Pandora's Hand - Talk to Me (2023)

     This season of ScaryCrit keeps coinciding with some must-watch horror releases and we'd be remiss if we didn't take full advantage! This week's episode is no different as we grab hold of A24's horror feature Talk to Me (2023), having seen it on its opening night. We think that Talk to Me is a unique film in that it operates parallel to your typical possession horror flick (which makes for some unforgettable results).

     Listen in as we unpack that as well as the Philippou bros.'s direction (and career beginnings), the bystander effect and what it means to bear witness in regards to social media as a narrative device, the jarring juxtaposition in framing possession as a party game, and Mia's intense and lonely bout as a grieving protagonist.

    This episode might be a long one but we'd like to think it's quite gripping all the same. So, take our hand and let us guide you straight into another stellar episode of ScaryCrit! You're not going to be able to let go of this one.

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Timestamps
00:10:38 - Negronomicon
00:39:28 - Crit
02:14:04 - Final Curls

Gems from E93

• Grey House (2019, play)
• She-Hulk (2023)
• Orphan Black (2013)
• Avenue Q (2003, play)
• Saw X (2023)
• Saw (2004)
• Saw IV (2007)
• Saw V (2008)
• Spiral (2021)
• Jigsaw (2017)
• Saw VI (2009)
• Saw 3D (2010)
• Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (delayed indefinitely)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, video game)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017, video game)
• Barbie (2023)
• Titans (2018)
• Selling Sunset (2019)
• The Real Housewives (2006)
• Teen Mom (2009)
• Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta (2012)
• Project Greenlight: A New Generation (2023)
• Evil Dead Rise (2023)
• Insidious: Red Door (2023)
• Talk to Me (2023)
• Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
• Beau is Afraid (2023)
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
• Mid90s (2019)
• Hereditary (2018)
• Zola (2021)
• Moonlight (2016)
• The Babadook (2014)
• Annabelle (2014)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• Insidious (2010)
• Veronica (2017)
• The Conjuring (2013)
• Rocky (1976)
• The Sadness (2021)
• Euphoria (2019)
• Oculus (2013)
• Unfriended (2014)
• Nope (2022)
• The Ring (2002)
• Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001)
• Oppenheimer (2023)
• They Cloned Tyone (2023)
• Sweet Magnolias (2020)
• And Just Like That (2022)
• A Thousand and One (2023)
• Deadstream (2022)