Subtle and clever, despite its unpromising premise.

Firstly, I think any film that gets the dialogue right, particularly where teenage parties are involved without creating totally unbelievable characters or boring clichés should be applauded. I found the dialogue and the characters and their relationships so believable, and it really supported the flow of the film rather than distracting from it. Bravo.

The evil at hand (pun intended) seems like a a rehashed ouija, but the film makers create some fun and original dynamics. The usual dynamic with the Ouija is to have a character secretly move the glass or whatever to create suspense and uncertainty. They don't bother with that here, the go their own way, and I'm here for it.

The bad entity and how the characters deal with it has a slightly different approach too. It comes in a lot of different forms and the writers leave a lot of mystery around the motive or motives of the entity/s which enables you to figure it out, although it's probably true that not every aspect is fully explained or answered, leaving room for speculation.

Something that this subgenre often struggles with is why the characters put themselves in danger. Usually it is explained away in two dimensional terms - they are a dare devil, or the daring ones goad the others into it. Whatever it is, I often have trouble buying it. In Talk To Me, a really great blend of a false sense of security, peer pressure, and the allure of social media explains this to us much more effectively. And throughout the film, each decision is carefully afforded a realistic context giving rise to it.

The tension is built very well out of your genuine concern for some of the characters, and overall the characters choices, bad or good, end up being believable in the circumstances of each situation. You might feel annoyed at a character at points, but I mostly had to concede that it was plausible for them to do that in that scene.

I loved it, its not totally ground breaking and as many other reviewers have pointed out it definitely uses plenty of the tried and tested ingredients we've come to know in horror films. Nonetheless I'd argue they did it well, and with a dash of originality.