In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to load up our phone with dirt and stay way from the van with black balloons as we review the 2022 horror film “The Black Phone”…
Back in 2004, Joe Hill was a struggling novelist who just couldn’t seem to get one his books purchased by a publisher.
Despite being horror icon Stephen King’s son, Hill was determined to strike out on his own, which is why he changed to a different last name from his father. Rather than write another novel, Hill decided to develop a group of short stories into a single collection with one of the stories centered around a little boy who gets kidnapped and he escapes thanks to help from a supernatural phone that connects him with the killer’s past victims who desperately want him to survive.
Years later, director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill got interested in adapting the story into a feature film, which required them to build out the story a little further from Hill’s original work.
What resulted was a terrifying vision about a maniac called The Grabber, who kidnaps and murders children in Denver in the 1970s and one boy along with his sister who will do anything to survive him…
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to load up our phone with dirt and stay way from the van with black balloons as we review the 2022 horror film “The Black Phone”…
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