(That’s no spoiler. It’s the basis of the film.) And sure enough, there is an old-time black phone in the basement, and sure enough, it rings. Here, too, Derrickson builds upon Hill’s story ...

Phones in serial killer movies are usually used by the deranged hunters to taunt the police or carefully tell victims how they’ll die. But in “The Black Phone” it’s the other way around ...

It’s been some time since we entered the ... the headstrong 15-year-old Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked ...

Set in small-town Colorado in the 1970s, the story centers on 13-year-old Finney ... The Black Phone Rated R for bloody apparitions and blasphemous words. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes.

he won't avoid the fact that time has passed since the first movie, or the fact that the young cast have grown. The Black ...

"When I was eight years old, a friend of mine who ... in my neighborhood bleeding all of the time." Derrickson’s long relationship with The Black Phone – from reading the story to the eve ...

Scott Derrickson’s “The Black Phone” introduces the latest in a long line of iconic Universal Studios horror characters with the Grabber, a sadistic serial killer and part-time magician who ...

Unlike my shoe boxes — which are curated; their contents whittled down to a few, choice items — my old phone was an inadvertent time capsule. One I had no idea I was filling at the time.