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The Black Phone
TV & Satellite Week
|March 18, 2023
An effective chiller about kidnapped kids and a supernatural telephone, with a sinister Ethan Hawke

Working from a short story by Joe Hill, director Scott Derrickson reunites with horror kings Blumhouse and his Sinister star Ethan Hawke for this creepy ride. The year is 1978, and a series of children have gone missing in a quiet North Denver suburb. Soon to be next is Finney (Mason Thames), a young schoolboy who is a target for bullies and hasn’t yet learnt to stand up for himself.
Fighting in his corner are his sister Gwen (Madeleine McGraw) and a kid from his school named Robin (Miguel Cazarez Mora), who knows how to scrap and loves The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
This story is from the March 18, 2023 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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