‘Talk To Me’ Directors Discuss YouTube Roots Making Comedy Horror Videos & Their Unconventional Approach To Filmmaking — Comic-Con
21.07.2023 - 01:15
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Talk To Me, the latest horror offering from A24, possessed the Indigo Ballroom at Comic-Con with some exclusive footage and a chat with directors Danny and Michael Philippou.
The brothers began the panel by discussing their rise from YouTubers to feature filmmakers and how their roots in live action horror comedy videos aided them when working on Talk To Me. They told the audience they never intended to create content for the internet and have always had aspirations of making feature-length films.
“We felt like every single of our YouTube videos was building up to us making a film so it just felt like we were ready,” Danny said. “We kind of fell into YouTube. We never went into YouTube wanting to be YouTubers. We wanted to make feature films, but that was an avenue that gained momentum quickly, and it was so much fun.”
While they may have “fell into YouTube,” the decade spent on the platform allowed them to experiment with plenty of the techniques that they would eventually use on Talk To Me, Danny added.
“Every video we’d like to try and design up a new fight scene or a new rig or a new blood effect, or something with music,” he continued. “We always accept these challenges for ourselves, for the videos that we were making, just so we could see if it was possible to do some of these things, and then just to keep gaining experience.”
During the panel, the audience was also treated to a scene from the film, in which star Sophie Wilde becomes possessed while sitting in front of a group of other young people who are taunting her as they record videos on their phones. The scene, as well as the film in general, was inspired by a video Danny once saw of people recording as someone reacted negatively after taking drugs (and