A24’s new horror flick Speak to Me revolves round an embalmed hand that when touched, offers the opposite individual a connection between the worlds of the lifeless and the residing. Within the movie, a bunch of excessive schoolers use the factor at events and file 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.
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Speak 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 certainly one of them being a time he watched his neighbor expertise medication for the primary time. Phillipou recalled seeing that neighbor “[have] a very damaging 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 youngsters 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 severe,” 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 finally “began passing it backwards and forwards. It modified so much 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 remaining model didn’t come till the day its scene was shot. Danny informed 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 tons of of individuals, and been everywhere in the world.”
Speak to Me is in theaters now.
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