The other day, a 1980s retro-style poster was released for the upcoming Scream movie, and the ’80s style felt out of place for me in that case since the Scream franchise only goes back to 1996. Now a retro-style poster has been released for director Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone, and going retro for this one makes total sense because the film is set in the 1970s. You can check out the new poster below.
Based on a short story by Joe Hill (it’s in his collection 20th Century Ghosts, which you can buy HERE), The Black Phone 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. Ethan Hawke takes on the role of the film’s villain, who is called The Grabber and wears a mask designed by Tom Savini.
Derrickson wrote the screenplay adaptation with his Sinister and Doctor Strange co-writer C. Robert Cargill. Derrickson and Cargill are also producing The Black Phone with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Hill serves as executive producer.
Our own Gaius Bolling had the chance to watch The Black Phone a while back and gave the film a 9/10 review. You can read what he had to say about it at THIS LINK.
Originally set to reach theatres on January 28, the film moved to February 4 and was recently pushed back to June 24, 2022.