Too many horror movies tend to do this these days; relying mostly on shock content and the grossest violence they can think of. And this film doesn't even do a great job of that. While some great horror films have been able to pull this off, like Event Horizon or The Fly, this film isn't one of them. Disturbing violence has to be backed up with substance in a film. You have to care about the characters and why it's happening to them. Talk to Me doesn't bother with much of that. We're just supposed to be assaulted by loud jump scares and sudden graphic self-made injuries on screen and be disturbed and upset. Very poor, lazy writing.

I was disappointed with A24 here. And Australia. Hereditary and The Babadook are two of my favorite horror films of all time. So when I saw the ad for this I thought that sure the plot seems silly, its an adams family thing hand that some kids got ahold of that lets them contact spirits, but I was sure the writers had created a good complex plot with psychological horror happening to good, well written characters. They didn't. And when I learned shortly before viewing it was co-written by RuckaRucka, the guys who make youtube videos of Ronald McDonald pointlessly killing people in the most gruesome ways possible, I guess I should've known better.

To each his own when it comes to what scares you in a horror movie, but I hold A24 to a much higher standard than this.