Ethan Hawke is having one hell of a year! With his two current projects Moon Knight and The Northman dominating TV and cinema screens already, you’d think he’d be all done for the year. But oh no! Get ready to be absolutely creeped out as he plays a potentially sadistic killer in new horror The Black Phone.
Watch the latest trailer here…
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Directed by Scott Derrickson, who is no stranger to horror having helmed 2005’s The Exorcism of Emily Rose and 2012’s Sinister, the film is co-written by Derrickson alongside C. Robert Cargill (who worked with Derrickson on Doctor Strange, and the Sinister franchise), and is based on the award-winning short story by Joe Hill from his New York Times bestseller 20th Century Ghosts.
Alsongside Hawke (The Purge), the movie stars Madeline McGraw (The Mitchells vs the Machines), Jeremy Davies (Sleepy Hollow TV series), James Ransone (It: Chapter Two) and Mason Thames in his first ever role as Finney Shaw.
The Black Phone will be in Cinemas on 24 June 2022.