Hello and welcome to episode number 213 of Real Life Ghost Stories.

And kick things off this week and I need to say thanks to some of our newest Patreon subscribers.

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and appreciate you every single day. And our film review this week, our film review is Talk To Me,

Talk To Me was released in 2022. It has 7.4 out of 10 on IMDB and 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embammed hand,

they become hooked on the new thrill until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying,

supernatural forces. I had seen so much about this film on like TikTok, people were talking about

it on the Facebook Supergroup, on Twitter, everywhere. And I thought to myself, I feel like

this is going to be film that I'm going to watch and be disappointed with. And boy was I wrong.

So I absolutely loved the premise of this film. So it's not really just that they find an

embammed hand. So there is this embammed hand and they have this little ritual that they do where

they hold onto the hand and say Talk To Me and the person holding the hand will see the dead

or a dead person, a deceased person and then they say I let you in and that deceased person

is able to speak through the person holding the hand. And there's all these rules around it,

like you can only hold the hand for something like 90 seconds and then you have to let the hand

go or else things will cross over onto the other side. And I really felt like it was a refreshing

concept for a film. We've had in the general zeitgeist lots of these ideas about ritual,

these games that teenagers play like if you guys would remember maybe 10 years ago,

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