A24’s new horror flick Discuss to Me revolves round an embalmed hand that when touched, provides the opposite particular person a connection between the worlds of the useless and the dwelling. Within the movie, a group of excessive schoolers use the factor at events and report themselves on social media—you maintain the hand, say “speak to me,” and a spirit possess you for 90 seconds. However issues go very south when Sophie Wilde’s Mia makes use of the hand longer than anybody else and finally ends up bringing one thing again along with her.

Discuss to Me’s directing duo, brothers Danny and Michael Philippou beforehand spoke with io9 about leaping into the horror film scene and the individuality of their movie. Danny (who co-wrote the film with Invoice Hinzman) additionally spoke with GamesRadar talked about a number of the movie’s influences, with one in all them being a time he watched his neighbor expertise medication for the primary time. Phillipou recalled seeing that neighbor “[have] a extremely unfavorable response to what he was taking, and all his mates weren’t serving to him, they have been filming him and laughing at him.” Equally, he talked about receiving a brief movie from Daley Pearson—who performed Daryl in Marvel’s Group Thor brief—about children screwing round with possession. Although that video was extra comedic, it drove Phillipou to take a crack at that movie and mess around with its preliminary idea.

“I modified the tone, made it a bit extra critical,” he stated. “I arrange a number of characters I used to be connecting with, like Jade, Mia, and Riley, after which as soon as I began writing, I couldn’t cease.” He had round 10 pages of a script in just a little over every week, and he and Hinzman ultimately “began passing it forwards and backwards. It modified quite a bit all through that course of, it was always evolving.”

When speaking to io9, the Phillipou brothers touched on how they got here up with the hand’s design, revealing that its ultimate model didn’t come till the day its scene was shot. Danny instructed GamesRadar the hand didn’t issue into the movie’s precise story till its second draft. In centering the film round it, he and Hinzman “wished the hand to have an actual sense of historical past, and to clarify that this factor has been handed round between lots of of individuals, and been all around the world.”

Discuss to Me is in theaters now.

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