The embalmed, ceramic-covered hand in Talk To Me checks a lot of boxes as a standout horror movie prop. It’s super creepy in appearance, and within the film, it comes packaged with both a set of strict, ominous instructions and mysterious origins. It’s a creative and scary invention … and it’s a bit spooky that the filmmakers don’t have tabs on all of the hands that were created for the production.
As featured in the video above, I asked co-directors Danny and Michael Philippou about the whereabouts of the hand earlier this month during the pre-release virtual press day for Talk To Me, and I was surprised by their answer in multiple respects. For starters, they themselves only recently learned that three of the original six hands were broken/destroyed during production (though they don’t recall that happening). The other disquieting revelation is that while they have a hand, and star Sophie Wilde has a hand, the third is “in the abyss somewhere.” In their words,
