27-05-2025
Aussie directors reveal shock moment moviegoers passed out during screening for their frightening horror film
They wowed audiences with their terrifying box office hit Talk to Me.
Now brothers Danny and Michael Phillippou have made a new horror blockbuster, Bring Her Back.
According to the filmmakers, the flick is so scary moviegoers have been passing out during preview screenings.
'We've had three faintings,' Danny admitted during an interview on Sunday's episode of The Project.
The twins, 32, were confronted by host Sarah Harris about their new shock movie, which is set to open in theatres nationally on Thursday.
'This film, I'm telling you, are you guys alright?' Sarah joked.
She then went to detail her alarming experience of watching the film.
'I was sitting next to a pregnant producer and I was pretty sure she was going to go into labour - they were that many [jump scares],' she said.
'All I can say is that I didn't write it,' Michael said.
'Michael directed it though,' Danny shot back.
'I gotta say it's not just schlocky horror stuff, there is quite a haunting story to it. There's a creepiness that stays with you,' Sarah went on to explain.
Bring Her back is about two orphans who find a temporary home with a foster parent who hides a terrifying secret.
The film is a follow-up for the Philippou brothers after the international success of Talk To Me.
The supernatural horror won a raft of international honours, as well as eight AACTA Awards, and made over $100million at the box office.
Oscar-nominated English actress Sally Hawkins, 48, known for her roles in Paddington, Wonka and Happy-Go-Lucky, stars in Bring Her Back.
Hawkins plays grieving mother Laura, who attempts to bring her daughter back from the dead using a paranormal ritual.
The twins re-teamed with independent production company A24 and Causeway's Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton who produced their first film.
It also stars Mischa Heywood, Sora Wong and Billy Barratt.
Mischa, 15, recently revealed that filming Bring Her Back was anything but scary.
'It was just like a big party. It was the funnest thing ever,' she said of her experience playing Catherine in the film.
'They're so full of energy and bubbly, which is great because when you're filming something so serious and devastating like Bring Her Back I guess you have to have that fun on set to lighten the mood,' Mischa told Daily Mail Australia of the YouTubers turned horror directors.
'They're just the sweetest human beings.'
