Horror Weekly News: Talk to Me picked up by A24. The Last Voyage of Demeter sails into theatres in August.

 Talk to the hand takes a whole new meaning in A24’S latest horror movie. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, TALK TO ME was well-received by critics and spurred a bidding war with A24 finally winning the rights to distribute the film. 

Talk to Me is about Mia who has recently lost her mother. After she comes across videos of parties where guests participate in games that let them talk to people from the other side. 

Mia manages to convince her friend to attend such a party and volunteers the first one to go. 

All she has to do is light a candle, touch an embalmed hand for ninety seconds, and say: TALK TO ME. 

Cue flickering lights and doors being forcefully closed. Mia believes she has made contact with her mother and according to the trailer, has kept the embalmed hand so she can feel her mother’s presence again. 

But clearly, something is off and she finds herself and her friends, victims of a terrifying haunting. The question is, did Mia remember to close the door to the other side? 

The movie currently holds a rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Starring Sophie Wilde and Alexandra Jensen, the movie is slated to release on 28th July. 

The trailer is available to watch on Youtube

 

In other news…

Have you ever wondered how Dracula made it to England? 

He took a ship and hid among the cargo. But when the ship eventually reached its destination, most of the crew had perished and only the Captain remained. 

So just what happened on that ship? 

Based on a chapter from the 1897 novel DRACULA, THE LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER reveals what exactly happened on that journey from Carpathia to London. 

The trailer shows a man called Clemens joining the voyage on the ship Demeter. He is a doctor who manages to impress the crew with his knowledge of ships. 

There is a dog on the ship called Huckleberry and although it doesn’t get much screen time in the trailer, no doubt he is of importance to the story considering that in the novel, a dog was seen jumping off the ship. 

Eventually the crew learns that something in the cargo-hold has been feeding on all the livestock. Clemens finds bite marks on the animals’ necks and fears the worst. 

The crew begins to believe there is a literal devil on board and soon after we see a winged creature attacking everyone. 

Considering that none of the crew survived when it reached London according to the novel, it doesn’t seem anyone apart from Clemens is going to see daylight again. 

The movie stars Corey Hawkins and Liam Cunningham. 

The Last Voyage of the Demeter will release on August 11th. 

You can watch the trailer here