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[TALK-TO-ME]
FILM№ 01
Australian horror found an audience and now it has to decide what to do with it
Talk to Me proved Australian horror could sell globally, and the pipeline behind it is filling with directors who watched that and took notes.
BRONTE HAUGHEY14.05.2025
ESSAYS№ 02
Australian cinema in 2024 was everywhere and nowhere at the same time
The year's biggest Australian film cost half a billion dollars and the year's best cost seven million, and nobody quite knew how to hold both in the same sentence.
MARA DENG10.12.2024
ESSAYS№ 03
The Philippou brothers came from YouTube and brought the algorithm's pacing with them
Danny and Michael Philippou learned to direct by keeping strangers watching for three more seconds, and that instinct is the engine underneath Talk to Me.
MARA DENG14.08.2024
MUSIC№ 04
Cornel Wilczek scored Talk to Me like a party that will not let you leave
The score pushes forward with the momentum of a YouTube video you cannot close, and that restlessness is the whole engine.
KIERAN BOUSTANY22.06.2023
FILM№ 05
Talk to Me found Australian horror's nerve and held it
The Philippou brothers built a horror film out of YouTube pacing and Adelaide geography, and the combination should not work as well as it does.
BRONTE HAUGHEY16.05.2023
ESSAYS№ 06
Australian horror found its voice by refusing to be polite
From The Babadook to Relic to Talk to Me, Australian horror keeps returning to the house, the family, and the thing that should not be let in.
MARA DENG22.11.2022