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It’s a Lot of Fun to Watch Sally Hawkins Go Evil


The actress both powers and unbalances Bring Her Back, the Philippou brothers’ messy, ambitious follow-up to Talk To Me.

Bad decisions keep the gears of the horror genre turning — where would scary movies be without characters who discover the light switch at the top of the basement stairs isn’t working, then go down into the ominous darkness anyway? In Talk to Me, high-schoolers find an embalmed hand that allows whoever grips it to get possessed by the dead, and they treat it like an awesome party trick rather than proof of an afterlife — an approach so perversely respectful of teen bravado that it deserves a salute. After the sudden death of their father, he plans to become her guardian so that they can get a place together when he turns 18 in a few months, a hope that’s complicated by the fact that an incident from his past has earned him the label of “troubled” and could jeopardize their placement together in foster care.

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