It’s poetic justice at the box office for director Scott Derrickson and his longtime writing partner C. Robert Cargill as their latest collaboration, the horror film The Black Phone, has passed $100 million at the global box office.
Derrickson and Cargill dropped out of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which would’ve marked their second partnership with Marvel, in favor of the significantly smaller-scale Blumhouse chiller.
Based on the short story by Joe Hill, The Black Phone was released exclusively in theaters at a time when most horror films are being offloaded to streaming.
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It reunited Derrickson with his Sinister star Ethan Hawke, who plays a terrifying child abductor called The Grabber in the film.
The film synopsis;
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who’s being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer’s previous victims — and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Source: Moneycentral
