“Talk to the hand” may be a popular phrase of breezy dismissal, but talking to a particular hand has terrible consequences in the Australian horror “Talk to Me.” This directorial debut feature for …
belies their prior reputation as “filmmakers on a rampage” making sometimes controversially violent, bad-taste comedic videos for YouTube channel RackaRacka. It’s a determinedly non-jokey supernatural thriller in which a group of Adelaide teens get in way over their heads playing an occult party game.
After a brief, stabby prologue, the significance of which is unclear until later, we meet high schooler Mia , who since her mother’s suicide two years earlier has been spending a lot of time away from her father . She much prefers the less gloomy household of bestie Jade , her little brother Riley and their single mum Sue — even if it’s a little awkward that Jade is going steady with Daniel , who was Mia’s first beau.
Eager to ditch her weird-girl-whose-mother-killed-herself image, Mia volunteers, then pronounces the experience “amazing,” if also a bit frightening. Soon she and Jade are hosting another such gathering themselves, while Sue is safely out for the evening. But this time things get out of control, particularly after Mia makes the reckless decision to let little Riley have a go at being “handsy.” He emerges much, much worse for wear.
The able performers are game for fleshing out these higher-than-usual psychological stakes in a spooky movie. Their earnest efforts only go so far in giving “Talk to Me” emotional weight, though, when its balance of melodrama, somber mood and fantasy is relatively smooth in directorial execution but wobbly in scripted terms.
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