Talk to Me: Horror Movie Review

 

🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓 out of 🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓

If I could've given this one six hatchets, I would've. Everything was perfect in this film: the plot, the pacing, the ending. It's rare to find horror flawlessness. This Aussie gem stars Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Mirada Otto, and Zoe Terakes.

In this creeper, teens don't need weed and booze anymore. They use what's either the severed-and-embalmed hand of a medium or a Satanist. Neither is fully defined.

At a party in Adelaide, Cole is looking for his brother, Duckett, two cool-looking longhairs. When he finds him, he stabs Cole, then fatally stabs himself in the head. Duckett had been playing that nasty party game.

Mia, 17, misses her mother heart wrenchingly, who died of an accidental sleeping-pill overdose. Mia, her bestie, Jade, and her little brother, Riley, sneak out to a party--of which they know full well what kind of party it is, as they've been checking out cell-phone videos of possessed teens playing a conjuring game that they all think is fun (?????). At the gathering, the teens take turns grabbing the hand and saying "Talk to Me," which makes them see the ghost. Then they say "I let you in," which makes them briefly possessed, until the timer goes off and another teen pulls them away from the hand. But when Mia's taken over, she tells Riley creepily that the spirits want him bad.

Riley's too young to play, as he had to blackmail the girls to bring him along, but when Jade briefly exits the room, the other teens nastily let him. Of course, he gets possessed, but to the nth power, and he bashes his head onto the table so vehemently he ends up heavily-injured and in the hospital. 

Seeking help from Cole is fruitless. He doesn't want anything to do with it, too traumatized to bother.

Mia has long-term effects and starts seeing her mother everywhere. Then a ghost of a gnarly old lady shows her that a huge mob of spirits are all over Riley, torturing the crap out of him in the other realm. When trying to aid him, this time the ghosts make him bash the back of his head into shower tiles, injuring him even worse.

 Jade and her mother find out Mia has (accidentally) stabbed her father to death (as she was dealing with these spirits and was tricked), and strive to keep her out of Riley's room, for she's dangerous. Mia won't heed and sets out with the ghosts to free Riley by any means necessary. But is that what the spirits really want?

I was riveted from start-to-finish by this prize. If you haven't seen it, it's definitely a must-see!