because if you look at their YouTube channel and you hear,
02:04 "These guys are going to make a feature film,"
02:07 you would be forgiven if you thought,
02:08 "Yeah, it's going to be a super high-octane action flick."
02:11 It's not.
02:12 This is a very deliberately paced, amazingly creepy horror film.
02:16 The pacing in this movie is great.
02:18 It doesn't rush the tension building,
02:20 but also it starts out with this scene that just makes you like,
02:24 "Oh my God!" It just sticks with you.
02:26 Kind of like a reverse babysitter from hell
02:28 sitting with you while you're watching the plot build.
02:32 Like it's whispering in your ear all like,
02:33 "Don't worry. It's not going to be okay."
02:37 The cast is a group of young, very talented, generally unknown people by me.
02:42 The ones I did know, Miranda Otto, who played Eowyn in the Lord of the Rings movies.
02:46 She plays the mom. I thought she was fantastic.
02:48 She had a couple of moments of interaction that made me chuckle,
02:51 but it didn't overtly look like they were just trying to interject humor into this film.
02:56 It didn't feel out of place.
02:58 How many times we've seen that these days?
03:00 It's like movies are like, "Yeah, but we got to have funny things to just feel out of place."
03:04 It was never like that.
03:05 But then when it gets real, it absolutely gets real.
03:07 She's very dramatic about it.
03:09 It just all worked.
03:10 Also, Zoe Tarrakis, who I personally knew from the Wentworth series,
03:13 was also really good in here.
03:14 Like everybody does a great job.
03:16 But Sophie Wilde is the star of this film.
03:18 The main character being tormented by spirits, possessed by spirits.
03:20 I thought she was phenomenal.
03:22 Human, vulnerable, and scary all at the same time.
03:25 You know, when she's the one being scary.
03:27 Don't fuck around with ghosts. They can be dicks.
03:29 But how is the horror in the film?
03:30 Yes, the horror is very effective.
03:32 You have visual horror.
03:34 Some of these ghosts are actually pretty horrific looking.
03:36 There are a couple of gross-out moments, which I usually don't like.
03:40 But in most movies, the gross-out moments, like everything else, tries too hard.
03:44 In this movie, I felt the gross-out moments were in context of the world
03:50 that we're dealing with here.
03:51 It's the best I can say it.
03:52 What you're dealing with is one scene in particular, I'm like, "That's nasty."
03:56 But that would happen.
03:57 But this movie deals with the best of horror, which for me is the anxiety.
04:01 You know, it's that proverbial guitar string tightening in the room.
04:05 The tension that just doesn't go away.
04:07 It gives you some solid haunting creep factor,
04:09 but better than most, also illustrates the state of mental hell and torment
04:14 that situation would be.
04:16 In terms of unbridled fright factor,
04:18 this is the most effectively scary or unsettling horror movie
04:23 I've seen in a very long time.
04:25 Guys, in the end, I genuinely hope this movie is number one in the box office this weekend.
04:31 A couple more days of word of mouth.
04:32 I hope it gets there because it genuinely deserves it.
04:35 And if not this weekend, hey, as we've seen recently,
04:38 word of mouth can carry a film onward and upward.
04:41 I hope it gets there.
04:42 If someone had told me that this film was actually directed by a very seasoned horror director,
04:47 I would have believed it.
04:48 It's that well executed.
04:50 It's something that feels fresh, new, and elevated in the horror movie genre.
04:53 It's one of my favorites of the year.
04:55 Absolutely.
04:56 Not going to draw this out any longer.
04:57 Talk to me is...
04:59 Awesome-tacular.
05:01 [crowd cheering]
05:06 Alright, so talk to me.
05:07 Have you seen it?
05:08 What did you think about it?
05:08 Whatever you thought, comment below.
05:09 Let me know.
05:10 And as always, if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more,
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05:14 [music]