Talk to Me is another very solid A24 horror film with a lot of good elements, but didn't quite live up to the hype for me. Sophia Wilde is excellent and probably the best part of the film. Miranda Otto is great too and it's nice to see her here, I haven't seen much of what she's done since The Lord of the Rings but I've always thought she was great. The visual design of the movie is really good, very effective scares and camerawork. Good practical makeup effects. It looks very good for its budget.

The supporting cast is decent but some of the characters are a bit one-dimensional and underwritten. They could have done more with at least 5 of them to make them just a little bit more interesting. They way the characters treat the hand and their reactions to some things that happen in the story don't always add up for me. For example they just let Mia walk away with the hand at one point and don't do anything? They mention once that they could destroy the hand but nobody ever tries. It looks like it would break if a possessed person hit it very hard on a table, but this doesn't happen either.

They let themselves get possessed and driven to horrific acts by what seem by the end to be evil demons, and not regular ghosts, but then the final scene negates that entirely when we see a character's ghost getting summoned by a group of people with the hand, inexplicably in another country. How did the hand get there? How did anyone know how to operate the hand in the first place, or that it would do anything? Who's hand was it? Why are the police in this film so incredibly useless? How much control do the demons have?

A character goes to kill someone as a mercy killing, as instructed by the demons, but they also for some reason leave behind another loved one bleeding to death and don't call an ambulance. Another character finds said person bleeding and doesn't call an ambulance either or stay to help. Their fate remains oddly mysterious. A character is removed from a hospital and no alarms go off when they're removed from their monitors. I'm looking forward to the sequel for some answers but the script is very lacking in logic. Overall watchable but pedestrian.