Talk to Me’s first trailer is a demonic dare
by Andrew Webster from The Verge - All Posts on (#6APCJ)
Image: Sundance Institute One of the most shocking movies out of this year's Sundance was Talk to Me - and now, you can finally get a glimpse of the horror flick in its first trailer. The film, which is the directorial debut of YouTubers Danny and Michael Philippou, is a brutal and unrelenting take on teen horror, telling the story of an embalmed hand that lets people become inhabited by spirits after they perform a very specific ritual. The process becomes a viral phenomenon and, well, let's just say that things don't go so well.
In my review from Sundance, I described Talk to Me as a shockingly competent debut - and not at all what I expected from a horror movie made by YouTube stars. It may be a movie about viral videos - but the film itself is much more...