(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, and internet ghosts: today we’re looking at 10 memorable showcases of ...

"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.

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic ... happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney. 'The Black Phone' is a touching coming-of-age story masquerading as ...

His latest victim is Finney (Mason Thames), a 13-year-old boy ... feel like that time and place, at least the way that it felt to me.” Even though a film like “The Black Phone” is not ...

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 ...

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 ...