There's a new party game Hayley (Zoe Terakes) and Joss (Chris Alosio) have introduced among their friend, which basically has whoever-it-is touch a mystic ceramic hand and this way get in touch with the soul of someone dead - something that fascinates young Mia (Sophie Wilde) to no end when her best friend Jade's (Alexandra Jensen) little brother Riley (Joe Bird) this way gets in touch with Mia's dead mother, whose suicide Mia has never managed to come to terms with. Thing is, upon Mia's insistance, Riley stays in touch with the dead longer than recommended and gets drawn into a brutal netherworld where he's tortured, so much so that he tries to violently take his life in the real world, harms himself almost beyond repair and can only survive heavily sedated - much to the distress of Mia of course, who finds out that there are some evil forces at work that have been summoned along with her mother (or even instead of her mother), forces that can only be gotten rid of by using extreme measures ...

Now this is a film that might not actually re-invent the horror genre, but it takes an old horror staple - talking to the dead - and puts a pretty fresh spin on it, in the process managing to surprise even genre-savvy audiences. And a relatable cast and a direction that doesn't exactly shy away from the ugly bits and places all the jump scares at all the right places make this into a pretty cool genre ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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