Dumb and gross. I can't believe this is making people's "Top Horror of 2025 Films" lists when it's lacking in nearly every department. Like watching movies where horrible people do gross and horrible things to other people, mostly children? This movie's right up your ally!! People are putting this movie up there with Sinners (FAR SUPERIOR) and even Final Destination 6, which was at least entertaining. This? 90 minutes that are hard to watch due to sheer grossness -- and hard to watch because I kept getting bored. [spoiler] Oh and where's they payoff? If I'm going to sit through 90 minutes of torture and people chewing other people's faces and pulling long strips of their own skin off with their teeth, they could AT LEAST explain more about the ritual. Who did she learn this stuff from? Where was the video taken and did it work for others? It appeared to. So frustrating. Kudos to the kid who played Ollie - he got put through the ringer. [/spoiler]

Really great movie. Wish they went into detail a little bit more about the rituals and whatnot

Quite unsettling. Happy to see that there are still movies that care about acting over special effects. That Laura really pulled off the unpredictability of crazy people. Never knew quite what you were going to get when she comes on screen.

Extremely mixed bag this one. The three main characters were all very well written and performed, with the brother/sister relationship being quite refined, and ofc Hawkin's foster parent role being wonderfully unhinged. Tone and atmosphere were also excellent. That constitutes much of the film which is very much to its credit. Unfortunately though the supernatural elements were devoid of any meaning, plausibility or restraint, with the gratuitous violence inflicted upon a young boy being a serious misstep that stretched far beyond narrative necessity and veered straight into torture porn territory. I love my graphic horrors but only when it serves a true purpose, and here it does not. In many ways this film would have been far more successful as a thriller with all supernatural elements removed, as they literally served no purpose to the story beyond being devices to shock. Whilst many are saying this cements the directors as masters of horror, it has me concerned that that they are 1 1/2 hit wonders.

The _Talk to Me_ directors once again succeed where countless directors have failed - making a horror movie I enjoyed. While there are some familiar horror elements at work, the details make it fresh and the strong execution sells it. Combine that with some of the most disturbingly gruesome set pieces I've ever had the privilege of watching (often times through cracks in my fingers as I covered my eyes), and you come away with a movie likely to spark conversation and inspire nightmares. Even the less gruesome set pieces are masterfully done (e.g., [spoiler]the slow tension building as we watch Sally Hawkins douse herself in Andy's body spray and stand over Piper before the sudden strike - that's the sort of jump scare I can appreciate)[/spoiler]). My one critique is that I feel like they could have done even more with Piper's vision impairment. The idea of something horrifying happening right in front of someone and them not being able to see it has a lot of potential and I feel like they didn't quite mine all of that potential.