After their father’s death, a brother and a sister have to go to a foster house only to be involved in a horrific ritual.
Disturbing, eerie, and shockingly unsettling! Danny and Michael Philippou surely know how to “open the curtains” – Talk to Me (2022) offered a different shock of the same level. The occult and the ostensibly inexplicable atrocities that come with it will make you wonder how they connect to the drama the two kids will have to face immediately after. Who’s Laura? What’s with her son, Oliver? What really happened to her daughter? What is this place? How does it connect to the occult? How are they gonna make it? Bring who back from where? All these questions and more arise throughout the first act. And if you think that’s disturbing, wait until the second one kicks in.
There isn’t much I can say without spoiling it for you, so let me tell you how it feels. OK, I’ll tell you this one thing. Upon building it up for some time, making you wonder what on earth is going on, “the knife” scene will make you react like very few times have in the cinema. Moving on, the psychological and the paranormal blend into a duplicitous horror with unforeseen intentions that raise doubts about something ominous being about to happen. Something that you will not like at all, but hopefully with a happy ending. Will you get it, though?
Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Sally Hawkins, and Jonah Wren Phillips perform amazingly in front of the camera. A24 and the Philippou Brothers, after doing a brilliant job with Talk to Me, find more creative ways to shock your system! You will avert your eyes, you will clench your fists, you will groan, and you will grasp for breath. You are in for a huge surprise. Pleasant or unpleasant, surely it’ll be uncomfortable. See for yourselves…
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