Talk to Me is a fierce, fun, energetic, surprising horror debut from Danny and Michael Philippou. awalrusdarkly's review:
There’s a certain cultural flattening that’s come with the boom of horror cinema in the last 10 years, a tendency to want to group these films into one of two categories. In one box, there’s the “fun” horror films, the ones that don’t take themselves too seriously, and in the other, there’s the
that are designed to convince the public that horror can be serious. This binary, as horror fans know very well, is not real, and to prove it we get films like, the feature directorial debut of RackaRacka YouTube creators Danny and Michael Philippou. Fierce, fun, and steeped in youthful energy, it’s a film that’s willing to go to some truly dark places in its exploration of grief, death and what it means when we reach too far into the beyond, but it’s also never afraid to laugh along the way.
This is, even non-horror devotees will notice, a riff on classic séance narratives in which humans open a door that’s not to be trifled with, and let something dark and dangerous out.never tries to mask its roots in time-honored formulas, but approaches its tropes and recognizable story beats with an earnestness that’s both endearing and frank.
And the horror, when it hits, hits with visceral intensity. Anyone who’s ever seen a RackaRacka horror short knows how well the Philippou brothers can craft a surprising scare, and those scares emerge with real ferocity in. From ghosts suddenly appearing once the code phrase is spoken in a séance to quick eruptions of human violence,is a very scary film, but the gags are about more than delivering on jumpscare thrills and outbursts of creative, chaotic gore.
At a time when we spend far too much energy trying to swing horror movies into one side or the other of a senseless binary,reminds us that fun and true existential terror don’t have to be mutually exclusive areas of storytelling.is as funny as it is frightening, as poignant as it is pulse-pounding, and the whole thing is rooted in a modern reality that feels like you could step into it tomorrow, which only adds to both the humor and the fear.
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