The embalmed, ceramic-covered hand in Talk To Me checks a lot of boxes as a standout horror movie prop. It’s super creepy in appearance, and within the film, it comes packaged with both a set of ...

The Babadook book. There is a long and robust history, and for Danny and Michael Philippou’s critically acclaimed Talk To Me, the chilling heart of everything is an embalmed hand.

Said the filmmakers, Michael Philippou: And then the hand, it took a lot to find the just the pose. We had do so many different sculpts of the shape of the hand. It was really hard to find, actually.