Within the 2022 A24 film Discuss to Me, youngsters uncover a cursed plaster hand that permits spirits to own anybody who grasps it. Regardless of realizing that it leads on to Hell, and regardless of realizing that opens them as much as all kinds of evil, the kids grasp it anyway, resulting in all kinds of horrible, horrible issues.
Apparently, Discuss to Me administrators Danny and Michael Philippou are youngsters at coronary heart, as a result of they’ve determined to shake arms with Mark Zuckerberg and create a six-part sequel sequence to Discuss to Me for Meta VR. In accordance with Selection, the sequence shall be shot solely “in 3D, making for a totally immersive XR expertise that may permit horror followers to really feel like they’re dwelling out the fear,” full with what an announcement quoted within the article describes as “cutting-edge blended actuality know-how to map viewers’ environments and immerse them within the story.”
Beneath all the hype and techno babble, it’s exhausting to not really feel upset in regards to the Philippous’ determination. Sure, the New Zealand-born twins began their profession making movies for YouTube, and it isn’t an enormous leap from there to Fb and Meta. However with Discuss to Me and particularly their follow-up Carry Her Again from earlier this yr, the twins proved that that they had the power to create complicated characters, not simply gory shocks. Each movies may need scenes of younger individuals having really unspeakable issues occur to their faces (a uncommon and welcome case of cinematic childhood endangerment accomplished proper!), however additionally they craft well-observed and emotionally-rich protagonists to floor the grisly subject material.
With that in thoughts, it’s one thing of a reduction to be taught that the Philippous gained’t truly be making any of the episodes of the sequence. All six shall be written by Trent Atherton, who created the sequence with Darren Brandl, and shall be directed by William Macneill. As of but, there’s no phrase on the solid.
