A24's Highest-Rated & Highest-Grossing Horror Movie Resurfaces On Streaming Charts

Talk to Me has been resurrected and has resurfaced on streaming charts. The A24 horror film was originally released in theaters in July 2023 and saw quite a lot of success with critics and at the box office, breaking numerous records for the indie studio.

Now, two years later, Talk to Me ranks 10th on HBO Max’s Top 10 movies in the United States for today, October 13, and is expected to climb the chart in the coming days. It currently ranks below The Substance, The Alabama Solution, Superman (2025), Bring Her Back, Corpse Bride, Freddy vs. Jason, Scooby-Doo (2002), Beetlejuice, and Friday the 13th (2009).

Written and directed by Danny and Michael Philippou in their feature debuts, the A24 horror film follows a group of teenage friends who stumble upon a way to summon spirits through an embalmed hand and become addicted to the rush, until one séance crosses a line and unleashes horrors beyond their control.

Talk to Me‘s cast includes Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Dhanji, Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings), Zoe Terakes, Chris Alosio, Marcus Johnson, Alexandria Steffensen, Sunny Johnson, Ari McCarthy, and Jacek Koman.

Premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival in 2022, Talk to Me reviews praised its compelling story and striking practical effects, delivering a chilling modern horror tale rooted in timeless genre traditions. With a 94% score, Talk to Me is tied with X (2022) as A24’s highest-rated horror movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

Students sit around a table with a creepy hand in Talk to Me

Released in theaters in 2023, Talk to Me went on to make $92 million at the box office against its small $4.5 million budget, surpᴀssing Hereditary (2018), which made $90.2 million, to become A24’s highest-grossing horror film, a тιтle that it still holds to this day.

Talk to Me has surfaced on the streaming chart seemingly because of Danny and Michael Philippou’s new A24 horror movie, Bring Her Back, which was released on HBO Max on October 3 and currently ranks fourth on their Top 10 movies. In turn, audiences are seemingly being inspired to revisit the Philippou brothers’ first film, Talk to Me.

Audiences are also seemingly revisiting Talk to Me in the lead-up to Halloween, a peak time for horror movie viewing. That, combined with Bring Her Back‘s debut, has created the perfect storm for Talk to Me to make a resurgence on HBO Max’s streaming chart.