
Talk to Me, perhaps the first Australian horror movie since Jennifer Kent's The Babadook to have huge breakout potential, was influenced by its hit predecessor – but not in the way you might think. It wasn't so much that filmmaker brothers Danny and Michael Philippou saw the atmospheric flick and set out to make something similar, it's that they worked on it and wanted to replicate the behind-the-scenes vibes they experienced on its set.
"It's a weird circle," says Michael, who made a name for himself alongside his twin via their YouTube channel RackaRacka, in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, June 22.