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“The Black Phone” Co-Writer/Director Scott Derrickson & Co-Writer C. Robert Cargill Wring Our Nerves

The always versatile Ethan Hawke first teamed with writer-director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill on their 2012 horror film Sinister, in which he played a good guy protecting his family. In Derrickson and Cargill’s new horror movie The Black Phone (opening Friday), Hawke plays a very bad man. Wearing a mask and preying ...

By Hugh Hart  |  June 24, 2022
Ethan Hawke is Insanely Creepy in New “The Black Phone” Trailer

Normally we’d advise against talking to dead people on the phone, but in the case of The Black Phone, an exception must be made. Writer/director Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) has returned to his horror roots and tapped none other than Ethan Hawke to play the exquisitely creepy child killer known as The Grabber. Universal Pictures ...

By The Credits  |  April 26, 2022