The phone is dead. And it’s ringing.
Director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Doctor Strange) is returning to his terror roots and has partnered again with Blumhouse for this summer's horror thriller, The Black Phone.
A new featurette video has been released this week, wherein star Ethan Hawke offers up details on the film's villain, taking on the most terrifying role of his career, and even draws a comparison between The Black Phone and Derrickson’s Sinister. Watch it below!
"It's like a sibling movie to Sinister that's going to a deeper, stranger place," Hawke teases.
The Black Phone follows Finney Shaw (Mason Thames), 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.
Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies and James Ransone also star.
The film’s screenplay is by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill (Doctor Strange, Sinister franchise), based on the award-winning short story by Joe Hill from his New York Times bestseller 20th Century Ghosts.
The film is produced by Derrickson and Cargill’s Crooked Highway and presented by Universal and Blumhouse. Jason Blum, Derrickson and Cargill are producers on the film, which is executive produced by Ryan Turek and Christopher H. Warner.
The Black Phone comes to theaters on June 24th, 2020.
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