https://variety.com/2021/film/news/ethan-hawke-the-black-phone-blumhouse-1235049261/
shareCan’t wait for this one!
shareHoping this delivers.
Scott Derrickson has directed a number of good Horror films before namely, Sinister (2012), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) and Hellraiser: Inferno (2000).
Just watched it and it’s an excellent horror thriller.
Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is an instantly iconic and memorable antagonist.
But best of all is it just has an excellent sense of dread and doesn’t rely on cheap jump scares. This lives up to the buzz and positive reviews it’s been getting.
Wooooooot. I planning to see it this friday. And your confirmation that it doesn't rely on cheap jump scares is surprising, but very welcome. Can't wait!
shareNice, hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
There are only a couple of jump scares (and one of them got me big time) but it’s much more reliant on it’s atmospherics, dread and suspense for the frights.
Scott Derrickson is definitely right at home with the horror genre.
Whoa...Just got home from seeing it. Yeah. that was....really well done. I need to go read the short story now, because the movie itself was so well-constructed. I def screamed a couple of times (I'm pretty jumpy tbh), but the story itself is sound. Progression was excellent, both in terms of pacing, as well as believability. Definitely impressed. There wasn't really any wasted space imo.
shareAgreed, I gave it 5 stars on Letterboxd, couldn’t really find any flaws with it on a first viewing. I’ll be surprised if anything tops it this year in terms of pure horror thrills.
shareI've been thinking about it repeatedly, and frankly, I thought it's such a tightly constructed film. I read the short story, and the movie pretty much kept everything in the story as-is but made it so much more. The abuse angle, and the protag's narrative arc in learning to stand up for himself is all new, and it really makes the climax all the more potent. Very cool. Usually a lot of stuff gets changed in a movie adaptation (like Antlers), but here, it really just expanded on it all.
Yeah, we'll see if a few of the others I'm looking forward to stacks up...but I'm also thinking not. lol
thanks.
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