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Jun 22, 2022 · Meanwhile, The Black Phone ’s one truly creepy and fascinating element—the Grabber himself—is oddly sidelined, spending much of the film shirtless, lounging in a chair in his kitchen, out of earshot from Finney.
Jun 23, 2022 · His evil is condensed almost entirely into a single shot, as he sits silently in a chair at the top of the stairs, shirtless with his broad, muscled shoulders and a belt in his hand.
- 3 min
- Clarisse Loughrey
Ethan Hawke was great, him sitting in the chair with no shirt on was scary. I liked how they started showing the kids from the phone but Finn couldn't see them. Max was great.
- Ethan Hawke Is Dazzling as A Vicious Masked Killer.
- Hill and Cargill's Clever Story Is Undone by Derrickson's Lack of Vision.
- Supporting Players Madeleine Mcgraw and James Ransone Steal Scenes.
- Misplaced Nostalgia Ruins The Black Phone.
- The Black Phone Can Be ignored.
If you've been watching Moon Knight,you know Hawke can exude creep vibes even through a smile. Here, he takes his creep show a step further by covering his face for much of the film. When interacting with his captive, The Grabber wears alternating masks, chalk white with heinously twisted features. Each hints at a side of this volatile monster: jol...
By making Finney the least likely boy to survive, the tension is high from the end of act one. The screenplay then makes a grim game out of Finney's flustered attempts to escape, often aided by a cryptic phone call. The audience is invited along to uncover clues, potential tools, and cruel traps. All of this culminates in a David-versus-Goliath fin...
Ransone, who also appeared in Sinister, pops up for a brief thread about a local weirdo who thinks he can unlock the case of this serial child snatcher. Hawke's intensity is matched by the frenetic energy of Ransone, who brings a lightness amid long stretches of deeply dark. The other bright spot in The Black Phoneis McGraw as the curse-spitting ch...
With Finney's characterization paper-thin, the film relies less on the audience's attachment to the character than on the memory of this kind of time, this kind of place. For some of us, that will mean actually having been there, in an era when Stranger Danger lore was on the evening news and was the source of school gossip and sleepover horror sto...
In the end, The Black Phone feels like a miss almost across the board. For years, Hill has been forging his own brand of horror with books and interesting adaptations (Horns, NOS4A2, Locke & Key). This is the weakest yet. A story that feels like he was playing in his father's sandbox to create, trying to formulate something grittier and his own, is...
Jun 24, 2022 · There’s the scene with Ethan sitting shirtless, waiting for Finney. Nothing happens, but so much happens, and it’s very unsettling. It wasn’t in the short story.
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Ethan Hawke was JACKED for this movie! I saw him sitting there with his shirt off and said "DAMN!" Which makes sense if you are going to kidnap teen boys and beat them to death.
Jul 1, 2022 · In the supernatural horror film The Black Phone, a new box-office hit, a sadistic child abductor and killer known as “the Grabber” (Ethan Hawke) terrorizes a quaint suburb with a theatrical...
