Last week, we learned that director Scott Derrickson’s adaptation of the Joe Hill story The Black Phone would be getting a Digital release today, August 12th – and as of today the movie is also streaming exclusively on the Peacock service! It’s on there now for Peacock subscribers to enjoy.
We have two reviews of The Black Phone here on the JoBlo Network, and both of them are 9/10s. You can read one at THIS LINK and the other HERE.
If you’d like to read the short story that The Black Phone is based on, it can be found in Hill’s collection 20th Century Ghosts, which you can buy HERE. The movie stars Mason Thames as
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Jeremy Davies plays Finney’s father, Madeleine McGraw is Finney’s sister, and James Ransone is in there as a character named Max.
Derrickson wrote the screenplay adaptation with his Sinister and Doctor Strange co-writer C. Robert Cargill. Derrickson and Cargill also produced The Black Phone with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Hill serves as executive producer.
If you don’t care about the Digital or Peacock release and are just waiting for the movie to reach physical media, you don’t have much longer to wait for that. It’s coming to Blu-ray and DVD on August 16th. Copies can be pre-ordered at THIS LINK.
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