PREVIEW: The Black Phone (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ethan Hawke (Sinister), Mason Thames (film debut), Madeleine McGraw (American Sniper), Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan), James Ransone (It Chapter Two), E. Roger Mitchell (Triple 9)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange), director, writer, producer; C. Robert Cargill (Sinister), writer, producer; Jason Blum (Get Out), producer; Brett Jutkiewicz (Ready or Not), cinematographer; Frédéric Thoraval (Promising Young Woman), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the 1970s, 13-year-old Finney (Thames) is kidnapped by a serial killer known as “The Grabber” (Hawke), and held in a soundproof basement. There, he finds a disconnected phone which appears to transmit the voices of the killer’s previous young victims, which try to help him escape…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Director Scott Derrickson returns to the realm of horror with this creepy tale of child abduction, which sees him reunite with Sinister star Ethan Hawke as an iconic new movie monster.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 22ND JUNE 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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