"The Black Phone" (2022) #blumhouse

"Superb supernatural, psychological horror".

“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” (from IMDB)

Here’s my more elongated yet still spoiler free flavour for this highly recommended psychological horror:

In a North Denver suburb of 1978 we have two aspiring little league baseball players, a schoolboy paperboy and the school’s Bruce Lee inspired and best fighter who all have one thing in common as well as being awkward, outsiders on the fringe of high school society, they all fall victim to “The Grabber”. A wraith like creature seen only in the paranormal dreams of a young girl who, along with her brother, are subjected to the brutal beatings and abuse from an alcoholic Father unable to believe his lying ears and eyes of a Mother’s daughter and her dreams of the unspeakable danger living not in her dream world, but in her local neighbourhood.

Each abducted boy seemingly faces the same fate in quick succession, whisked away by a ghoulishly masked figure before waking in a dank, dirty, dingy basement with only an equally dirty mattress, small air vent, and a forever ringing black telephone on the wall for company. However, the “phone doesn’t work” and whatever you do, “don’t go upstairs”.

The brief opening paragraphs above are taken from my spoiler free review of "The Black Phone" I originally penned and published to my Medium blog site on 17th July 2022 and which can be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack blog site and the article itself linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/the-black-phone-2022-a5900c2bda2f

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