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Speaker 1: Reread the flick with ben o'she on ninety six a FM.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, I'm doing good, very well. How do you

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Speaker 2: feel about scary movies? Look not not my favorite genre,

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Speaker 2: but ask me how I feel about Miranda Otto.

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Speaker 1: Miranda Otto what a legend.

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Speaker 2: I just think she's a fantastic absolute screen icon in

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Speaker 2: Australia and she's in this new scary movie, Ozzie horror

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Speaker 2: film called Talk to Me. And now the three of

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Speaker 2: us are far too old to know anything about the

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Speaker 2: two directors, twin brothers, Danny and Michael Philippoo, who are

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Speaker 2: better known to their millions of YouTube followers as raca

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Speaker 2: Racer right really, so I know, I know, I know

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Speaker 2: what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking.

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Speaker 1: To stay with meat lice.

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Speaker 2: So these these two fellas grew up in Adelaie Racca

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Speaker 2: and Racker, Racer and Racer.

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Speaker 1: I grew up. I don't know what it means. I

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Speaker 1: grew up.

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Speaker 2: We grew up in Adelaide, and in the backyard of

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Speaker 2: their childhood home when they were you know, twelve thirteen fourteen,

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Speaker 2: were making just like homemade videos of them doing wrestling

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Speaker 2: moves and playing jokes on each other. Uploading them to YouTube.

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Speaker 2: They went viral like they went viral because they actually

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Speaker 2: had quite high production values, Like they weren't just your

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Speaker 2: average people who wanted to get on social media to

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Speaker 2: be famous. They were actually kind of like a budding

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Speaker 2: filmmakers and the only platform they had to publish their

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Speaker 2: movies was YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's like Justin bieber Kin't of Story, right, and so

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Speaker 2: very similar with Raka Raka. So they posted a video

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Speaker 2: it is like a mashup of Star Wars and Harry Potter,

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Speaker 2: like the Jedi fighting a wizard with really really pretty

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Speaker 2: impressive special effects. Thirty four million views and six now

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Speaker 2: they've got six point six million subscribers, one and a

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Speaker 2: half billion views, And so when you get that level

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Speaker 2: of popularity, eventually, eventually the movie industry comes knocking, and

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Speaker 2: usually doesn't work out too great because you talk about

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Speaker 2: people who really want social media fame, they're not really

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Speaker 2: serious filmmakers, and the studios just kind of want to

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Speaker 2: leach off their kind of like you know, sort of

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Speaker 2: fame and their followers and hopefully that translates at the

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Speaker 2: box office. Usually doesn't, But in the case of Danny

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Speaker 2: and Michael, who I actually spoke to them last week.

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Speaker 2: They're very down to earth, humble dudes. They don't really

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Speaker 2: believe that they're amazing. And so they wanted to make

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Speaker 2: this horror movie because a lot of the videos they

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Speaker 2: post on YouTube kind of comedy horror kind of vibe,

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Speaker 2: some of them a little confronting, to be honest, But anyway,

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Speaker 2: and so they've got this story about you remember as kids,

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Speaker 2: you'd maybe do a seance if you had a sleepover,

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Speaker 2: you'd have like.

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Speaker 1: The fold up cardboard.

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Speaker 2: Wi everybody did it, right, So it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: tapping into that kind of a vibe, except for the

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Speaker 2: fact it's like a plaster cast of a hand and

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Speaker 2: these group of friends you kind of hold onto the

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Speaker 2: hand and then you say, you know, like you stalk

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Speaker 2: talk to the spirit world, and you can and you

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Speaker 2: ask the spirits to talk to you, and then you

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Speaker 2: can allow the spirit to enter you like a possession,

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Speaker 2: demonic possession of situation. And the movie imagines that this

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Speaker 2: group of friends are doing it almost like a recreational drug.

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Speaker 2: So they sort of take it in turns to be

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Speaker 2: possessed by a spirit and then and then they do

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Speaker 2: it for like ninety seconds and then they let the

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Speaker 2: spirit get cast out and they get this huge rush

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Speaker 2: of eup it just for the buzz. And then while

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Speaker 2: it totally sounds like a TikTok, it might well be

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Speaker 2: on the tickety tock and he knows, and so they

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Speaker 2: and then you see, while they're possessed, you know that

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Speaker 2: the spirit is speaking through them and something about how

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Speaker 2: they died or how they lived or and it's all

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Speaker 2: kinds of weird things that happen. Now as you might expect,

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Speaker 2: things don't go according to plan. Careful what you wish for,

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Speaker 2: but careful what you wish for. And there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of foreshadowing at the start, which is you can't let

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Speaker 2: the spirit be inside you for more than ninety seconds,

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Speaker 2: or you know, you might not want to leave. So

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Speaker 2: I wonder what's going to happen here, And so of

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Speaker 2: course there's some squad and there's there's there's one girl

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Speaker 2: in the group, Mia, played by Sophie Wilde, who's in

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Speaker 2: the show The Portable Door Kids tea Yes up and

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Speaker 2: She's dealing with the trauma of that, so she kind

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Speaker 2: of kind of, you know, maybe leans into the possession

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Speaker 2: so starts to blur the lines between reality and the

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Speaker 2: spirit world and make some bad decisions that lead to

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Speaker 2: her best friend's little brother having a go. The spirit

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Speaker 2: stays inside him for too long, he completely loses the

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Speaker 2: plot and it kind of unfolds from there. Actually some

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Speaker 2: moments that are really quite terrifying, and there's some pretty

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Speaker 2: graphic horror scenes as well, which won't be to everybody's taste.

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Speaker 2: But the interesting thing about this film is so these

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Speaker 2: two dudes, these YouTube stars, they wanted to become filmmakers,

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Speaker 2: so they worked, they interned on film sets. One film

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Speaker 2: set they worked on was The Babaduk. Now, if you

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Speaker 2: remember that, that is a cult Australian horror film, probably

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Speaker 2: the best horror film in Australia for the last ten years,

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Speaker 2: directed by Jennifer Kent, who's amazing. They were so inspired

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Speaker 2: by Jennifer Kent that you can kind of see the

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Speaker 2: fingerprints of that in this That film had Essie Davis.

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Speaker 2: This one's got Miranda Miranda Otto, who plays a mum

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Speaker 1: Of these kids.

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Speaker 2: And so the DNA of the bab Duk is in

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Speaker 2: talk to Me, and I would say talk to Me

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Speaker 2: is probably up there with Babbidok as one of the

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Speaker 2: best oussi horror films of the last decade. If this

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Speaker 2: is the genre that you're into, you're going to really

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Speaker 2: dig this film. It screened at Sundance earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: There was a bidding war between the studios. A twenty

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Speaker 2: four signed it's going to distribute it in the US.

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Speaker 2: So these guys have already been tapped to direct adaptation

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Speaker 2: of the classic video game Street Fighter, which remember they

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Speaker 2: made that movie in the nineties with j and Karli

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Speaker 2: was remember terrible, one of the all time worst movies.

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Speaker 2: And so Raka Raka is going to have a crack

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Speaker 2: at it correct feeling sort of vibes of the guys

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Speaker 2: that did the Saw movie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're moving out of the horror totally.

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Speaker 2: So like, these two dudes are definitely going to be

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Speaker 2: Aussie filmmakers to watch going forward. And this first film,

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Speaker 2: this their first feature, I Reckon, is going to do

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Speaker 1: Okay, they mastered the jump Scared because we love the jumps.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, oh right, how many whacker wackers? How

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Speaker 1: many wrackers are you giving it? I'm going to give

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Speaker 1: this one three and a half. Very nice, very nice

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Speaker 1: if you don't mind getting your pants scared off her.

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Speaker 1: It is a little bit scary. Yeah, Ben days, guys,