I did not much about the movie other than what I got from the trailer, like a hand that takes over people with spirits and thinking it would just be a standard possession movie; after watching the movie, I found out that it more than a simple possession movie and it had more to it than I thought. The movie Talk to Me (2023) was a chilling, disturbing, interesting, and creepy horror movie that might be my favorite horror movie of the year 2023 compared to the other horror movies I have seen this year.

Actor Sophie Wilde did a fantastic job playing the main character Mia; you feel bad for her when she is dealing with the loss of her mother from something awful and when she is dealing with the many horrific stuff after interacting with the embalmed hand to conjure spirits. The group teenagers Mia was a part of dealing with the hand was interesting on how they would use it a lot when you do not want them to touch it anymore, especially when stuff goes down as the movie progresses and it starts affecting them in disturbing ways. Also, whenever they decide to group together to use the embalmed hand to conjure spirits like it is a game, it makes you wonder how the hand works and how it can connect the living to the dead whenever they use it.

The embalmed hand is simple looking, but it does have some kind of disturbing look to it so you can fear it whenever it comes on screen; I mostly liked how it worked and how they used it to talk to the spirits or get taken over by them and to end the connection by following certain rules. The movie starts like a normal possession movie, but as the movie progresses it becomes unique and violent in many ways involving the possessions or from misunderstandings from certain things that happen. Also, the designs of the spirits that appear are creepy, disturbing along with cool uses of cinematography to make moments creepy.

The third act climax was interesting and disturbing on how it played out, and the ending was chilling and surprising to watch. Talk to Me (2023) is a horror movie I highly recommend watching for how unique, creepy, disturbing, and interesting the movie is with how the embalmed hand is used to conjure up spirits, but also how the teenagers using the hand can get addicted to something that is not good for them. One of my favorite horror movies is to come out in the year 2023; give it watch when you can because I would like this movie to be talked about and shown to more people so we can more original horror movies like this.