"Black Phone" Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
Black Phone, the new Blumhouse horror film, has exceeded "very high expectations" with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is based on Joe Hill's short story of the same name from 2004. Director Scott Derrickson and producer Jason Blum are both horror veterans, so fans are eager to see what this film has in store.
In order to launch a brand-new horror film, director Scott Derrickson returns to his roots in the horror genre and teams up once more with Blumhouse, the industry leader.
Finney Shaw, a quiet but intelligent 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a brutal killer and held captive beneath a soundproof cellar where screaming is practically useless. When a disconnected phone hanging on the wall starts to ring, Finney finds that he can hear the voices of the people who have been his abductor's victims in the past. And the victims are adamant that Finney not meet the same demise as them.
The Black Phone is produced, directed, and co-written by Scott Derrickson, the author-director of Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Marvel's Doctor Strange. It stars Mason Thames in his first-ever film role and Ethan Hawke in the most horrific role of his career.
Derrickson, Jason Blum, and C. Robert Cargill are in charge of the film's production, and Universal and Blumhouse are in charge of its distribution.
Following a flurry of raving reviews following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in late 2021, the movie now has a brand-new 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
The Black Phone is a "sleek, frantic, and violent zeitgeist of a horror film," in the words of Marisa Mirabal of IndieWire, "grabbing the audience's sentiments as quickly as the movie's villain abducts youngsters in broad daylight."
Eric Vespe of Slash Film called the villain a "mask-wearing madman" that Hawke plays with "extraordinary pleasure and dedication." Vespe also praised teenage actor Thames, saying that he "really knocks it out of the park here," carrying the picture with assurance and a feeling of realism that is necessary to make the supernatural material resonate with the audience.
Vespe went on to note that Derrickson and his team were able to expand on a charming little horror notion from a very short short tale without making the audience feel like filler.
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