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tonight's feature: The Black Phone (2021) on Prime
The Black Phone is perhaps more thriller than horror but an all around exceptional film. Set in the late 1970s and centered around a young boy and a murderous psychopath known as The Grabber (played with gravitas by Ethan Hawke), the plot, tone and direction take it beyond your typical horror schlock-fest and into the realm of Stephen King-like supernatural wonder, which makes total sense since it's based on a short story by King's son, writer Joe Hill.
Being a child of the 70s, I appreciate all the callbacks and soundtrack nuances stuffed in the film, even though I thought for a while the story was merely starting in some sort of flashback scene. Whatever. I thought this was a damn good, riveting, and suspenseful movie for the Halloween season. 9 vintage black rotary phones that don't work out of 10.
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