From time to time, a horror movie that causes furor among the spectators. If this year is being The sinners (2025), Michael B. Jordan’s film, and just a few months ago Demi Moore conquered everyone with The substance (2024), in 2022 there was a tape of the genre that became An unexpected success: It’s about Black Phone, led by a gloomy Ethan Hawke and? He has arrived in Netflix.
The film directed by Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) has settled as one of the best horror films of the decade until now, which added to the enormous disturbance that caused them in the big screen, do it One of the essential tapes For horror cinema lovers. With your arrival to the streaming platform catalog, it is a good time to see it for the first time (or again).
What is ‘Black Phone’, the horror movie?
Black Phone It is one of the best known projects of the Blumhouse horror film producer, and adapt the short but terrifying homonymous story written by Joe Hill, Stephen King son. In this one -hour and 40 -minute tape there is a frantic and spooky counterreloj with Finney (Mason Thames), a teenager who is kidnapped for the gloomy serial murderer known as ‘El Raptor’ (Ethan Hawke).
In it Colorado of the 70s, This masking has already killed several teenagers after locking them in an soundproofed basement, where Finney also ends. The shy 13 -year -old girl seems destined to end up as her unfortunate predecessors, but suddenly a Broken phone begins to sound … and through him hey all the voices of the previous victims, who will try to prevent him from ending the same.
The two main protagonists of Black Phone son Mason Thames, who will premiere the live-action of How to train your dragon This same year, and Hollywood Ethan Hawke star. They also have a crucial role in the movie Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies (Save Soldier Ryan) y James Ransone (who already worked with Scott Derrickson in Sinister), among other actors and actresses.
The success of the film and its sequel: arrives ‘Black Phone 2’
The film had a budget of about 18.8 million dollars, Although Blumhouse saw how that figure multiplied almost ten, since Black Phone became a resounding success at the box office and got raise more than 160 million of dollars around the world. Such was the phenomenon that, just a few months after its premiere, it was confirmed that there would be a sequel, which arrives this year to cinemas.
Black Phone 2 It plans its premiere in the film rooms of Spain next October 24, and the main protagonists of the original delivery will return for this sequel; Scott Derrickson also returns, which this 2025 has already released another movie (The secret abyss). To entertain the wait, you can see the First tape in Netflix.
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