I’ve seen split opinions on director Scott Derrickson’s adaptation of the Joe Hill story The Black Phone (watch it HERE), but I thought it was one of the better horror films of the year and both of the reviews we have here on the JoBlo Network gave it a 9/10. You can read one at THIS LINK and the other HERE. So it’s cool to see that Ethan Hawke decided to dress as his villainous character The Grabber for Halloween. You can check out the images at the bottom of this article.
If you’d like to read the short story that The Black Phone is based on, it can be found in Hill’s collection 20th Century Ghosts, which you can buy HERE. The movie stars Mason Thames as
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Jeremy Davies plays Finney’s father, Madeleine McGraw is Finney’s sister, and James Ransone is in there as a character named Max.
Derrickson wrote the screenplay adaptation with his Sinister and Doctor Strange co-writer C. Robert Cargill. Derrickson and Cargill also produced The Black Phone with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Hill serves as executive producer.
Have you watched The Black Phone? If so, let us know what you thought of it by leaving a comment below. Do you agree with the 9/10 reviews, or were you one of the viewers who found the movie to be underwhelming?
Here are those images of Ethan Hawke spending Halloween as The Grabber:
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