The Black Phone

2022 Drama
76%

In 1970s North Denver, a masked predator nicknamed The Grabber poses as a magician to lure unsuspecting children into the back of his van. Five youngsters vanish without trace despite the best efforts of Detectives Wright and Miller to identify a prime suspect. Their enquiries lead to Gwen Shaw, an abused girl who claims to have prophetic dreams about the missing boys. Horror, starring Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke, Madeleine McGraw and Jeremy Davies

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by Brian Lloyd
Star Rating:

Ethan Hawke is the best thing about 'The Black Phone'

A quiet town in Colorado is rocked by a series of child abductions carried out by a figure known only as the Grabber (Ethan Hawke). When Finney (Mason Thames) is taken by him, his sister (Madeline McGraw) tries desperately to find him through disturbing visions she receives at night. Finney also has help in another form - a black phone in the cellar where he's being kept that has the Grabber's other victims at the other end of the line...

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