Speaker 1: Hey, the folks. It is Sunday, October twenty sixth and
Speaker 1: number six on our horror hit list. Well it's from
Speaker 1: a couple of directors who actually already have a movie
Speaker 1: on our horror hit list. And with that, welcome to
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ. We continue our deep cuts.
Speaker 1: We count down our favorite horror movies that maybe you
Speaker 1: haven't heard of as we get close to Halloween now
Speaker 1: just days away. Robes, this one is impressive. This is
Speaker 1: one of our favorite horror movies in recent years. And
Speaker 1: this was such a shocking and pleasing delight because this
Speaker 1: was not your standard horror movie.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: I was so scared, and I think when you watch
Speaker 3: as many horror movies as we do, to say I
Speaker 3: was so scared, there's a high threshold and this one
Speaker 3: meets it, and I would say exceeds it because I
Speaker 3: had to look away a couple of times because I
Speaker 3: was too scared.
Speaker 2: To keep watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll get into that. Yeah, there are some
Speaker 1: moments in this one, but it creeps you out, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of a ghost story, but it does have
Speaker 1: some pretty horrific stuff in there as well. But the
Speaker 1: movie we are talking about is talk to Me is
Speaker 1: number six on our horror hit list. Talk to Me,
Speaker 1: and this is the one I said Robes like. At
Speaker 1: the time we saw this movie, we were saying publicly,
Speaker 1: this young lady needs to get an oscar. We will
Speaker 1: talk to you about her performance, but talk to me.
Speaker 1: As the movie was released just in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: It's a horror mystery thriller. It's an hour thirty five
Speaker 3: minutes right there in this week spot. And here's the
Speaker 3: synopsis if you haven't heard. When a group of friends
Speaker 3: discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they'd
Speaker 3: come hooked on the new thrill until one of them
Speaker 3: goes too far and unleash's terrifying supernatural forces. It's great
Speaker 3: because it starts out at a teen party, right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: You have no idea what's happening. But here's the deal.
Speaker 3: A lot of movies that surround teen parties and have
Speaker 3: teen partiers get a little silly and campy. There is
Speaker 3: nothing about this movie that is silly or campy. This
Speaker 3: is thrilling and uncomfortable and intense.
Speaker 2: Almost all the way.
Speaker 1: Through very uncomfortable. There are several scenes I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: now I don't want to watch again. I know where
Speaker 1: they are if I'm watching that movie, I look away
Speaker 1: at certain parts of this movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so this did extremely well at the box
Speaker 3: office for a budget of just four point five million dollars. What. Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 3: I didn't realize that. Yes, all set in Australia. In
Speaker 3: the directors this is Danny and Michael Philippo, so we
Speaker 3: know that they have now become like horror geniuses and
Speaker 3: this was kind of well, this was their entrance, their
Speaker 3: entree into this genre, and man did they come in
Speaker 3: with a bang. So yeah, four and a half million
Speaker 3: shot in their home country of Australia. They kept it tight,
Speaker 3: but they made almost ninety two million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 1: That's a hit. See, I didn't realize the budget was
Speaker 1: that low. I'm thinking back to the movie. I'm like, Hi,
Speaker 1: the hell did they do that? Did they go? Was
Speaker 1: it the location? Was it incentives? Was it something? But
Speaker 1: that is a this is a good looking movie.
Speaker 2: Yes it is.
Speaker 3: And Sophie Wilde, who we were talking about, who is
Speaker 3: just this exceptional actress. She's also Australian so I think
Speaker 3: they used some local folks, but it the acting is
Speaker 3: and I think this is something that we said about
Speaker 3: their other movie. Obviously, bring her back the acting. They know.
Speaker 2: They don't leave anything behind.
Speaker 3: Every detail is taken care of and actually done to
Speaker 3: the highest quality, including the acting.
Speaker 2: So yes, Sophie Wild.
Speaker 1: Made this movie okay, and it required it required. I
Speaker 1: mean I can't imagine the toll this movie took on
Speaker 1: her personally and emotionally. She had to do so much
Speaker 1: range wise in terms of emotion in this movie. She
Speaker 1: had to play a friend, a brother.
Speaker 2: A grieving daughter.
Speaker 1: She this girl and I didn't know from anything before this.
Speaker 1: I say this girl, this woman, but she plays a
Speaker 1: girl in this movie. She is just dynamic and had
Speaker 1: her ease and ability to cry and convey emotion and
Speaker 1: pain and awe, so good. I can't say it is
Speaker 1: so good. I love this young.
Speaker 3: Lady, Miranda Otto. I didn't know her name, but you
Speaker 3: know her face. She played the mom of the friend,
Speaker 3: a little boy and otis don Gie. So there are
Speaker 3: again a lot of names you won't know, but the
Speaker 3: acting is phenomenal.
Speaker 2: The Rotten Tomato score.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, it's full validation for us. He didn't know
Speaker 3: what it was ninety four percent and the audience score
Speaker 3: eighty three percent. About right too, Yep, because it is
Speaker 3: a little difficult to watch. I actually think that might
Speaker 3: be Now. There were a couple folks it was interesting
Speaker 3: to me. Their complaints were that the second half of
Speaker 3: the movie wasn't as good as the first half, and
Speaker 3: that can be true, and I'd say that's probably true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of build up and intrigue
Speaker 1: and mystery and even tension in that first half that
Speaker 1: second half buckle up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they were acting like it fell off the
Speaker 3: rails at the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just didn't like the way the train was going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got on the wrong train.
Speaker 3: That's a really good way to put it. Not the
Speaker 3: movie for you, Okay, here's the critic consensus. With a
Speaker 3: gripping story and impressive practical effects, talk to me spins
Speaker 3: a terrifically creepy twenty first century horror yarn built on
Speaker 3: classic foundation.
Speaker 1: Boom. That's right, it's a ghost, it's a creepy story,
Speaker 1: and they found a new way to tell it. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: These guys, the masters of modern horror is what they're
Speaker 1: described as. These brothers and hell yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 3: At this point, anything they put out you will go
Speaker 3: see without even looking at a review.
Speaker 1: If they tell me they are doing a Smurf's remake,
Speaker 1: I'll show it.
Speaker 2: That's how good it is. All right.
Speaker 3: Here are some of the critic reviews, and honestly, they
Speaker 3: were all pretty glowing. The critic reviews were I don't
Speaker 3: think I saw one negative one. What hits hardest is
Speaker 3: the intense scenes of violence. I was squirming in my
Speaker 3: seat in a lot of scenes, and the movie holds
Speaker 3: onto those moments for.
Speaker 2: A little longer than most.
Speaker 3: It's like a more sadistic Evil Dead movie.
Speaker 1: The shower scene, the boy in the hospital, I wanted
Speaker 1: that to end. Stop this. There's a teen that was
Speaker 1: he played fourteen years old or something. When you see
Speaker 1: this kid, what they put this kid through in this movie.
Speaker 3: I'm leaning back right now and holding my face because
Speaker 3: I'm remembering and recalling.
Speaker 2: All right, here's another critic.
Speaker 3: Review Sophie Wilde's outstanding performance and the film's genuinely impressive
Speaker 3: VFX are worth the price of entry alone.
Speaker 2: Visual effects.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, yeah, you're right. So I'm still thinking about
Speaker 1: the four million whatever in the budget, because nothing in
Speaker 1: it looks like it was done half ass.
Speaker 2: No, nothing they've done has looked like that. So here, Okay.
Speaker 3: The first half is as compelling as it gets, effectively
Speaker 3: conjuring horrifying images from the underworld and scarier yet the
Speaker 3: troubled souls of the bereave.
Speaker 1: Yes. Oh that's good. You these scary people. You sympathize
Speaker 1: with it. I don't know if that was the point,
Speaker 1: but it made for a very dynamic. You didn't want
Speaker 1: to you want to look away up the horror, but
Speaker 1: you're curious about what this person's going through with these ghosts.
Speaker 1: If you will. Oh my god, now I'm appreciating it more.
Speaker 1: Listening to the reviews, You're gonna love this next one.
Speaker 3: Imagine an early M Night Shyamalan movie such as The
Speaker 3: Sixth Sense, stripped of all the director's fuzzy optimism and
Speaker 3: belief in serendipity, and you're starting to grab the mood
Speaker 3: of talk to me.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe this is what these brothers do. You're right,
Speaker 1: there is some hope or some family dynamic, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna make it to the end together. Kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: We have to come together with m Night Chamalan. These
Speaker 1: directors did not go to the M. Knight Chamalan school
Speaker 1: of horror movie making exactly.
Speaker 2: You know what, it's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I do believe that they've taken some
Speaker 3: of the best of what's come before them and put
Speaker 3: this amazing, sadistic twist on it.
Speaker 2: That works.
Speaker 1: What ghost story? Teen drama, teens behaving badly, doing something
Speaker 1: they shouldn't do, and get in trouble. It adds all
Speaker 1: of those things. It's a ghost story like you've never seen.
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, audience reviews. Every moment of building tension
Speaker 3: would leave me questioning what was about to happen and
Speaker 3: whether it was what I feared what happened or not.
Speaker 3: It would still shock me. Just a simple concept executed flawlessly.
Speaker 1: Yes, these brothers are now have developed and their other
Speaker 1: movie as well. Talked to me. Things happen to where
Speaker 1: you're nervous about what they're going to do to you next, Yes,
Speaker 1: like oh shit, here we go. Yep, yeah that happens.
Speaker 3: So this next one actually made me laugh. My nightmares
Speaker 3: have nightmares about this movie. So nicely done.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's about right.
Speaker 2: Oh, here's another one.
Speaker 3: Creative originally original storytelling and scary as hell.
Speaker 2: If you've ever lost.
Speaker 3: Someone extremely important to you, it will resonate on a
Speaker 3: deeper level. How far would you be willing to go
Speaker 3: to communicate one more time with the loved one you lost?
Speaker 3: Would you put the live of lives of others at risk?
Speaker 3: Intense gripping film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something we No matter how ridiculous a lot
Speaker 1: of horror movies can be. In plots, there's always usually
Speaker 1: one scenario. You look next to the person, what would
Speaker 1: you do? Right?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: This is one of those things where this is a
Speaker 1: deeper This is not it would you go in that
Speaker 1: room or not? No, this is would you do that?
Speaker 1: Would you make that sacrifice if you could talk to
Speaker 1: that person one more time?
Speaker 2: Would you risk the Yes?
Speaker 1: It's interesting.
Speaker 3: Oooh all right, I've got a bad review and this
Speaker 3: one for me was a WTF But I wanted to
Speaker 3: include it because I wanted to get your reaction. While
Speaker 3: I can see the appeal to a small segment of
Speaker 3: the horror click Talk to Me was nothing more than
Speaker 3: a ninety minute parable about guilt and not dealing with
Speaker 3: one's abandonment issues. The first act is unreasonably long winded,
Speaker 3: with expository about characters that we ultimately don't care about.
Speaker 2: Their shallow, thoughtless and boring.
Speaker 3: So much more could have happened with a minimum of effort,
Speaker 3: But then that's all the filmmakers gave this one minimum effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry for that. That person's going through something.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this as a joke, but that seems
Speaker 1: like a very personal take on a movie, Like everything
Speaker 1: you saw is going through whatever lens you have of
Speaker 1: what's going on in your world and how things should be,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't necessarily hear a review of the acting necessarily.
Speaker 1: It's all seemed personal and mean. And what was the
Speaker 1: first line? Small?
Speaker 3: What was he could see the appeal to a small
Speaker 3: segment of the horror click?
Speaker 2: It made how much ninety two million dollars?
Speaker 1: Stop?
Speaker 3: Yes, and this is arguably like you could not like it.
Speaker 3: But to say that, it's like to say that it's
Speaker 3: like just boring and effortless, that.
Speaker 2: Is just mean.
Speaker 1: That's something else.
Speaker 3: Clearly, this is a well reviewed and exceptional movie that
Speaker 3: you might not like. Yeah, that's fine, and that's okay.
Speaker 3: But to say it's not made well, to say it's
Speaker 3: not made with fought that's insane.
Speaker 1: Fine, if you don't like it, the suggestion here that
Speaker 1: you don't respect it means we shouldn't take you seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to stop. Yes, and has their opinion, but
Speaker 1: that's personal. What was that? Right?
Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting when people go and just put.
Speaker 2: Out whatever they.
Speaker 3: Well, I can see the appeal to a small segment
Speaker 3: of the horror Click Talk to me was nothing more
Speaker 3: than a ninety minute parable guilt and not dealing with
Speaker 3: one's abandonment issue.
Speaker 1: So terrible about guilt and not dealing with abandoned to men?
Speaker 1: What are you supposed?
Speaker 2: What? I know? How did did they watch the same
Speaker 2: movie we did?
Speaker 1: No, they have gone through something in their lives that
Speaker 1: makes them see everything through a particular len projection. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've learned a lot about that in the past several years,
Speaker 1: So I'm not mad. I'm just curious about what that
Speaker 1: person's going right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: But you know what we're gonna tell you when we
Speaker 3: come back, why this film made our list, who it's for,
Speaker 3: who it's not for, what to pairl with, and a
Speaker 3: peek into how we will begin our Top five. Welcome
Speaker 3: back to this edition. Of Amy and TJ. This is
Speaker 3: our Halloween Horror hit list, and we are already wow
Speaker 3: at number six we are talking about talk to me.
Speaker 3: This has been one of our favorite movies of all time,
Speaker 3: and that's of course why it is so high on
Speaker 3: our list. But my god, I haven't seen a movie
Speaker 3: like this. I have nothing to compare it to.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm only compared to this, not in terms
Speaker 1: of what it was. It's for a storyline. Insidious was
Speaker 1: before Conjuring, or Conjuring was before Insidious. I can't remember when.
Speaker 1: I can't honestly answer that I'm gonna go with Insidious
Speaker 1: because I remember when that movie came out. It was
Speaker 1: so new and fresh and different. It was a fresh
Speaker 1: entry into horror, and we're not used to seeing things
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, give us something new to
Speaker 1: look forward to, or something new to see. Which one
Speaker 1: was fright?
Speaker 3: Insidious was twenty eleven, the Conjuring was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: I'll be damned. Okay, So I guess I'm thinking about it, right.
Speaker 1: I remember when Insidious came on board. As much as
Speaker 1: we love horror movies, wow, this is new and fresh
Speaker 1: and different. This isn't like the others talk to me
Speaker 1: was that it was not like the others, And I
Speaker 1: didn't know about these brothers who direct, But now to
Speaker 1: see and to put together and to see their other movie,
Speaker 1: there's a new age, a new line of thought even
Speaker 1: and care and acting and expectation of horror movies. Now
Speaker 1: that I do, I'll go back to Insidious. It kind
Speaker 1: of changed things and expectations that we have for we
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you and me, Yes, expectations.
Speaker 3: For horror movie fans. So it's not it doesn't have
Speaker 3: to just be a one trick pony. And I think
Speaker 3: that's what we've seen over the last oh my god decade,
Speaker 3: at least more.
Speaker 1: So Go this year. Yeah, Weapons, Sinners, Bloodlines, with the
Speaker 1: final Destination, it's been a batner.
Speaker 3: It's run the Gama and they've been amazing and it's
Speaker 3: been really exciting.
Speaker 2: Yes, so why it made our list?
Speaker 3: Yet? This movie is gripping from the start. We've obviously
Speaker 3: talked about the amazing oscar Worthy performance of Sophie Wild.
Speaker 3: It's just scary as hell with great storytelling. Just there's
Speaker 3: not I can't think of one negative thing other than
Speaker 3: maybe it lingered a little too long on some really
Speaker 3: disturbing scenes, and you know what.
Speaker 1: That made the movie. That's not a criticism of the
Speaker 1: movie for me, that's just a personal preference, right, please make.
Speaker 2: It and discomfort.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, no one's watching horror movies to feel
Speaker 3: happy and light. You know, No, there's a there's a
Speaker 3: reason you're wanting to feel that intensity and that thrill.
Speaker 3: So okay, that was comedy for who is this for?
Speaker 3: Anyone who wants to be scared like this is genuinely scary,
Speaker 3: Be prepared to have to hide your eyes, be prepared
Speaker 3: for a couple of really tough scenes because they go there.
Speaker 2: Like you're thinking, oh, they're not going to go there.
Speaker 3: They go there and then they stay there.
Speaker 1: And it's not gratuitous, it's not I never saw anything.
Speaker 1: Is that this is over the top? Is too much?
Speaker 1: Why they have to do? No, no, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: just a choice, and it's powerful. I get it.
Speaker 2: And then so who it's not for?
Speaker 3: If you if supernatural stuff creeps you out, stay the
Speaker 3: hell away from this. And if you don't want anything
Speaker 3: too intense, if you're looking for that light, fun, blackening,
Speaker 3: you know kind of movie. This is the frame joke
Speaker 3: laughter in the movie, No, because not only is it
Speaker 3: intensely scary, there's also just intense themes about death, about you.
Speaker 1: Know, friendships, relationships, family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it all comes into questions.
Speaker 1: I think of one joke, a one moment like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that was funny. I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I don't think it ever lets up.
Speaker 3: The intensity is just full blast, full throttle.
Speaker 1: There's one scene and we're not giving anything away where
Speaker 1: they're doing their thing, the kids before things get crazy
Speaker 1: to where they're having fun with it and some silly
Speaker 1: things happen. I think maybe that even those silly things
Speaker 1: are a.
Speaker 2: Little it's still ominous.
Speaker 3: Like you knew it was a harbinger of what was
Speaker 3: to come, and it was going to be a lot worse.
Speaker 3: Like yes, you when you were watching them party and
Speaker 3: enjoy the initial supernatural pops that they were getting, you
Speaker 3: were kind of laughing along with them, but you knew
Speaker 3: it was going to end really badly, so you were
Speaker 3: on edge.
Speaker 1: It's kids playing spin the bottle at an event, right,
Speaker 1: Think of that, Yes, kids are together playing spin the bottle.
Speaker 1: Parents are gone. That's alcohol flowing. Something's gonna happen. Think
Speaker 1: of that scenario, but with supernatural.
Speaker 3: Elements, what could possibly go wrong? So, given the intensity
Speaker 3: of the movie with the food drink pairing, I think
Speaker 3: you should keep it simple, Like.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking popcorn is cool now.
Speaker 3: I was also trying to keep with the Australian theme
Speaker 3: because this is set in Australia, Australian filmmakers, Australian actress.
Speaker 3: But kangaroo and vegamite just did not sound like something
Speaker 3: anyone would want to actually, so that's ridiculous and unreasonable.
Speaker 3: So I was thinking, like chicken or shrimp on the barbie,
Speaker 3: a Foster's beer could be a fun addition, right, So
Speaker 3: just keep maybe just throw a little Australian theme to it,
Speaker 3: but nothing too intense, like, yeah, who doesn't love chicken
Speaker 3: on the barbie?
Speaker 1: You know? I dark liquor, bourbon on the rocks, get
Speaker 1: your Scotch. You're gonna need a stiff drink at some point, a.
Speaker 3: Shot of whatever dark liquor with your fosters to chase
Speaker 3: it down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is absolutely a forty oh, no eighty proof
Speaker 1: and above movie.
Speaker 3: It's intense, folks. Don't say we didn't warn you. This
Speaker 3: is on HBO Max also Paramount Plus, so you can
Speaker 3: if you have Hulu or Prime and you've got that
Speaker 3: Paramount Plus edition, which of course we do.
Speaker 2: You can watch on either of those.
Speaker 3: So our next episode this will actually be starting out
Speaker 3: our top five, so number five on the list. It's
Speaker 3: an oldie, but a goodie. I would even say it
Speaker 3: was an indie sleeper hit that might have become more
Speaker 3: popular recently just because of streaming services. But you and
Speaker 3: I connected on this movie way back when it was
Speaker 3: one of the original movies. We were like, Wow, you
Speaker 3: like that too, because for me before streaming, if you
Speaker 3: had seen this movie oh and loved it for nearly
Speaker 3: twenty years, you're a true horror fan.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's kind of what we had said this.
Speaker 1: I am very excited to talk about this one with everybody.
Speaker 1: And you're right, this might be the first movie that
Speaker 1: I realized, Okay, Amy Robosa, she's a real one. This
Speaker 1: might be the one.
Speaker 3: It's true that is. This is a litmus test, So
Speaker 3: I'll give you one more hints. I hope this doesn't
Speaker 3: go too far to the movie.
Speaker 1: It probably is if you have to set it up
Speaker 1: that way. If you think it does, it's not.
Speaker 3: There are plenty of this movie of movies this could
Speaker 3: go apply to it will take you to depths you
Speaker 3: never thought you'd go now.
Speaker 1: So you know you're trying to be too clever.
Speaker 3: And with that, everyone I made Robock alongside DJ Holmes,
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon.