"Talk to Me" is that rare horror movie that compelled me to watch it a second time to pick up on what I'd missed. I haven't had that since "Midsommar".

Watching it again, I saw how sleek the production is, how little dead weight it has, and how fast it moves along.

I liked it a lot the first time, and even more so the second. I noticed some subtle touches, such as it happening twice that characters are asked to close doors, but they leave them open.

Is this an allusion to the movie's themes of opening doors to the unknown, and not being able to close them?

They know to say "I let you in", but how about "You can go now"?

The reckless teenagers in the cast don't even think about it.

The séance the characters engage in is actually very reminiscent of experimenting with drugs for the first time. Note the way it happens at parties, mostly around the young, who are scared but intrigued. The guy pulling the embalmed hand out of his backpack where it was hiding reminded me of somebody smuggling a bong into a high-school get together.

And of course the séance, like a drug, takes your sanity. It makes you confused as to who or what is real. And it makes you hurt those close to you, whether meaning to or not.

The blink-and-you'll-miss-it twist ending, was quite shocking to me, and very smart.

I was already going to rewatch the movie before that hit. It really made me want to pay attention.

"Talk to Me" is a horror classic, but get this? It's Australian and so am I. But I had no idea about that going in.

Why don't we big up our own products? I thought that "cultural cringe" crap was supposed to be over in the '90s.