Two brothers who started making online content now have a feature at Sundance. Here’s how they did it.
The great thing about horror is its flexibility and the way it so easily melds with other genres and ideas that might sound disparate at first.
Take, for instance, what will likely be one of Sundance 2023’s strongest genre films. In Talk to Me, Aussie teens come into possession of a strange hand figurine covered in graffiti. It’s creepy enough on its own, but then we learn that a few simple words allow the figurine to conjure spirits and possess whoever holds the hand.
As audience members, of course, we’re thinking, “Get rid of that thing.” But of course these teens start using the hand essentially as a party drug, taking turns getting “high” on possession and filming each other’s contorted faces, weird vocalizations, and gross-out behavior for laughs. Until, inevitably, things go awry.
Author: Jo Light
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