![]() “That was me talking to the audience but not expressing things that I was going through emotionally, or touching on things like mental illness or us losing our grandpa at 13, or suicide being in our family. “I never felt like I could really personally express myself on the YouTube channel - I was so scared of being vulnerable there,” says Danny. Unlike their playful YouTube videos, it was an opportunity to explore horror storytelling as therapy, examining loss, addiction and the isolation that can come out of profound grief. Inspired by an idea from filmmaker friend Daley Pearson about kids getting high on supernatural possession, they poured their own personal themes and experiences into “Talk to Me,” which Danny wrote with longtime collaborator Bill Hinzman. “Even now, we’re obsessed with the paranormal.” “After filming wrapped, the security guard cleared everyone out, and we snuck past and had a slumber party,” says Danny, sporting bleached blond hair, erupting into peals of laughter with his brother. Their morbid curiosity didn’t take a break while shooting their feature debut, “Talk to Me,” in a hospital said to have a haunted wing. ![]() “They restricted the area that you were allowed to go to, but it’s a huge ship and we lost ourselves on the boat,” Michael says with a grin. Speaking to The Times during a recent stopover in Los Angeles, the energetic twins lit up explaining their attraction to haunted places and the night they spent looking for ghosts on the Queen Mary. Not that Aussie YouTubers-turned-filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, both 30, would turn down the chance to party with the undead. Just don’t leave the door open too long, or the adrenaline rush will come at a terrible cost. ![]() In A24’s buzzy Gen-Z supernatural horror-thriller “ Talk to Me,” an embalmed hand is the gateway to the spirit world for thrill-seeking teens, even if Mia (Sophie Wilde), quietly mourning the anniversary of her mother’s death, is looking for more than just a distraction. ![]()
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