A lone rotary phone rings in a derelict basement. Would you have the guts to answer the call? Doing so might be the only way that Finney Blake (Mason Thames), a teenage boy who’s been abducted by a masked figure known as “the Grabber” (Ethan Hawke), makes it home alive in The Black Phone. Directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister), this supernatural horror flick is now streaming on Netflix.
Based on author Joe Hill’s short story, The Black Phone follows siblings Finney and Gwen (Madeleine McGraw), who live in a quiet Colorado suburb in 1978. Their community has been rocked by a series of kidnappings, which local authorities have attributed to a serial killer. As the missing posters begin piling up around town, Finney is taken by the Grabber and trapped in a basement with seemingly nothing but a bare mattress on the floor and a black rotary phone on the wall. The sadistic killer insists there’s no way out. But as Finney learns more about the Grabber’s haunting history, Gwen — who inherited their late mother’s clairvoyant powers — begins having strange dreams, which might be the key to saving her brother’s life.
The Black Phone’s cast includes Thames (How to Train Your Dragon), Hawke (Leave the World Behind), McGraw (The Curse of the Necklace), Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan), James Ransone (It Chapter Two), E. Roger Mitchell (Insidious: The Red Door), Troy Rudeseal (The Bay), and Miguel Cazarez Mora (So Help Me Todd).
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