THE BLACK PHONE

Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeline McGraw, James Ransone

Director Scott Derrickson gave audiences a chill with his film Sinister in 2012. He’s brought back his co-writer and actors Ethan Hawke and James Ransone for The Black Phone. Derrickson presents every parent’s worst nightmare – having your child kidnapped in broad daylight. Derrickson sets the film in 1978 North Denver where kids ride bikes in the street, walk home from school, and cheer each other on at baseball. It should be an ideal time, but there’s town gossip of a man known as “The Grabber” who has been kidnapping local boys. He’s played by Ethan Hawke. A young girl named Gwen (Madeline McGraw) has dreams about the Grabber and the details alarm police who haven’t made specific elements of the crimes public. Her brother Finney (Mason Thames) becomes the Grabber’s next victim. Finney is resourceful trying to find a way out of the Grabber’s basement, while Gwen uses the clues in her dreams to find him. Now on 4K, BluRay, DVD, and streaming on Peacock

Here’s my review