Hello everyone, it’s your resident horror buff back with yet another horror movie review. This time, we’re talking about The Black Phone, Blumhouse’s latest and one more stepping stone in Ethan Hawke’s return to cinematic masterpieces.
The Black Phone follows Finney Shaw (Mason Thames), a shy 13-year-old boy. He’s kidnapped by The Grabber (Ethan Hawke), a sadistic killer responsible for the disappearances of several boys in town, and held in a basement. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, Finney discovers the voices on the other end of the line are previous victims, and they are hell-bent on making sure what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
The Black Phone is better than I expected, and that surprised me. I thought maybe it was going to be just...