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The Black Phone
Directed byScott Derrickson
Screenplay by
Based on"The Black Phone"
by Joe Hill
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBrett Jutkiewicz
Edited byFrédéric Thoraval
Music byMark Korven
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • September 25, 2021 (2021-09-25) (Fantastic Fest)
  • June 24, 2022 (2022-06-24) (United States)
Running time
103 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$16–18 million
Box office$10.3 million[2]

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror movie directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. It is based on the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone, and Ethan Hawke. In the movie is about a kidnapped teenager (Thames) and how he uses a mysterious phone to talk with the dead victims of his kidnapper "The Grabber" (Hawke).

It was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 24, 2022. It had many positive reviews from critics.

References

  1. "The Black Phone (15)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved June 24, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "The Black Phone". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved June 25, 2022.