The Black Phone, 2022. Directed by Scott Derrickson. Starring Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone. SYNOPSIS: An abducted teenager uses a mysterious phone to communicate with previous victims of his captor. When one looks back at Ethan Hawke’s career, which spans an impressive four decades, it’s quite obvious that the […]
A sequel to The Black Phone is already being discussed, reveals Scott Derrickson
The Black Phone has been one of the success stories of 2022. In a box-office landscape still fluctuating following the pandemic, Scott Derrickson’s creepy horror has managed to dial into $152 million at the worldwide box-office, and so it’s no surprise to learn that conversations have already begun regarding a sequel. To coincide with The […]
DC League of Super-Pets lacks bite at the box office while Nope slips to second
The box-office played out as predicted over the weekend, although DC League of Super-Pets wasn’t a pedigree performer, taking the #1 spot with a low-end of expectations $23M debut. With the vocal talents of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Natasha Lyonne, DC League of Super-Pets (read our ★★★ review here) underwhelmed to the tune of […]
Movie Review – The Black Phone (2022)
The Black Phone, 2022. Directed by Scott Derrickson. Starring Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone, Michael Banks Repeta, Kellan Rhude, J. Gaven Wilde, E. Roger Mitchell, Brady Ryan, Jacob Moran, Jordan Isaiah White, Spencer Fitzgerald, Kristina Arjona, and Tristan Pravong. SYNOPSIS: After being abducted by a child killer and locked in […]
Minions: The Rise of Gru breaks 4th of July box office record
The last of the high-profile pandemic delayed blockbusters finally arrived in cinemas over the weekend, and Minions: The Rise of Gru celebrated its two-year wait by breaking the July 4th box-office record with a weekend take of $127.9 million. Animated family fare has been slow out of the blocks at the pandemic-era box-office, with solid […]
It’s a box office tie as Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick take $30.5 million over the weekend
Number nerds will know that the last time a weekend box-office race was this close also involved a Tom Cruise movie, when Minority Report and Lilo & Stitch opened to $36M back in 2002. Well he’s at it again this weekend, because in its fifth weekend of release Top Gun: Maverick tied at the top […]
Ethan Hawke introduces The Grabber in The Black Phone featurette
Ahead of its release later this month, a new featurette has been released for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Joe Hill’s short horror story The Black Phone, which sees star Ethan Hawke discuss his terrifying character “The Grabber”; watch it here… Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic […]
Ethan Hawke is a sadistic serial killer in new trailer for The Black Phone
Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Scott Derrickson’s upcoming horror The Black Phone. An adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story of the same name, the film follows Finney (Mason Thames), a 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a sadistic serial killer (Ethan Hawke) and discovers he can hear voices of the murderer;s previous […]
The Horror Movies To See In 2022
Hasitha Fernando on the top ten horror movies to see in 2022… Ah yes, here we all thought that 2020 was the worst year we endured when we welcomed 2021, but boy were we wrong. 2021 saw the world populace grapple with the worst wave of the still raging COVID-19 pandemic leaving us all masked […]
Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone gets a creepy retro poster
Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone might have been put back on the receiver for another four months having been delayed from its intended February release, but if that means we get more marketing that’s as creepily effective as this retro poster then you won’t find us hanging up on this horror just yet. Having quit […]