Talk to Me, perhaps the first Australian horror movie since Jennifer Kent's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: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 so🏅mething 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 , w🗹hich is out on newsstands on Thursday, June 22.
"I saw with Jen onꦓ that film… I knew it would be good because she cared so much about every frame. She wasn't there for a paycheque. She wanted to make the best film possibl🌺e and everything meant so much to her. I love this and that's the energy I wanted to have with ours as well."
Kent's Babadook centers on a wido🅰wed single mother (Essie Davis) struggling to raise her troubled son – a task that becomes all the more difficul🥂t when he becomes convinced of a monster's presence in their home. The Philippous' outing, however, revolves around a group of teens who find out the hard way why you shouldn't conduct a séance at a boozy party.
Mia (Sophia Wilde), having not long lost her mother, is particularly keen to converse with those on the other side – though the spirits they manage to contact turn out to be anything but friendly. Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Djanji, Zoe Terakes, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lord of the Rings' Miranda Otto round out the supporting cast.
Elsewhere in the interview, the duo named Wilಞliam Friedkin's The Exorcist as another source of inspiration. "It's such a cliché answer, but [it] is so incredible," says Danny. "Those characters don't feel like film characters, they feel like real people."
Talk to Me releases on July 28 in the UK and US, and this is just a snippet of our interview in the new is⛦sue of , which features Net🦩flix thriller Heart of Stone on the cover. The magazine hits shelves this Thursday, June 22. Check out the covers below:
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