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The movie "Black Phone" managed to garner an almost perfect score in Grumbling Tomatoes and grossed over one hundred million dollars at the box office worldwide. We discovered that it is still possible to create amazing horror movies


It's one of the best horror movies of recent years.

Want to see

The movie "Black Phone" managed to garner an almost perfect score in Grumbling Tomatoes and grossed over one hundred million dollars at the box office worldwide.

We discovered that it is still possible to create amazing horror movies.

If you have not yet seen "Black-Phone", what are you waiting for?

Avner Shavit

17/07/2022

Sunday, 17 July 2022, 00:14

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Trailer for the movie "Black-Phone" (Tulip Media)

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Sometimes you have to start with the bottom line: "Black-Phone" is an outstanding film, and can easily be defined as one of the best horror films of recent years.



We will also add an apology: we are writing about the film with an unfashionable delay.

It was released three weeks ago, but I avoided watching it in theaters, because nowadays, almost all teenagers, go on a rampage during horror movies, without anyone restraining them.

I then waited for it to go up on iTunes and paid twenty dollars for it, more than it would have cost me a movie ticket, so there was no piracy here.



Either way, we'll move on to what really matters.

"Black Phone" was originally called "The Black Phone" and is based on a book by Joe Hill, also known as the son of Stephen King - and it's not just a trivia detail, because the film mentions some of the famous father's works, for example "It".

Like him, he follows children living in a small locality, and what turns out to be the fulfillment of their biggest nightmare.

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From "Black Phone" (Photo: Tulip Media)

This time, the scene is a Denver suburb in the late 1970s.

Seemingly it's a place where not much happens, but now something very bad is happening: a man pretending to be a magician with black balloons raises children in the middle of the street, and they never come back.

Eventually, his long hand also reaches the film’s protagonist, and he locks him in a basement where there is nothing but the black phone that this horror thriller is named after.



Life did not smile for this child anyway, who lived with his sister and his widowed and alcoholic father, who abused them.

In addition, he also suffers bullying from his classmates.

But all of this anguish, it turns out, forged him toward dealing with his kidnapper, who himself admits he has never met such a challenging child.

The young kidnapper does not intend to give up, and uses all the resourcefulness he has accumulated during his short life but learns the suffering to free himself from the basement.



Without revealing plot details that do not appear in the trailer, we will also note an important fact: the abducted child is also aided by two supernatural factors.

The first is the same black phone, which apparently went out of use, but allows him to communicate with the ghosts of the children who were there before him and did not survive, but gained useful knowledge about the kidnapper and the prison he built for them;

And the other is his sister, who inherited special powers from her late mother, and has detailed visions of the abductions.



The film was directed by Scott Drixon, who began his career with excellent horrors like "Emily Rose's Exorcism."

A few years ago he was less successful when he directed "Doctor Strange," one of Marvel's least good films, and he was supposed to direct the pledge as well, but retired due to artistic disagreements.

Surprising and mesmerizing.

Ethan Hawke in "Black-Phone" (Photo: Tulip Media)

At least according to "Black-Phone," Drixon did well with the trauma of Marvel, and henceforth I have nothing to offer but a long list of superlatives.

First of all, the film just stretches from the first second to the last, and it grips the neck breathtakingly.

The director also wrote the script based on Hill's story together with C. Robert Cargill, and they manage to build suspense, maintain it and release it in a rewarding and compelling way.

Regardless of the tension and horror, it’s nice to see how the writing closes the circles.

One of the first dialogues refers to the good hand that a hero has in a baseball game, and one of the last dialogues goes back to that and explains why it was important for us to know that.



The gameplay views are all excellent.

The character of the kidnapper is played by Ethan Hawke, who usually plays much more sympathetic characters, and here is surprising with one of his darkest - and best - roles.

The boy is played by a much lesser-known actor - Mason Thames, 15 years old. His performance is also impressive.

Bravo.



The periodic recovery is also excellent.

This is not just banal nostalgia.

"Black-Phone" manages to give a sense of time and place, and we can literally smell the suburbs of Denver of the 1970s, the homes of middle-class families at the time, the innocence and serenity above the surface and the horror beneath it.

In the reality that the film depicts, and makes relative sense to the place and period, this suburb is a world in and of itself.

The heroes did not come out of it, do not go out and will not go out, and neither should they.

All the good and evil in the universe is waiting for them in this little radius anyway.

Beautiful and frightening.

From "Black Phone" (Photo: Tulip Media)

The characters are neither horror movie clichés nor cartoons.

We love and identify with the protagonist, and he goes through an inspiring process.

Drixon also describes the relationship with his sister in a gentle and sensitive way.

It sounds weird to say this about a product that belongs to the horror genre, but "Black-Phone" is a beautiful movie.



And above all, the rarest virtue of this hit is that it is just scary.

Personally, I almost never feel horror while watching movies, but "Black-Phone" was a creepy experience for me.

Drixon shapes the nurse's visions in a frightening and mesmerizing way that reminded me of “Twin Peaks,” and there is no greater compliment than that.



Since its inception, the film has managed to garner an almost perfect score in Grumbling Tomatoes and grossed over one hundred million dollars at box office worldwide.

Drixon discovered that there is life after Marvel, and we discovered that it is still possible to create amazing horror movies.

If you have not yet seen "Black-Phone", what are you waiting for?

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