The Review: The Black Phone

The Black Phone 8/10

A while ago I watched this movie with H&B. This movie was way better than I thought it would be because the trailer for it did not make it look all that interesting. I also like the writer of the original short story that this was based off of but they have a tendency to screw up his writing when it comes to TV series and such. This is about this little boy named Finney who gets bullied because he aura screams victim. And this is 1970 style bullying so it's pretty much close to murder whenever these kids get beat up. While this is going on there's also a bunch of kids being kidnapped and murdered and they call him The Grabber. One day Finney's little sister starts having these visions about the kidnapper and their father gets pissed off because their mother used to have psychic visions and she killed herself. So his solution to her have any psychic visions and them having a dead mama is to be physically abusive to them.

So one by one these different kids start getting kidnapped and then one day Finney ends up getting taken. He wakes up in this weird basement and the kidnapper keeps changing his mask and isn't acting mean or anything. He's bringing the boy food and such but you know this boy is not getting out of there alive. He starts to hear a phone ring and when he picks it up at first it's real staticky, but then voices start to come in and he asks who they are but they don't remember. It turns out that it's victims of the guy calling him and trying to help him get out of this place. I don't really want to spoil the ending to this movie because I really did enjoy it and this was a very fast watch. I did get pissed off and annoyed with the boy quite a few times wanted him to stand the hell up. If you want you can check this out because it is available on Peacock. I don't tend to like a lot of new horror or suspenseful movies but this one turned out to actually be enjoyable.

Mason Thames as Finney

Madeleine McGraw as Gwen

Ethan Hawke as The Grabber

Jeremy Davies as Terrence

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