Talk to Me fits right along with the recent trend of moralizing horror like Hereditary, The Babadook, and Relic. The issue I had with this film (and Hereditary) is the inability of the storytellers to choose whether they want to talk about grief or scare you. The film looks good is pretty much all I can give it and the preformers are certainly committed. The film fails to emotionally mine the grief of Riley in any meaningful way. It also didnt scare me. The more I think about it this just feels like a padded out evil dead with none of the scares and humor. What makes The Evil Dead so perfect is that it knows what it wants to be. The characters aren't fleshed out, and they don't have to be. The effect ends up being you put yourself in Ash's shoes and then begin to realize how horrible the situation truly is. It wasn't trying to explore trauma and tie it up with a neat bow.