Scott Derrickson's 'The Black Phone' is a movie meant for kids to encounter, enjoy, and hail as a cult classic in 20 years.
Scott Derrickson
’s "The Black Phone" is a smart, feverish horror film that will particularly appeal to teenagers. It follows in the footsteps of "Stand By Me" and "It" when Finney , an adolescent baseball player living in North Denver in 1978, begins his summer playing ball games against kids like Bruce , teenagers who by the fall will move from competitors to allies in a desperate fight for survival.
It’s a movie where teens find few saviors in the adults who surround them; they are left to settle their own scores and must find a morsel of courage in their unforgiving small town. You’re never quite sure why a scene is funny or terrifying, or if you’ve seen a story like this a million times before. And yet, "The Black Phone" harks to a vintage sensory memory, when your parents warned you what could happen if you wander too far away.
Adapted by Derrickson and Robert Cargill from Joe Hill’s short story of the same name, "The Black Phone" doesn’t try to reinvent the horror wheel. Similar to Stephen King’s method of storytelling , the narrative roots itself in Finny’s troubled homelife. His father , an out of control alcoholic still grieving his wife’s death by suicide, takes his rage out on Finney and his defiant sister Gwen .
Lately, in her visions, however, Gwen can see a black van and black balloons. It’s a description that immediately raises suspicions among the local police. A rash of kidnappings of children remains unsolved with no bodies or any other trace of them turning up. The only clues at the police’s disposal involve black balloons found at the crime scenes. For a time, the abductions barely faze Finney. He has his own demons at school in the form of bullies.
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