More than 25 years ago I suffered a chilling experience when some friends invited me to a party, where initially everything was normal, until through a rite they invoked a spirit, which supposedly would take possession of one of the participants of the meeting.
I almost ran out when I heard this, but my girlfriend kept me inside the room, immediately her brother began to speak in other languages, his face seemed to transform, he threw himself on the floor and at times, believe it or not he seemed to be levitating.
All this happened in the course of almost two minutes, which were very frightening for me, in a claustrophobic environment where the atmosphere was so tense that, as they say, it could be cut with a knife.
I even remembered how in the 70's it was fashionable to find those boards called Quija that were said to be able to open portals with the dead through which people could communicate with them.
After about two minutes, my girlfriend's brother returned to normal and everyone in the meeting commented on what had happened.
Now, thanks to word of mouth, I recently went to the movies with my wife to see an Australian film called Talk to Me, which at the beginning started to look like a typical teenage horror movie, which it is, but soon some nuances began to appear that changed my perception of the film.
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In the film, the way to contact the dead is similar to that of the Ouija, but this time, the object used is an embalmed hand which, when touched and invoking certain words, allows to communicate with the spirits of the afterlife.
The idea is original, although there are moments that in your mind you see it coming from far away. The acting is very good, especially Mia, who makes you feel all the fear. You are literally inside her head with her thoughts and hallucinations for us, but a vivid reality for her. Visually, the film features very good shots, lighting that gets you into the mood and just right special effects.
I was impressed by the slight possessions of the teenagers as the pupils of their eyes instead of dilating increased in size and suddenly their coloration was black.
Riley is the other character that stands out as he is another victim of these evil spirits that manage to take over him by disobeying the rule of not contacting them for more than 90 seconds.
Despite the horror, the film shines in its psychological exploration of the characters, allowing the audience to empathize with figures like Riley and Mia.
The story is gripping enough to hold the audience's interest and attention, relying more on the tension it generates than the gory scenes, which it does have. I must say that the make-up of the dead is very effective and scary.
In the film we see topics such as drug use in adolescence or obsession with viral challenges on social networks.
Mia the protagonist after having made a series of inexplicable actions, pushed by the spirits that possess her internally, has a moment of lucidity and manages to save Riley from a horrible eternity among evil spirits, sacrifices herself for him, concluding the film in an effective but somewhat crude way where a second part is sensed, in which suddenly we delve more into the origins of these stuffed hands, as far as I understood there are two, which serve as a portal to the dead to attract people to their unique world.
The film's directors are brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, known for their YouTube channel RackaRacka. Mia is played by young Australian Sophie Wilde and Riley by young Australian Joe Bird.
As I watched the film, my memories of that meeting where I witnessed a kind of possession came back, and I identified that feeling of anguish that the film was generating in me with those feelings of panic and terror of more than 25 years ago.
The film does its job by mixing psychology with horror, widely recommended, but warning that it is not a film of gratuitous scares.
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