This story is going to get into spoilers for the new A24 horror film Talk to Me, so stop reading now if you don’t want to know anything about the plot. And seriously, go see this movie right now ...

Talk to Me is a supernatural horror film from Australia, and it was the directorial debut of YouTubers and stunt performers ...

In this movie summer of screaming pink (”Barbie”) and flaming orange (”Oppenheimer”), is there psychic and aesthetic room for a dour, low-lit Australian horror film about demonic possession?

Grab the hand, say the words “talk to me” and suddenly you’re in touch, violently, with a particular evil spirit. You have 90 seconds to unclasp, or the spirit makes the jump to the real world.

“Talk to Me,” a crafty debut feature from the brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, makes an unnerving case for the answer to that question in the affirmative. The premise has elevator-pitch ...