The phone is dead. And it’s ringing ... ‘That’s a script I want to write.’” “All of the ghost kids are like real kids that I knew,” said Derrickson. “The Robin Arellano character ...

The Black Phone is at its best ... Derrickson uses the film’s titular phone to conjure several inspired, memorable images, like that of a child’s ghost hanging upside down in one corner ...

Was it monstrous? Sure. Was it commonplace? More than “kids these days” will ever know. The Black Phone feels like a time machine with no interest in stereotypical nostalgia. It doesn’t look ...

“It combined a serial killer story with a ghost story in a single location ... There are light spoilers ahead for The Black Phone. When did you discover the short story, and what made you ...

But "The Black Phone," a horror thriller from Universal ... Bearded Skulls helped create the looks for these mutilated "ghost kids" who appear to Finney as if in visions.