Australian Teenagers Summon Indignant Ghosts In This Evil Lifeless-Like Horror Flick [Sundance]

There’s an inherent predictability to this premise. You’ll be able to inform from the setup — teenagers summoning ghosts! — that one thing goes to go very unsuitable right here. And it does. However that predictability would not damage the movie. As a substitute, it virtually provides to the enjoyable — certain, we will guess what’s coming. However we won’t guess the vivid and evocative methods the occasions ultimately unfold. 

At first, it is all enjoyable and video games — the act of getting the ghost possess you is offered as one thing akin to a rush, as if these children have simply completed a large bump of cocaine. When it is Mia’s flip to shake the hand and converse to the lifeless, she’s scared at first — however then succumbs to the fun of all of it. However when the youthful Riley decides he needs a attempt in any respect of this spooky stuff, issues do not go in response to plan, and a genuinely horrific sequence of violence unfolds.

“Discuss to Me” would not maintain again on the crimson stuff, and whereas I would not say it is excessively gory, it has a method of dealing with its bloody violence that actually will get to you. It is like a shock to the system, and it serves as a singular counterbalance to the early scenes when the kids are performing like goofballs. It is all enjoyable and video games till ghosts begin making you smash your personal cranium right into a wall and rip your personal eyeballs out.