The Black Phone

The Black Phone is a 2021 American coming-of-age supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, who both produced with Jason Blum. It is an adaptation of the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone, and Ethan Hawke. In the film, an abducted teenager (Thames) uses a mysterious telephone to communicate with the previous victims of his deranged captor (Hawke).
Derrickson's departure from directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness led him to The Black Phone, a project he and Cargill had already planned on making. Filming took two months in Wilmington and surrounding counties in the state of North Carolina. The film was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the United States on August 16, 2022 by Studio Distribution Services (the home media distribution joint venture between Warner Bros Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment), and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 3, 2022 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment with distribution handled by Warner Bros Home Entertainment.
== Images ==
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== Storyline ==
=== Plot ===
After being abducted by a child killer and locked in a soundproof basement, a 13-year-old boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer's previous victims.
=== Genres ===
* Horror
* Thriller
=== Home Media Rating ===
* 18 (Ireland)
* 15 (UK)
* R (US)
== Details ==
=== Country of origin ===
* United States
=== Category Number ===
* 1000811973 (US) (DVD)
* 1000811974 (US) (Blu-Ray)
=== Home Media Release Dates ===
* August 16, 2022 (US) (DVD / Blu-Ray)
* October 3, 2022 (UK) (DVD / Blu-Ray)
* October 3, 2022 (Ireland) (DVD / Blu-Ray)
== Company Credits ==
=== Production Companies ===
* Universal Pictures
* Blumhouse Productions
* Crooked Highway Productions
=== Distributors ===
* Studio Distribution Services (2022) (US) (DVD / Blu-Ray)
* Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2022) (UK) (DVD / Blu-Ray) (through Warner Bros Home Entertainment)
* Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (2022) (Ireland) (DVD / Blu-Ray) (through Warner Bros Home Entertainment)
* Warner Bros Home Entertainment (2022) (UK) (DVD / Blu-Ray) (through)
* Warner Bros Home Entertainment (2022) (Ireland) (DVD / Blu-Ray) (through)
== Technical Specs ==
=== Aspect Ratio ===
* 2.35:1
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