{"id":15938,"date":"2023-10-18T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:12:47","slug":"talk-to-me-2022-danny-michael-philippou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15938","title":{"rendered":"Talk to Me (2022, Danny & Michael Philippou)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typical dumb-youth peer-pressure setup, the idea of grabbing the cursed severed hand and letting random angry ghosts inhabit your body for a couple minutes quickly turns from an unthinkably bad idea to a hilariously fun drinking game. The movie makes summoning demons for social media clout seem like a realistic idea, then after a wild possession party, Mia lets her little brother Riley participate, and while possessed he smashes his face and blinds himself, so party’s over.<\/p>\n

Mia and the kid are still somewhat possessed, making a series of bad decisions (he is violently suicidal, she steals the demon-hand and decides to murder her dad). Craziest part was the sound mixing, when watching at home through the soundbar, you turn up the volume to hear the mumbly teens then the sounds of match strikes and knives whistling through the air are loud enough to shake the walls. The directors are famous youtubers who’ve already got Talk 2 Me<\/em> and Untitled Prequel<\/em> on their filmographies.<\/p>\n

Riley, Mia, Young Jason Momoa from Aquaman, Jade:<\/em>
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Already my second movie of the month where someone stabs themself in the face – I rewatched The Empty Man<\/a><\/em>, which is referenced in Adam Nayman’s Ringer article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Talk to Me<\/em> is closer to something like Zach Cregger\u2019s brute-force B-movie, Barbarian<\/a><\/em>, than Peele\u2019s intricately intellectualized \u201csocial thrillers.\u201d But whatever their pretensions \u2014 or lack thereof \u2014 the Philippous are keen observers of a marketplace where it pays to attach some kind of pedigree to terror, and underneath its adroit shock tactics, Talk to Me<\/em> makes a fairly significant concession to the elevated-horror model by hinging its plot on a case of capital-G Grief. The reason Mia is so susceptible to possession is because she\u2019s heartbroken over the death of her mother, whose overdose may or may not have been an act of self-harm. Where her friends are just chasing a hedonistic thrill, she\u2019s trying, if at first only unconsciously, to reconnect with a loved one \u2014 a difference that ends up dooming her above the others and rerouting a story line bristling with unpredictability into a fairly conventional trajectory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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