Press materials of the movie “Black Telephone” from Galapagos Films
A shy but clever 13-year-old Finney is abducted by a sadistic killer (Hawke) and trapped in a soundproofed basement. His despairing screams will do little to little. When an unplugged telephone on the wall suddenly rings, Finney discovers that she hears the voices of her torturer’s previous victims. They are determined to save the boy from what happened to them.
Press materials of the movie “Black Telephone” from Galapagos Films
In another film they produced, the Blumhouse studio plays with the convention of horror in a characteristic way, redefining its genre frames. Terrifying and suspenseful The Black Telephone scares the ghosts of murdered children, but perhaps the most terrifying moments concern the realistic abuse of children by strangers, family members or peers. Unlike the movie Sinister , in which Derrickson told the story of a haunted house, he set out to portray a horror film deeply rooted in reality in Black Phone . It is not wild fantasy that scares us, but the awareness of the cruelty of real life that we hear about every day.
Press materials of the movie “Black Telephone” from Galapagos Films
As more children are kidnapped from the streets of North Denver, and residents feel that their children are no longer safe walking alone around the neighborhood, Finney and his younger sister Gwen feel less and less safe inside their home, where their regularly drunk father Terrence , he takes out his aggression on them. Finney, who is an introverted, quiet boy, devoid of any close friends, also experiences evil at school, where he becomes the object of mockery by his peers. The moment when he is kidnapped by a sadistic killer known as the Catcher is not the moment when the main action of the horror begins, but is another, even more extreme stage of it.
Press materials of the movie “Black Telephone” from Galapagos Films
When Finney is trapped in a soundproofed basement, the story gains a supernatural dimension – the boy begins to engage in a dialogue with the ghosts of his torturer’s former victims, which does not diminish the film’s realism. Scott Derrickson very intelligently weaves his gloomy vision of reality into the convention of horror, and his adaptation of a short story by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) very efficiently uses music, make-up and set design to faithfully set the story in the 1970s. films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Enter the Dragon reigned supreme , providing a great backdrop for this dark story. This is also the time when serial killers terrorized American society, after all. But Black phoneit is not a film that wants to tell about an old fear. It’s a story that gives us a real chill because the creators managed to get something here that we haven’t seen in a horror movie in years: to tell a story that we can actually identify with.
The movie Black Phone debuted in theaters on June 24. On October 27, it will be released on DVD and Blu-ray ™.
