(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 ...

But “scary phone calls” are a time-honored horror tradition (check out io9’s taxonomy here!). Forget cell phones, FaceTime, ...

"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 ...

The phone is dead. And it’s ringing. So reads the tagline for “The Black Phone,” Scott Derrickson ... (Mason Thames), an introverted 13-year-old who becomes The Grabber’s latest victim.

The Black Phone ... a part-time magician who uses a black van and a balloon diversion to snatch boys off the streets of '70s suburban Colorado. However, the story centers on 13-year-old Finney ...

The first trailer for Black Phone 2 has landed online, offering a chilling first look at the return of The Grabber and it looks like he has some unfinished business from beyond the ...

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 ...

The Black Phone. Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on ...

(Clockwise from top left) Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies and Miguel Mora Getty/Ken Wagon/Alex Kruk/Getty/Mark Thompson EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke ...