![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, they bring so much energy and macabre inventiveness to the action that most audiences will be too unsettled to notice.Ī case in point is a zippy montage of the core characters taking turns with the hand over the course of one especially wild night. But the filmmakers show disappointingly little interest in exploring the social phenomenon of cool currency at any price. This raises intriguing issues about a terminally bored youth culture driven to increasingly dangerous extremes to get their kicks and impress their peers. While supposedly watching the clock, they film each gross-out episode to share on social media. The script’s sharpest idea is making these brief possessions an addictive high, not just for the person experiencing spiritual transmission - their eyes dilating and their features transforming into a ghoulish mask as they spew cryptic messages - but for the spectators in the room, shrieking with laughter. Of course, that inevitably means someone’s going to tempt fate by exceeding the limit. But the owners of the hand warn that 90 seconds is the maximum anything beyond that is an invitation to the supernatural occupant to stick around for good. Clutching what’s allegedly the severed hand of a powerful medium, embalmed and encased in ceramic, they contact the dead, initially with the phrase “Talk to me,” before proceeding to “I let you in” for full possession. The main attraction at that get-together is not the usual teen pleasures of alcohol, drugs and sex, but spiritual conjuring. ![]() But that makes it easy for Riley, who’s 14, to tag along with Jade and Mia to a party. Given the distance that’s opened up between her and her father Max (Marcus Johnson) since that loss, she spends much of her time at Riley’s house, with his big sister Jade (Alexandra Jensen) and their flinty, no-BS mother Sue (Miranda Otto), who works nights and trusts them to act responsibly. It’s the anniversary of Mia’s mother’s apparent suicide. Mia is badly shaken to find a half-dead kangaroo on the road, its agonized groans prompting Riley to beg her to put the animal out of its misery. There’s also a more subtle foreshadowing of what’s to come as 17-year-old Mia (Sophie Wilde) and her surrogate younger brother Riley (Joe Bird) are speeding along, singing at the top of their lungs to Sia’s “Chandelier” when the car hits something. The script by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman is in no rush to show how the shocking prologue events connect to the main characters, but it becomes clear soon enough. Screenwriters: Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman, based on a concept by Daley Pearson Venue: Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale Special)Ĭast: Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto, Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio, Marcus Johnson, Alexandria Steffensenĭirectors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou ![]()
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