The Black Phone: Scott Derrickson’s Joe Hill film gets 2022 release

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have announced a January 28, 2022 release date for Scott Derrickson's latest horror film, The Black Phone. Based on a short story by Joe Hill, the film 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.

Ethan Hawke is playing the child killer, with Jeremy Davies as Finney's father, Madeleine McGraw as Finney's sister, and James Ransone as a character named Max.

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.

I think anything Derrickson makes is worth checking out, so I'll definitely be watching The Black Phone next year.