‘Black phone’: monsters, traumas and a basement

‘black phone’

Address: Scott Derrickson

interpreters: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies

Year: 2021

premiere: 24 June 2022

★★★

Like the movie ‘Sinister’ (2012) that made it a touchstone in modern horror cinema. Scott Derrickson It talks about children struggling for survival and children turned into ghosts, contains footage from disturbing home videos, makes obvious allusions. stephen king dream – the author of the story on which it is based, Joe HillKing’s son and contains a great piece of art. Ethan Hawke, here on the skin of the masked killer who sows panic in a community, and above all in the youth who was abducted in the basement.

‘Black Phone’ A classic supernatural tale of the dead returning to the world of the living to settle their accounts, it can also be described as a portrait of lost innocence—especially stolen—and transition to adulthood, and a work of fraternal solidarity. and the impact of parental abuse on children, as a cinematic nostalgia exercise and a religious allegory.

Ultimately, the film works as a link to unexplored ideas, as Derrickson manages to wrap the footage in an atmosphere of menace and punctuate it with powerful outbursts of violence, while displaying stunning visuals and precise camera movements. connected to each other. It’s not clear to him whether his purpose is to think about what makes us monsters or just to scare us.

Source: Informacion

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