The Black Phone - 2021 film
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The Black Phone - 2021 film
Rating in IMDB : 7.0 / 10 from 69,053 users
Director: Scott Derrickson
Creator: Joe Hill, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill
Actors: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke
Is The Black Phone based on a true story?
Scott Derrickson (Director) inspired from his childhood experience.Most of the part, Derrickson's movie adaptation of The Black Phone true to the summary.However, the script writer and director needed to extend the story to make The Black Phone fit a full-length film.
What is The Black Phone about 2022?
Based on a small story by Joe Hill, with whom Derrickson had already talk about possible sequel ideas previously to release, The Black Phone is the story of Finney Shaw, a shy and clever 13 year boy who kidnap by a sadistic slayer and snareed in a soundproof ground floor.
Let's talk about the black phone
The black phone is directed by Scott Derrickson and written by him and see robert cargill based on a short story by joe hill after being abducted by a child killer. And locked in a soundproof basement. A 13 year old boy, starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims. I love scott derrickson's horror films movies like sinister and the exorcism of emily rose.
I think he makes really good horror films for adults. That are very smart that have limited jump scares and when there are jump scares they're really strong. And they're rarely ever false scares and the black phone was something. I was very excited to see sinister was one of my favorite horror movies period.
And i think emily rose is extremely underrated and so walking into the black phone this movie had a lot to prove. And I like it more than both of those films. I think it's a better movie than sinister. i think sinister is awesome. So that's saying something man.
This movie has so much going for it in every way. And it's also a production that. I imagine wasn't exactly easy to shoot it's majority child actors the casting process is always extremely important. But even more. So when you know that the quality of your film is going to hinge on the ability of a child actor and everyone in.
This movie is really good in particular mason thames who plays finney and madeline mcgraw who plays his sister. Gwen and i'm not going to get too into the plot. Because I honestly didn't know anything about the movie except for Ethan hawk plays a child killer and that was enough to get me in the theater.
Of course plus the the talent who made the film the film has so much going for it. The 1970s setting for instance there's a lot of fun easter eggs of old tv shows. And movies and things like that. And i think it would have been easy to depict this era as very innocent and ethan hawk's character known as the grabber.
Being this one thing that's just destroying all this innocence but everyone in the movie is going through some [ __ ] kids at school. Pummel other kids bloody there's fights constantly abusive parents. It's not depicted with rose-colored glasses. And i really like that this movie's dark and it goes places that surprise me.
And that genuinely unsettled me ethan hawk is amazing. He's so good it's been a long time since there's been a new masked killer of some kind in a film. that had any impact on me whatsoever but the grabber is awesome. And i love what they did with the masks there's changing masks constantly that sort of suit his mood at various times.
And i thought that was brilliant real characters they don't feel like stock characters. The scares feel real and it's not just like constant jump scares every 10 minutes it's situational horror it's terror. You feel like bad things are happening to people that you care about. And there's a handful of jump scares that work very well.
One in particular that really got me gave me a really good jolt but you're scared because of excellent sound design a musical score by mark. Coven who's amazing and the fact that you really want this kid to escape and there's stakes built up around. How many kids you know did not escape and every time that phone rings and you think he might get a new clue of how he could escape.
You want him to do it and you're caring about him along the way without getting too much into the plot. Because i didn't know this going in there is a character in the movie who has dreams that are integral to the story. And the way they shot those dreams was sort of to look like old film
And it really felt like sinister to me. It felt like connective tissue to that movie and i thought it worked really well. But they do some really cool things. With those dreams connecting them to reality towards the third act of the movie. That i imagine was very difficult to accomplish on the page and make feel natural you guys should really check out.
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