Ring, ring! It's Blumhouse, hoping to kickstart a new horror franchise.
In 2021, following his split with Marvel over Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Scott Derrickson pivoted back to full-on horror with The Black Phone. Based on a 2004 short story by Joe Hill, the film was notably one of the few instances where leading man Ethan Hawke played an all-out villain. If you saw it, you wouldn’t think there was anything that suggested it could be a full-on franchise, but Blumhouse begs to differ.
The first film starred Mason Thames as Finney, a young boy abducted by Hawke’s serial killer simply known as “the Grabber.” Locked in a soundproof basement, the only hope for Finney to escape is a rotary phone in the room that allowed him to talk with the Grabber’s previous teenage victims, some of whom he knew in the days before they were ultimately killed. It definitely resonated with audiences when it came out: along with solid reviews, the movie earned $161 million worldwide .
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