When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
From directors Danny and Michael Philippou and starring Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, and more, TALK TO ME opens in theaters everywhere July 28
WAMG has 10 passes (good for 2 seats) to the advance screening on Wednesday, July 19th at AMC Esquire – 7 PM.
The scary new trailer has been released for TALK TO ME.
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
From a24 Films, the film is in theaters everywhere July 28.
Danny and Michael Phillipou weave together a stylish and blisteringly scary horror film that explores coming-of-age touchpoints with a singular, deceptively simple premise, unwinding the intensity of first love and loss and the thrill and terror of chasing an unforgettable new escape.
TALK TO ME is an ideal first feature for Danny and Michael Phillippou. It draws from each category of their training as filmmakers. It fuses their love of artful, evocative cinema with eye-widening stunts and violence. It looks back at their lives and processes their experiences through art, while ushering them past the next threshold of their careers. It brings together their creative partners of years back with exciting new collaborators. It is all of their layers compressed into one thrilling, audacious package—terrifying and emotional in equal measure, instantly becoming a vital new work in the growing pantheon of smart, sophisticated horror films.
The best way to describe Talk to Me is not just as one of the best films of 2007, but also as one of the most important. If you haven’t seen this yet, you owe it to yourself to rent the DVD. Director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou) has really outdone herself with this honest, well-told story of an African-American radio personality who becomes the voice of Washington D.C. during the turbulent 1960’s.
Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda) plays Ralph Waldo “Petey” Green, Jr. in this biographical film inspired by the true story of this real-life character. Cheadle is excellent, even more so, if I may be completely honest. Opposite Cheadle is Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster), who plays radio executive Dewey Hughes. Having reluctantly given Greene a shot at being a radio DJ, he soon learns he has stumbled upon a force for bringing the radio station closer to the people of D.C.
The movie’s tension explodes as news reaches the station that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been assassinated and D.C. unleashes its anger in riots. Seeing his town being torn apart by the raw emotion of the African-American community around him, Greene realizes its his duty to try and bring his neighbors out of their violent rage and convince them to pull together as a community for change, as Dr. King had envisioned. Talk to Me is a very enjoyable movie all around, with lots of humor rooted in real-life, plenty of drama, great music and some wonderful and often intense performances. Combine this with a story of historical significance and you have a film that received far less attention than it deserves.
