Talk to Me’s directors are extremely down to start a new TikTok possession trend

polygon.com:

For anyone who’s terminally online, it’s just about impossible to watch Danny and Michael Philippou’s debut horror movie Talk to Me without thinking, This is a million memes in the making. The Philippous — the Australian twins behind the billion-view RackaRacka channel on YouTube — themed their graphically bloody, thrill-focused A24 horror movie around the idea of possession as a party game, a source for nervy dares and exciting online videos. Given Talk to Me’s “scariest movie of 2023” reputation and that party-game structure, it seems inevitable that it’s going to spark a trend of YouTubers and TikTokers posting their own gleeful spins on the movie’s story.

And the directors are more than down for it. Speaking with Polygon, they both light up when presented with the possibility of fans making “I tried the Talk to Me trick and got possessed” TikToks in the spirit of the Grimace Shake.

“Oh my God, I would love to see that!” Danny says. “I think that that’s so fun, to run with a film, doing your own versions, and wanting to reenact a horror sequence and being creative — I’d be excited to see that!”

In Talk to Me, a group of Australian teenagers acquire a plaster hand covered with threatening graffiti, supposedly containing the actual preserved hand of a medium. By lighting a candle, grasping the hand, and saying “Talk to me,” a participant makes contact with a supernatural force. If they follow up by saying “I let you in,” that force seizes control of their body until the candle is blown out.

The process works every time — the movie never dodges the question of whether the supernatural is real. So it becomes a party game, where young people take turns being possessed while everyone else present laughs, comments, and