One sentence summary: A girl sees an opportunity to communicate with her deceased mother when her friends show her an embalmed hand that has connections to the afterlife.

I feel as if I'm the odd one out on this film, as both critics and the general audience seemed to enjoy it when it was released this past July, but with the amount of subjectivity involved in cinema, not sharing in the majority's opinion happens from time to time. Talk to Me failed to interest me as either a horror or a drama, falling somewhere in the middle where indecision and poor judgment reign supreme. My lack of connection with Sophie Wilde's portrayal of the protagonist Mia didn't help matters, as her character's demeanor was more agitating than it was endearing. In fact, most of the characters in the movie suffered from this issue. The film wasn't without its moments, though, as I was sporadically amused by the script as well as some of the imagery and visual effects, but horror has taken such a dramatic step up in the past decade that I simply won't cut semi-scary, semi-entertaining movies like this much slack.