Back yard brotherly pranks, comedic violence and schlock horror morphed into psychological terror when the Australian YouTubers and twins Danny and Michael Philippou unleashed their debut feature Talk To Me on the world two years ago.
The supernatural thriller, about a group of Adelaide teens who get in over their heads while playing a twisted party game, was the surprise hit of 2023: made on a shoestring budget of just US$4.5m, it grossed almost US$100m at the global box office. It became US indie film studio A24’s most successful horror film and scooped up a swathe of Australian and international awards, with the Hollywood Reporter praising the Philippous as a “welcome splash of new blood on the horror landscape”.
