Ben O'Shea-Bring Her Back: This Is The First Movie Where I Had To Turn Away.

Our movie guru Ben O'Shea was in studio with CLairsy & lisa to review the new horror flick Bring Her Back which is a companion to the director's movie Talk To Me. Ben told Clairsy & Lisa that this movie has an awful lot of blood and gore so what did he score it out of 5?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great per flick with benoshe Ben good morning. This doesn't
I wasn't trying to pass itself off as a sequel
in any way, but there is a connection to another
movie that you really liked, doesn't that? Yes, So Bring
Her Back is a new Ossie horror film from the
Philippoo brothers, Danny and Michael Philippoo, who have Hollywood at

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their feet right now. So they released back in twenty
twenty two, they released another horror flick called Talk to Me,
which I really liked it at the time. It was
low budget but really really well done. And so this
is not technically a sequel, but it does explore a
lot of the same themes of demonic possession and you know,
sort of sort of things speaking to you from beyond

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the grave, that kind of stuff. So from that perspective
of their kind of companion films, if not necessarily sequels.
And so the Philippoo brothers, so they started life as YouTubers.
They got mega famous on YouTube, millions of followers, but
it's probably unfair to call them YouTubers. They'll probably aspiring
filmmakers who didn't have a platform for their films, so

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put them on YouTube and so these were kids, you know,
they were twins from Adelaide who were in their teens
making you know, sort of their own version of Star
Wars or Harry Potter with incredible special effects and all
their mates involved. And so they wrapped up millions of
views on YouTube and came to the attention of film
studios and they thought, you know, let's give these guys

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a crack. They made Talk to Me. It was a
huge hit around the world. It won a ton of
actor awards with a no name cast, it won everything
very unusual horror, like a four million budget or something
very cheaply made. And then it was also a big
hit internationally. So A twenty four, which is you know,
one of the most sort of prestigious indie film houses

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and distributors in America, picked up the film released it
in America, and at the time, back in twenty twenty two,
it was the highest grossing horror film that A twenty
four had ever released. And so they've done some stuff
with with all of the big guys like Ariasta and
all of these kind of like the new generation of
scary movie directors, and so they obviously saw a lot
of potential in the Philippo Twins and so got on

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board for this film as well, and they turned down
a ton of offers. So they were going to do
a remake of Street Fighter, the video game adaptation, and
they had a lot of projects that Hollywood was keen
to get them to sign on the dotted line, and
they're like, no, we want to make this film that
we had already had in mind that we've been working
on for years. Not only that, we're going to refuse

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to make it in America where you would like us
to make it. Instead, we're going to make it back
in South Australia. God for them with that extra kind
of I guess muscle that A twenty four provided. They
were like, well, well, let's talk about casting guys, because
you don't just have to use no names. Maybe we
can help you cast someone, you know, with a bit
more sort of international appeal. So they have got two

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time Oscar nominees Sally Hawkins real yeah, which so you
know she probably thought that, you know, sort of hooking
up with the fish in the shape of water was
the weirdest thing she's going to do in her career.
No much weirder is in bring her back. But to
think that they got Sally Hawkins in the bush of
South Australia to make a horror film is incredible. It's
a great thing for Australin and filmmaking. Now, all that said,

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I will say to everybody listening today, if you're a
little bit squeamish about gory scenes on screen, this is
not the movie for you, because it is some of
the most hectic gore that I have ever seen. Like,
and you've seen a bit, it's when they it's when

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there's you know, these people are possessed by the Dean
and the stuff that they do and about oh no, no,
And it's it's not that they're necessarily, you know, sort
of doing things to other people. It's what they do
to themselves. Okay, that's the stuff that's really hard to watch.

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Leaders of Fake Blood, Oh my gosh. There was many
Leaders of Fake Blood and I'm not even going to
describe it because it is so gross some of this stuff.
And I've seen a lot of horror movies. It's not
really my genre of choice, but I have to watch
them for work, and I've seen it all, but this
is probably the first movie where I actually had to
turn away, like I had to cover my eyes. I

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really thought about walking out at one point, like it
is confronting. OK. And so fans of this genre will
watch this, they will lap it up because they'll be thinking,
you know, you can't have seen it all right, if
you're a fan of this genre. But the Philippines have
given sequences of horror and gore that I have never
seen the like of. And so if you're a fan

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of this sort of stuff, you'll you'll be just frothing
over it. The who wonder about the kind of mind
that comes up with I am to be the guys
And I was like, you see, you are actually sick
in your head. Oh, they loved it fantastic. And so
the film itself is about these two two kids, sort
of half siblings, whose dad dies at the start of

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the film, so they get put into the foster system
and they get fostered out to this woman who seems
like a lovely maternal type living in a house in
the bush, which is Sally Hawks's character, but straight away
there are some red flags. She's maybe a bit too nice,
and there's also this other kid in the house who's
nonverbal and is just weird. He's just hanging around all
the time, and as the film goes along, you start

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to realize that she lost her own daughter years ago,
and so maybe she sees a chance to maybe tap
into something a bit supernatural, a bit of a ritual situation,
to try and bring her daughter back to life. And
maybe these foster kids are gonna play a role, a
sacrificial kind of role. And so the little girl who

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is kind of the central character, Piper, is played by
Sra Wong new Come much never acted before, visually impaired actor.
She's amazing. Sally Hawkins is amazing. English actor. Barrett plays
the old older brother. He is also great. So the
performances are really good, cinematography is amazing, it's very inventive.
The scenes of kind of the supernatural stuff are really

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interestingly done. But gosh, it's a nightmare fuel when you're
talking about some of the some of the gory scenes
in this film. We know Sally can speak guppy or
she can do an email or whatever. How does she
go ac She's she's really good. Yeah, yeah, like it's
it's a little bit of a Britishness still to it.
But you know, there's there's so many kind of expats

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and poems and indeed, and she leans into it, like
if if you thought that Sally Hawkins is just coming here,
getting a paycheck and phoning it in. She leans into this.
It's crazy how many sounds like it has Christian Anderson
story gone mad? Are you? Oh my gosh, it's not breadcrumbs.

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It's likely three and a half and half. But be warned. Okay,
thanks for the blood warning. M