The Next Movie From Talk to Me’s Directors Already Looks Incredibly Creepy

A24 and the director duo behind the 2023 horror film Talk To Me released a teaser trailer for their upcoming film, and it looks just as frighteningly disturbing as you’d expect.

Much like Talk To Me, Bring Her Back, directed by Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, is a horror film about people messing with the occult. The story follows a brother and sister as they uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. In the minute-long trailer, a distant banging and moaning from behind a door interplays throughout, as we see disparate glances of the film’s sequestered home atmosphere. Things  starts out innocuous enough with scenes of a cat eating from its food bowl (triggering the “Oh no, they’re totally gonna kill her” response from every pet owner), a camcorder zooming in on a girl with a mark under her eye, a child looming outside and atop a cabin, and a funeral procession. All unnerving visuals when put together, sure, but things go from perturbing to visceral as the trailer nears its close.

The aforementioned banging and moaning escalates to full-throated whimpers and screams as the trailer reveals more disturbing glimpses of the horrors the film has in store. Among them are scenes of a child convulsing on the ground as if something is about to burst from its stomach, grainy footage of an emaciated woman side-eyeing the camera, and a naked man approaching a woman standing in the middle of a ritualistic circle. All in all, Bring Her Back looks like a horrific time (affectionate) and begs the question what is it that the film’s weird ritual is trying to bring back exactly. You can check out the teaser trailer below.

Written by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman, Bring Her Back stars actors Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, Mischa Heywood, and Sally Hawkins of The Shape of Water fame.

In our review for Talk To Me, we lauded the film as an “almost perfect horror franchise starter, writing, “Talk To Me pulls no punches. When it’s good, scary, and violent, it’s very good, very scary, and very violent. In those moments, you watch it and feel like maybe, just maybe, you’re watching one of the next great horror franchise being born.” Hopefully the Youtuber-turned director duo’s sophmore effort’s doesn’t peter out in its third act like Talk To Me did.

Bring Her Back releases in theaters on May 30th.

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