After racking up a following of over 6 million subscribers on their YouTube channel RackaRacka, Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou have made their feature directorial debut with the horror film Talk to Me, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. (You can read our review at THIS LINK.) Talk to Me went over so well with festival audiences (it has been said that even the likes of Steven Spielberg and Jordan Peele have watched and loved the film), a bidding war was launched over the distribution rights. And the winner of that bidding war, overcoming competition from studios like Universal, was A24. Deadline reports that A24 is planning to give Talk to Me a wide release on July 28th.
That happens to be the same day Disney’s Haunted Mansion will be reaching theatres.
Talk to Me has the following synopsis: 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.
The film stars Sophia Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Djanji, and Zoe Terakes. The movie currently has a 98% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Fangoria has described it as “an absolute blast”, and our friends at Bloody Disgusting say it’s “an intense, nightmarish horror movie that’ll leave you breathless.”
A24 is one of the most well-regarded distributors of genre films out there these days. Their previous releases include X, Pearl, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Men, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Lamb, The Green Knight, Saint Maud, The Witch, The Lighthouse, Hereditary, Midsommar, It Comes at Night, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Tusk, Green Room, Ex Machina, Life After Beth, Under the Skin, and many more.
Does Talk to Me sound interesting to you? Let us know by leaving a comment below – and if you have already seen the movie, definitely let us know what you thought of it. I look forward to hearing and seeing more about it.
A YouTube video Danny and Michael Philippou made about taking their movie out into the world can be viewed in this embed: